This album contains tracks from the following albums:
[Melodyphony] UMCK-1369: Track 1, 2, 13
[Castle in the Sky]
TKCA-72436: Track 3
[Piano Stories]
WRCT-1001: Track 4, 6
[Imaginary Art Museum]
UPCH-1299: Track 5
[NOSTALGIA ~PIANO STORIES III~]
POCH-1731: Track 7
[Another Piano Stories ~The End of the World~]
UMCK-1294: Track 8
[Piano Stories Best '88-'08]
UPCI-1080: Track 10
[WORKS II]
POCH-1830: Track 11
[ENCORE]
UPCH-1142: Track 12
* Track 9 is not directly credited to an album in the inserts but the version here is the full opening song from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea Soundtrack [
TKCA-73340]
All Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Joe Hisaishi
Piano by Joe Hisaishi [except Track-5,9]
Conducted by Joe Hisaishi [except Track-3,7,11]
Vincent Mendoza [Track-3]
Renato Serio [Track-7]
Daisuke Soga [Track-11]
Recorded at
[Track-1,2,13] Abbey Road Studios, UK
[Track-3] St. Thomas Chapel-Bastyr University, Seattle
[Track-4] Hitokuchizaka Studio, Taihei Studio
[Track-5,12] Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
[Track-6] Sarm West Studio London
[Track-7] TEATRO STORCHI DI MODENA, Italy
[Track-7,10] Wonder Station
[Track-8] DAI-ICHI SEIMEI HALL
[Track-9] Victor Studio
[Track-11] Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, The Symphony Hall
Mixed at
[Track-1,2,13] Abbey Road Studios
[Track-3,5,7,11,12] Wonder Station
[Track-4] Hitokuchizaka Studio, Taihei Studio
[Track-6] Sarm West Studio London
[Track-8,10] ON AIR AZABU STUDIO
[Track-9] Warner Music Recording Studio
Performed by
[Track-1,2,13] London Symphony Orchestra
[Track-3] SEATTLE MUSIC
[Track-5] 9 Violon Cello Ensemble
Hiroshi Kondo (Concert Master), Takashi Kondo, Susumu Miyake, Makoto Osawa,
Haruki Matsuba, Yoshihiko Maeda, Masanori Taniguchi, Hiromi Uekusa, Seiko Ishida
[Track-7] Orchestra Città di Ferrara
Drums: Hideo Yamaki
W.Bass: Kunimitsu Inaba
Piano, Rhodes: Masahiro Sayama by the courtesy of Victor Entertainment, Inc.
Flugel Horn: Tomonao Hara by the courtesy of Paddle Wheel / King Record Co.,Ltd.
[Track-8] 12 Violon Cello Ensemble
Ludovit Kanta (Concert Master), Nobuo Furukawa, Yumiko Morooka, Akina Karasawa, Mikio Unno,
Eiichiro Nakada, Robin Dupuy, Mikiko Mimori, Shigeo Horiuchi, Eiko Onuki, Takayoshi Sakurai, Keiko Daito
[Track-9] Vocal: Masako Hayashi
Piano: Febian Reza Pane
Harp: Yuko Taguchi
Strings: Shinozaki Strings
[Track-11] Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra
Sources:
Track 1 from Spirited Away
Track 2 from Kiki's Delivery Service
Track 3 from Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Track 4 & 13 from My Neighbor Totoro
Track 5 & 6 from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Track 7 from Porco Rosso
Track 8 & 9 from Ponyo
Track 10 from Howl's Moving Castle
Track 11 & 12 from Princess Mononoke
Contained in 8 collections
