NAOTORA Ongaku Tora no maki Ichitora / NHK大河ドラマ おんな城主 直虎 音楽虎の巻 イチトラ / NHK Taiga Drama "Onna Joshu Naotora" Ongaku Tora no Maki Ichitora

Music: Yoko Kanno

Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Yoko Kanno

LANG LANG, Piano (Tracks 1, 11, 18, 19)
PAAVO JÄRVI, Conductor (Tracks 1, 17-20)
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, TOKYO (Tracks 1, 17-20)
MIDORI, Violin (Track 12)

*Lang Lang appears courtesy of Sony Classical, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Kaeko Mukoyama Strings
Concertmaster: Masahiro Morita
Violin I: Rintaro Omiya, Tsutomu Yamagishi, Yutaka Tanaka, Toshihiko Sakai, Kyoko Une, Tamaki Kobayashi, Takao Furihata, Nana Miyagawa, Toshihiro Takai
Violin II: Nobuko Obayashi, Akiko Tanaka, Kenji Matano, Toshiyuki Kimata, Haruhiko Mimata, Masamichi Yokoshima
Violin I & II: Yuki Naoi, Koichi Yokomizo
Viola: Hiroto Tobisawa, Ryo Muramatsu, Gentaro Sakaguchi, Hironori Nakamura, Maiko Takimoto
Cello: Kaeko Mukoyama, Shunsuke Yamanouchi, Hiroya Ichi, Erika Makioka
Contrabass: Masanori Ichikawa, Eiji Inagawa, Yoko Yanai

Rintaro Omiya Strings
Concertmaster: Rintaro Omiya
Violin I: Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yuki Naoi, Nana Miyagawa
Violin II: Haruhiko Mimata, Koichi Yokomizo, Masamichi Yokoshima
Viola: Gentaro Sakaguchi, Yuya Midorikawa
Cello: Shunsuke Yamanouchi, Hiroya Ichi
Contrabass: Jun Okamoto

Cello Solo: Kaeko Mukoyama

Harp: Risako Hayakawa
Percussion: Hideki Ikegami
Flute, Piccolo: Junichiro Taku, Kazuhiro Kajiwara
Oboe: Kanami Araki
Clarinet: Kei Ito
Fagotto: Toshitsugu Inoue
Contra Fagotto: Masamichi Sasazaki
Horn: Hitoshi Imai, Naoki Ishiyama, Yasushi Katsumata, Shigeaki Hisanaga, Yoshiyuki Uema, Kazuko Nomiyama
Trumpet: Tomonori Sato, Kazuya Honma, Kenichi Tsujimoto
Trombone: Hikaru Koga, Koh Aoki
Bass Trombone: Shunji Yamaguchi
Tuba: Shinpei Tsugita
Alto Saxophone Solo: Nobuya Sugawa
Acoustic Guitar: Tsuneo Imahori
Voice: Miu Arai

Ryuteki: Akinori Inaba
Taiko: Masaki Otawa

Utai: Shintaro Ban
Fue: Yusuke Kuribayashi
Kotsuzumi: Masahiko Sumikoma
Otsuzumi: Mitsuhiro Kakihara
Taiko: Masato Kotera

Synthesizer Manipulator: Keishi Urata
Synthesizer Programming: Yosuke Sugimoto
Piano & Keyboards: Yoko Kanno
Conducted by Yoko Kanno

Recording & Mixing Engineer: Tetsuya Hasue
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Masashi Yabuhara
Mixing Engineer: Koji Suzuki (Sony Music Studios Tokyo / Track 12)
Assistant Engineers: Yoshiharu Moriyama, Hiroko Soshi, Masashi Kitazawa, Takemasa Kosaka
Studio: NHK CR-509, 506, 604 Studio, NHK Publishing UDAGAWA Studio, Sony Music Studios Tokyo
Piano Tuner: Hirobumi Ohashi (H. Matsuo Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.)
                   Morikado Kurokawa (H. Matsuo Musical Instruments Co., Ltd.)
Copyist: Ichiro Sasaki

Recording & Musician Coordinator: Noriko Sekiya (Face Music)
Music Production: Kazuki Nishi (Meow on the Bridge Inc.)

Artist Management of Lang Lang: Jean-Jacques Cesbron (CAMI Music, LLC)
Artist Management of Paavo Jarvi: Jennifer Spencer (HarrisonParrott Ltd)
Artist Management of Midori: OFFICE GOTO Co., LTD

Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen (STERLING SOUND)
Mastering Coordinator: Masako Nakanishi (STERLING SOUND)

Art Director: Haruka Furuya
Designer: Megumi Nakazato (meeeg)

Plant supervision: Seijun Nishihata (SORA BOTANICAL GARDEN project)
Jacket Coordination: Fumiya Inada (EPOCH Inc.)
Jacket Production Manager: Shougo Minowa (EPOCH Inc.)

A&R/Product Manager: Tetsushi Koyama (Sony Music Japan International)
Product Coordination: Tomohiro Ijiri (Sony Music Communications Inc.)
Coordination: Yoshiko Takamiya (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
Business Affairs: Mako Shibayama (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
                         Suguru Oike (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
                         Ayumi Munehiro (Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
Sales Promotion: Ayaki Tomiyama (Sony Music Marketing Inc.)
Digital Marketing: Naomi Yamada (Sony Music Marketing Inc.), Hidaka, Ryo (Sony Music Marketing Inc.)

Executive Producers: Hiroshi Ueda (NHK Publishing)
                               Nobu Nakatake (Sony Music Japan International)
                               Tetsuya Shiroki (Sony Music Japan International)

Special Thanks to
Bogdan Roscic (Sony Classical International), Mark Cavell (Sony Classical International), Beth Miller (Sony Masterworks), Masahide Kajimoto (KAJIMOTO), Maki Takemitsu (KAJIMOTO), Nathan Matsuzaki (KAJIMOTO), Aurélie Abdeldjebar (KAJIMOTO), Mika Ito (KAJIMOTO), Ryusuke Kozawa (Sony Music Japan International), Motoichi Sugita (Sony Music Japan International)