Joe Hisaishi: Piano Collection

This album shows that Joe Hisaishi is much more than just the composer of popular film music. Pieces related to Miyazaki, Kitano and other filmmakers stand alongside independent piano pieces. Reduced to the piano, these scores reveal their compositional structure with almost analytical clarity: harmonic time, the breathing of phrases, the structural function of ostinato and dance. The result is not merely a selection, but a poetic atlas of Hisaishi's art. Behind the apparent simplicity lies a clear style.