SYMPHONY OF EVANGELION / エヴァンゲリオン交響楽 / Evangelion Koukyougaku

SYMPHONY OF EVANGELION
1997.7.6,7,8,9,14
Bunkamura Orchard Hall


Music/Artistic Director: Shiro Sagisu    Conductor: Derrick Inouye
Performer: New Japan Philharmonic    Supervisor: Hideaki Anno

Organizer: TV TOKYO    Organizer/Production Supervisor: New Japan Philharmonic
Project Planning: SERAPH    Assistance: KYODO TOKYO    Sponsors: Project Eva., UCC UESHIMA COFFEE CO., LTD.

Composer: Shiro Sagisu (disc-1 · II, III, V~XI, XIII / 2 · VI, VIII, IX)
                 Beethoven (disc-1 · I)
                 Bach (disc-2 · I, II)
                 Pachelbel (disc-2 · III~V)
                 Händel (disc-2 · XII)

Arranger: Shiro Sagisu (disc-1 · I, X / 2 · Ⅰ~V, VI~X)
               Martin Lascelles (disc-2 · X)
               Masamichi Amano (disc-1 · II, V~VI)
               Takayuki Hattori (disc-1 · IX, XI / 2 · VI)
               Tsuneyoshi Saito (disc-1 · III, XIII)
               Keisuke Shinohara (disc-2 · VIII, IX)

Choir: Tokyo Akademische Kapelle (disc-1 · I~III, XIII / 2 · VI, IX, XII)

VOCAL: Carroll THOMPSON (disc-2 · X)
            LOREN (disc-2 · X)

RAP: MALI (disc-2 · IV)

Violin: Tetsuya Ochiai (disc-1 · I / 2 · III, IV)
          Ikuko Kawai (disc-1 · I / 2 · II, III, IV)
          Naoto Takahashi (disc-1・1 / 2 · III, IV)

Viola: Sachie Oonuma (disc-1・I / 2 · III, IV)

Cello: Hiroki Kashiwagi (disc-1 · I / 2 · I, III, IV)

Piano: Makoto Kuriya (disc-1 · X / 2 · X)
          Rumiko Kita (disc-1 · IX, XI, XII)

Guitar: Mike Wyzgowski (disc-1 · X)

Presenter: Megumi Ogata (disc-1 · IV)
                Kotono Mitsuishi (disc-2 · XI)
                Yuriko Yamaguchi (disc-1 · XII / 2 · VII)
                Megumi Hayashibara (disc-2 · XI)
                Yuko Miyamura (disc-1 · IV / 2 · VII)
                Miki Nagasawa (disc-1 · IV, XII)

lyrics by MALI (disc-2 · IV)
             MASH (disc-2 · VIII, IX)

lvrics & music by Bart Howard (disc-2 · X)

Translation: Naomi Monma (disc-1 · I)
                  Masaaki Kobayashi (disc-2 · IV)
                  Hitomi Watase (disc-2 · VIII, IX)

The lyrics from disc-2 · XII are from the following colloquial translation of the Bible:
● Nihon Seisho Kankokai, published 1970 / ● Japan Bible Society, 1955 revised edition
   Atsushi Miura = editor


[CONCERT PRODUCTION STAFF]

Producer: Kohji Tamura (TV TOKYO)
               Haruo Okatani (New Japan Philharmonic)
               Tsutomu Tsuchiya (SERAPH)

Stage Director: Eiji Miyakawa (ONE POINT)
                       Akio Sato (ONE POINT)
                       Keiji Hirakawa (ONE POINT)

Sound: Naofumi Hayashi (ムーヴ)
Lighting: 安田保
              豊田恵治 (ファクター)
Sound Recording: Koichi Suzuki (KING RECORDS)
                           Shinya Tanaka (Sound Creators)
Video Recording: Tsutomu Watanabe (TV TOKYO Production)
Video Projection: Makio Suganuma (STEPS)
                          Miyuki Kijima (STEPS)
Video Projection Assistance: Masaki Koide (TOEI)
                                          Project Eva.

