ORCHESTRAL JEWELS [Regular Edition]

This is a best album by Hiroko Yakushimaru, who marks the 45th anniversary of her singing career, newly recorded in the studio and arranged for full orchestra for the first time. It contains 10 songs in all that have colored her 45 years as a singer, starting with her debut song "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" and, of course, many theme songs from the films she starred in, such as "Detective Story", "Main Theme" and "Woman" from "W No Higeki", and going on to a cover of "Yume de Aetara", "Anata no Kotoba", for which she wrote the lyrics herself, and her newest song "Kimi to Watashi no Uta". The dramatic playing of the full Naoya Iwaki Pops Orchestra (NIPO), led by the young maestro Naoya Iwaki, who handled the orchestral arrangements for all the songs, and the piano of Satoshi Takebe, together with the voice of Hiroko Yakushimaru today, deeper and more radiant than ever, make this a luxurious disc on which these masterpieces, like so many jewels, shine anew.

歌手活動45周年を迎える薬師丸ひろ子の新たにスタジオ録音された初のフルオーケストラアレンジによるベストアルバム。デビュー曲「セーラー服と機関銃」を始め、「探偵物語」「メイン・テーマ」「Woman "Wの悲劇"より」など数多くの主演映画主題歌はもちろん、「夢で逢えたら」のカバー、自身が作詞を手がけた「アナタノコトバ」、そして最新曲「きみとわたしのうた」まで歌手活動45年を彩った全10曲を収録。全曲オーケストラアレンジを手がけた若きマエストロ岩城直也率いるNaoya Iwaki Pops Orchestra (NIPO)のフルオーケストラと武部聡志のピアノによるドラマティックな演奏、より深みと輝きを増す現在の薬師丸ひろ子の声で、まさに宝石のような珠玉の名曲たちが新たな輝きを放つ贅沢な一枚。