Joe Hisaishi - The Best of Cinema Music

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Composer: Joe Hisaishi

1. NAUSICAÄ (from the film "Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind")
2. Princess Mononoke (from the film "Princess Mononoke")
3. THE GENERAL (from the film "THE GENERAL (Keaton's The Great Train Pursuit)")
4. Raging Men (from the film "Brother")
5. HANA-BI (from the film "HANA-BI")
6. Kids Return (from the film "Kids Return")
7. Let The Bullets Fly (from the film "Let the Bullets Fly")
8. Howl's Moving Castle (from the film "Howl's Moving Castle")
9. One Summer's Day (from the film "Spirited Away")
10. Summer (from the film "Kikujiro")
11. Villain (from the film "Villain")
12. Ashitaka and San (from the film "Princess Mononoke")
13. My Neighbour TOTORO (from the film "My Neighbor Totoro")

Masako Hayashi, soprano

Tokyo Special Choir

The Little Singers of Tokyo

Tokyo New City Orchestra

Joe Hisaishi, piano & conductor

Date: 2011

Label: Universal

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Joe Hisaishi (Mamoru Fujisawa, born 6 December 1950 in Nagano) is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist. He has written the music for over 100 films and has won 7 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Music. His credits include 12 enchanting animated Studio Ghibli films, including Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winners Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron. Hisaishi has won numerous awards, including seven Japanese Academy Awards for Best Music. In recent years, he works as a classical music conductor and also composed new works (Symphonies and Concertos) in a contemporary music style.

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