Producer Assistant: Tsunekuni Sakomizu (TV TOKYO)
                             Mitsuhiro Igari (New Japan Philharmonic)
                             Jun Takeuchi (New Japan Philharmonic)

Ticket Distribution/Production Assistance: Junichi Tayama (KYODO TOKYO)
Production Assistance: Ichiro Yoshie (KING RECORDS)
                                 Takashi Yoshioka (KING RECORDS)


[ALBUM PRODUCTION STAFF]

Design: Mikio Ando
            Noriaki Tamiya
Art Coordinator: Naoki Shibuya (KING RECORDS)
Mixing Engineer: Koichi Suzuki (KING RECORDS)
Assistant Engineer: Kunihiro Kamigaki (KING RECORDS)
Mastering Engineer: Seiji Kaneko (KING RECORDS)



[NEW JAPAN PHILHARMONIC MEMBERSHIP] (as of December 1998)

Honorary Artistic Director: Seiji Ozawa
Friend of Seiji: Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor: Leon Fleisher, Ken Takaseki, Szymon Goldberg
Adviser: Takashi Asahina, Naozumi Yamamoto
Permanent Conductor: Hideo Saito

Concertmaster: Yo-ichi Isozaki, Katsuya Matsubara
Guest Concertmaster: Stuart Canin
Violin: Hatsumi Ishida, Hiroko Ichiju, Momoko Inagaki, Ena Kuroda, Mari Kuwata, Megumi Koike, Nami Sakai, Noriko Sakai, Hidekazu Shinohara, Yoshie Sunahata, Yuji Soda, Ayumi Tamura, *Satomi Tomatsu, Fumiko Nakagawa, Eiji Nakaya, Noriko Nishimoto, Noriko Nezu, Masamichi Hara, Mari Fukaya, Maki Horiuchi, Kenji Magaki, Makiko Matsumiya, Sachiko Yamaguchi, Keiko Yamazaki, Hiroko Yamada, Noriko Yamamoto
Viola: Noriko Karaki, *Keiko Kimura, Chizuru Koyama, *Tomoko Shirao, Masato Takahashi, Mariko Nagata, Takaaki Hara, Yoko Mase, Hikaru Moriyama, Reiko Yanami, Yoichi Yoshitsuru, Gerhard Wallbrecht
Cello: Shozo Kaibara, Reo Tada, ※Kaoru Hanazaki, Steven Finnerty, Yutaka Morizawa, Akiko Yano, Izumi Yamasaki, Toshi Yamazaki
Contrabass: Tatsuya Anpo, Tsunefumi Ishida, Otoo Shibata, Yoshihito Hiroshima, Hitoshi Makita, Kyozo Mouri, Koichi Morizono
Flute: ※Akira Shirao, Mio Noguchi, #Soichi Minegishi, Kenji Wada, Yasushi Watanabe
Oboe: Nobuyoshi Asama, Hidetaka Nanasawa, ※Ken-ichi Furube, Akiko Mori
Clarinet: Akira Ueki, Takamichi Suzuki, ※Yoshiaki Suzuki, *Hidemi Mikai, ※Masaharu Yamamoto
Bassoon: Daisaku Sakuma, Shigeyuki Tanaka, *Takaaki Tsuboi, Akira Narita
Horn: Shozo Aida, *Shiro Ide, Masaki Tanaka, ※Masato Yoshinaga, Noriki Kaneko
Trumpet: Kazuhiko Ichikawa, Shigeo Ohkura, ※Takaya Hattori, Toshihiko Mitsunobu
Trombone: Kou Okumura, Kachishi Kadowaki, ※Shinji Koga, *Nobuko Miyashita
Tuba: Teruo Miyagawa, Yasuhito Sugiyama
Timpani: ※Takaaki Kondo
Percussion: Takeshi Katsumata, Hikaru Kojima, Koya Nakatani, Toru Yamada

(in Japanese phonetic order / # honorary chief / ※ chief / * deputy chief)