(a) The Legend of the Wind -
(b) The Distant Days -
(c) Nausicaä Requiem -
(d) The Battle between Mehve and Corvette -
(e) The Road to the Valley -
(f) The Resurrection of the Giant Warrior -
(g) The Distant Days -
(h) The Bird Man -
(i) The Legend of the Wind
(c)ナウシカ・レクイエム
自らの命を犠牲にして、虫たちの暴走を止めたナウシカを人々が嘆き悲しむシーンの音楽。バロックの作曲家ゲオルク・フリードリヒ・ヘンデルにも通じる力強い楽想が、聴く者に強い印象を与える。日本武道館で演奏された2008年ヴァージョンより、この部分の音楽には合唱パートが付加され、レクイエム(鎮魂ミサ曲)の〈怒りの日〉のラテン語歌詞を歌う。歌詞と訳は次の通り。「Dies iræ, dies illa 怒りの日が到来する時/solvet sæclum in favilla この世は灰燼に帰すだろう/teste David cum Sibylla ダビデとシビラの予言のように/Quantus tremor est futurus その恐ろしさは如何ばかりか」。
1. Doves and the Boy ~ The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (4′)
2. A Street Brawl ~ The Chase ~ Floating with the Crystal (4′)
3. Memories of Gondoa (1′)
4. The Crisis ~ Disheartened Pazu (2′)
5. Robot Soldier ~ Resurrection – Rescue ~ (2′)
6. Gran’ma Dola (2′)
7. The Castle of Time (3′)
8. Innocent (2′)
9. The Eternal Tree of Life (3′)
映画のサントラ盤は同年8月に挿入歌「君をのせて」を含めたLPが、9月にCDが発売された。この好評を受けて、全8曲をシンフォニー化した「天空の城ラピュタ シンフォニー編 ~大樹~」のLPが同年12月に、翌年1月にはCDが発売された。さらに映画『天空の城ラピュタ』の評価は国際的なものとなり、2002年10月には北米での英語吹替版に合わせたニュー・サントラアルバム「Castle in the Sky ~天空の城ラピュタ・USAヴァージョン・サウンドトラック~」が発売された。
このSymphonic Suite “Castle in the Sky”(交響組曲「天空の城ラピュタ」)は、Symphonic Poem NAUSICAÄ 2015(交響詩「風の谷のナウシカ」)、Symphonic Suite PRINCESS MONONOKE(交響組曲「もののけ姫」)に続くスタジオジブリ交響作品化プロジェクトの第3弾に当たるもので、前述の3つのスコアを参照したうえで、構成されており、以下のような展開となっている。
01. Doves and the Boy ~ The Girl Who Fell from the Sky / ハトと少年~空から降ってきた少女
シンフォニー編のプロローグ。パズーの毎朝の日課はトランペットで「朝の曲」を奏でてからハトにパンくずをあげること。このトランペットから組曲は始まる。物語の中では、シータがパズーに助けられた翌朝、トランペットの音で彼女が穏やかに目覚めるシーンで奏でられる。「空から降ってきた少女」はいうまでもなくメインテーマである。
02. A Street Brawl ~ The Chase ~ Floating with the Crystal / 愉快なケンカ~追跡~飛行石
パズーが暮らすスラッグ渓谷の住民とドーラ一家のケンカとトロッコ列車を舞台にしたドーラ一家とシータたちの追いかけっこ。シンフォニー編の「大活劇」。アメリカ版のA Street BrawlとThe Chase。そして飛行石に救われるパズーとシータ。
03. Memories of Gondoa / ゴンドアの思い出
シンフォニー編では「母に抱かれて」のサブ・タイトルがある。物語の最後の方、シータがムスカに追い詰められて玉座の間で言ったセリフと「ゴンドアの谷の歌」が科学力を極めたラピュタが滅亡した理由を物語っている。
04. The Crisis ~ Disheartened Pazu / 危機~失意のパズー
サントラ盤の「ゴンドアの思い出」、ラスト部分。迫り来る危機。ムスカに囚われたパズーはラピュタの探索を諦めるようシータに言われて失意の中、要塞を去っていく。アメリカ版のDisheartened Pazu。
09. The Eternal Tree of Life / 大樹
アメリカ版のThe Eternal Tree of Lifeのオーケストレーションを採用している。いうまでもなくラピュタの庭園の大樹。ラピュタを浮上させていた飛行石の巨大な結晶体はこの大樹の根に囲まれており、シータとパズーの唱えた滅びの言葉「バルス」によって城は崩壊するが、大樹とその大樹に支えられて残った城の上層部はさらに高度へと上昇しながら飛び去って行く。
石田一志
(出典:Symphonic Suite Castle in the Sky CDライナーノーツ)
Produced in 1986, Castle in the Sky was the second film in which I collaborated with the director Hayao Miyazaki. As with the previous work, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Isao Takahata joined us as producer. Thinking back, I was caught between two great masters when composing the music. What a frightening experience. (Laugh)
The theme music, Kimi wo nosete (Carrying You), has been sung and loved by many. As a composer I could not be more grateful for this. In 2017, after 31 years, I reconstructed the music into a symphonic suite for a concert by the World Dream Orchestra – a project that the New Japan Philharmonic and I co-organised.
For that occasion I listened to the pieces all over again, and re-examined the score. From the challenge and dream to the heroic adventure, you will find all the essential elements of the original work in this exciting 28-minute symphonic suite.
