SYMPHONIC SUITE "A RIVER, FLOWING BACK TO THE OCEAN" / 交響組曲 "川、いつか海へ" / Kawa, Itsuka Umi e Original Soundtrack

Performer: Fumiaki Miyamoto (Ob) Track 2,8 / Tatsuya Yabe (Vn) Track, 4,8 / Yoko Hasegawa* (Vc) Track 6,8 / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
* by the courtesy of Victor Entertainment, Inc.

All Composed and Conducted by Taro Iwashiro (IT'S 067)

Album Produced by Taro Iwashiro / Kei Mori (Sony Music Japan International)

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Akira Fukada
Recorded at NHK 509 Recording Studio
Recorded from April to September in 2003

Mixed at NHK HD520 Studio and Sony Music Studios Tokyo  from April to September in 2003
Mastered by Koji Suzuki at Sony Music Studios Tokyo on October 16 in 2003

Management for Taro Iwashiro:
Takahiko Kodaka for Hori Pro Inc. / Akiko Takakuwa for T-Tone Inc.

Score Preparation: Hustle Copy Inc.

Design: Aya Morita (Sony Music Communications)
Back Cover Photo: Shinsuke Yamamoto

Executive Producer:
Kazumaro Miyashita (Japan Broadcast Publishing CO.,LTD)

Special thanks to...
Masae Ichiki (NHK)
Satoko Fukumoto (NHK)
Akira Imamura, Michio Takemori (Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra)
Shima Yoshioka, Chie Amano, Mariko Iitaka (JAPAN ARTS)
Takeshi Watanabe (Victor Entertainment Inc.)
Toshiki Muto, Shinichi Togami, Motoichi Sugita, Miki Takeuchi, Go Haraga, Noritaka Suzuki, Kenichi Shigematsu, Michiko Oka (Sony Classical & Jazz)

Taro would like to thank:
Hisashi Nozawa and his family (also to Yu-Chang), all of my lovable friends and my dearest family.
of course, to my wife, Shinobu.

Endless thanks to...
all the staff of "A River, Flowing Back To The Ocean" Production Team for NHK

Extra thanks to...
Fumiaki Miyamoto, Tatsuya Yabe and Yoko Hasegawa

This album is dedicated to everyone who listen to this album.