[Pre Order] Joe Hisaishi - The Boy & The Heron: Symphonic Suite for Piano and Orchestra - Marbled LP *

Release Date: November 6, 2026

Limited Edition Marbled Vinyl — Joe Hisaishi With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Boy & The Heron: Symphonic Suite for Piano and Orchestra is a concert adaptation of Joe Hisaishi's acclaimed score for Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning final masterpiece, The Boy and the Heron. The fourteen-piece suite offers Hisaishi's personal interpretation of the film, following Mahito's emotional journey through grief, memory, and imagination.

Balancing intimate piano writing with rich orchestral textures, the work showcases Hisaishi's distinctive voice as composer, pianist, and storyteller. Created through an unusually open collaboration, Miyazaki gave Hisaishi exceptional artistic freedom after much of the animation had already been completed — and the resulting score, among the composer's most distinctive works, is centered on the piano as both narrator and emotional guide.

Features

• Marbled colored vinyl
• 1LP
• Limited edition
• Performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Track Listing

Side One:

1. Ask me why (I)
2. Gray Heron
3. Memories
4. A Trap
5. Sanctuary ~ The Master of the Tomb
6. Ark
7. Warawara
8. Reincarnation
9. Rain of Fire
10. A Song of Prayer

Side Two:

1. The King's Parade ~ Diversion
2. The Great Collapse
3. The Last Smile
4. Ask me why (II)