―Joe Hisaishi
(出典:JOE HISAISHI IN CONCERT, Hong Kong, 2018 Program Booklet)
piccolo, three flutes, three oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, various percussion, harp, piano, celeste, strings, and solo soprano.
from Joe Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi, Hawaii, 2026 Program Booklet
I.The Legend Of Ashitaka (3′)
II.TA TA RI GAMI (3′)
III.The Journey Of The West ~ Kodamas (3′)
IV.The Demon Power ~ The Forest Of The Dear God (3′)
V.Mononoke Hime (3′)
VI.The World Of The Dead ~ Adagio Of Life & Death (4′)
VII.Ashitaka And San (5′)
Based on the music written for Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film Princess Mononoke in 1997, the score was reconstructed as a symphonic suite in 2016 and premiered in the summer with the World Dream Orchestra (W.D.O.) tour. However, although I composed it, it didn’t feel right, probably because I included songs that weren’t used in the movie, so I tried again in 2021.
At that time, I tried to make the composition closer to the story of the movie, put the climax of the world collapse in the second half, and replaced the related music with the orchestration used in the Ghibli Film Concert World Tour. As a result, the drama became clearer, and I think we were able to get closer to the world that Mr. Hayao Miyazaki was aiming for.
In the first half of this suite, “Tatari God,” Japanese drums and other percussion play a big role, and it is especially popular overseas. Also, the title song and “Ashitaka and San,” sung by the soprano, are slightly different in expression depending on the singer, so I personally look forward to it every time.
—Joe Hisaishi
(出典:Joe Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi, Hawaii, 2026 Program Booklet)
Princess Mononoke
In the moonlight I felt your heart quiver
like a bowstring’s pulse.
In the moon’s pale light, you looked at me.
Nobody knows your heart.
When the sun has gone,
I see you beautiful and haunting, but cold,
Like the blade of a knife, so sharp , so sweet.
Nobody knows your heart.
All of your sorrow, grief, and pain are locked
away in the forests of the night.
Your secret heart belongs to the world,
Of the things that sigh in the dark,
Of the things that cry in the dark.
Ashitaka and San
The sun come sup in the sky.
The night is behind.
When I close my eyes,
O hear the good old voice.
All around me brightens, and I pray.
The ray of light breaks through the dark,
Just as the sun brings warmth to the earth.
You see our guild.
You know our love purified the world.
We trust in ourselves.
Being together makes us strong.
Your presence, my light in the darkness,
May lead my way.
Even if you are not with me,
The sky sees us becoming one,
So that our love can last forever.
(出典:Joe Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi, Hawaii, 2026 Program Booklet)
* English translation (Those Songs are sung in Japanese)
関連情報
上記の歌詞は対訳である。ジブリフィルムコンサート・ワールドツアーで披露される「Ashitaka and San」(英語バージョン)の歌詞とは正確に一致しないワードがある。
I. existence は休符を含む16分音符3つ分のリズムが全てを支配し、その上にメロディー的な動きが変容していく。
II. where are we going? は26小節のフレーズが構成要素の全て。それが圧縮されたり伸びたりしながらリズムと共に大きく変奏していく。
III. substance は ド,ソ,レ,ファ,シ♭,ミ♭の6つの音が時間と空間軸の両方に配置され、そこから派生する音のみで構成されている。ちなみにこれはナンバープレースという数字のクイズのようなゲームからヒントを得た。
久石譲
(出典:久石譲&ロイヤル・フィル スペシャルツアー 2025 プログラム)
Symphony No. 3, “Metaphysica,” was commissioned to commemorate the New Japan Philharmonic’s 50th anniversary.
The piece is for an orchestra with quadruple woodwinds (about 100 musicians), has three movements, and is about 35 minutes long. That makes it roughly the same instrumentation as Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, which is what I was imagining this symphony would be played with while writing it.
“Metaphysica” is Latin for “metaphysics,” which the Cambridge Dictionary defines as “the part of philosophy that is about understanding existence and knowledge.” The point is to focus on logic over feeling or experience, so I wanted to compose a symphony that was completely structured around the movement of sound itself.
The first movement — I. existence — is controlled entirely by a rhythm of three sixteenth notes, including rests, with a transforming overlying melody.
II. where are we going? is made up of a 26-bar phrase that is compressed and elongated, changing dramatically along with the variations in rhythm.
The third movement, III. substance, has six notes — C, G, D, F, B-flat, E-flat — which are rearranged both temporally and spatially, so that the movement’s composition is derived solely from the variation of these notes. The inspiration for this was actually Sudoku.
―Joe Hisaishi
(出典:Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi, Cleveland, 2025 Program Booklet)
The Harp Concerto was jointly commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, with the understanding that Emmanuel Ceysson, a harpist with the LA Phil, would perform the piece.
In the summer of 2023, I had my first session with Emmanuel while I was in Los Angeles for my first concert with the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl (the 17,500-seat venue was sold out). Although I wanted to start composing immediately, a busy schedule delayed the process until February of the following year. In May, Emmanuel visited Japan, and we reviewed the nearly completed first movement, making adjustments as needed. By July, I had completed the harp part, and the orchestration was finalized in mid-September. The result was a 30-minute composition in three movements.
The first movement is an Allegro in B minor, mainly composed of arpeggios. The second movement, completed last, is a slow movement in D minor with a relaxed 6/8+7/8 rhythm. After a cadenza, the piece reaches its climax in the third movement, a toccata in F minor Allegro. The harp is usually associated with graceful, gentle, and calm music, but this concerto is intense, wild, and dynamic—quite different from traditional concepts. This reflects both my own vision and the influence of Emmanuel’s playing style.
The nine-month composition period (which, if you include the time spent conceptualizing, extended to over a year and a half) felt like a long stretch for me. While many concerts during that time took up a lot of my focus, they also allowed me to further refine the piece. I am deeply grateful to everyone involved, and I look forward to seeing the piece evolve through future performances.
―Joe Hisaishi
(出典:Hisaishi Leads Pictures at an Exhibition, Los Angeles, 2024 LA PHIL WEB)