Symphonic Best Selection / Joe Hisaishi / シンフォニック・ベスト・セレクション / 久石譲 / Symphonic Best Selection / Joe Hisaishi

*Note: The bandoneón is misspelled in the booklet with the accent over the wrong vowel. Hong-Jae Kim is misspelled in the inserts.

"Nausicaä Suite"
1. Legend of the Wind
2. The Road to the Valley
3. Bird Person

"I am"
4. DREAM

"MY LOST CITY"
5. PROLOGUE ~ DRIFTING IN THE CITY
6. 1920 ~ AGE OF ILLUSION
7. SOLITUDE ~ IN HER...
8. CAPE HOTEL ~ MADNESS
9. Winter's Dream
10. TANGO X.T.C.

"MELODY FAIR"
11. Kiki's Delivery Service
12. Resphoina
13. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
14. Tasmania Story


All Composed & Arranged by Joe Hisaishi

Recorded at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Mixed at Wonder Station, Tokyo
Mastered at Onkio Haus, Tokyo
Produced by Naoki Tachikawa
Composed & Arranged by Joe Hisaishi
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Mike Jarratt (Abbey Road Studio)
Mastering Engineer: Yuka Koizumi (Onkio Haus)
Artist Management: Daisuke Satoh (Wonder City)
A & R: Shin Miyoshi (Toshiba EMI), Kentaro Mizusawa (Toshiba EMI), Akira Watanabe (Fujipacific Music Inc.)

Chief Producer: Tadashi Hirakata (Toshiba EMI)
Associate Producer: Junya Nakasone (Toshiba EMI)

Executive Producers: Ichiro Asatsuma (Fujipacific Music Inc.), Kei Ishizaka (Toshiba EMI)

AD, Design & Photography: Masaru Kawahara

Musicians are:
Joe Hisaishi/Piano
Kim Hong Jae/Strings, Conductor
Yasushi Toyoshima/Violin Solo (N.J.P.)
Mitsuo Ikeda/Bandonéon
New Japan Philharmonic

Special Thanks: Takayoshi Kubo (Music Office Sautille), Motokazu Arai, Tatsuo Shinohara (New Japan Philharmonic), Suminobu Hamada (Wonder Station), Yoshihiro Oikawa (Tokuma Japan Communications), Kenichi Kosuge (Studio Terra)