Joe Hisaishi is a very popular film music composer in his home country, who has already set numerous anime films to music. He became known to a more international audience through his music for the opening of the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998.

"Stand Alone" is the soulful title song of a Japanese television series and was sung in Japanese by none other than Sarah Brightman. With this arrangement by Hisaishi's compatriot Jun Nagao, "Stand Alone" has become accessible to the wind music...