Credits:

Shinichi Chiaki (conductor), Rising Star Orchestra

Description:

Making Their Debut from Nodame Cantabile!Shinichi Chiaki & RS OrchestraNodame Cantabile, the Kodansha manga series with cumulative sales exceeding 5 million copies and still soaring in popularity. Its main character, Shinichi Chiaki, and his friendsthe RS (Rising Star) Orchestrahave recorded Brahms Symphony No. 1, making their CD debut with a miraculous performance brimming with tension and passion!Actually, this CD is is a special concept album featuring the fictional conductor and orchestra from the best-selling manga *Nodame Cantabile* as its mascots. However, it is far from a cheap, slapdash production using pre-existing recordings; it is a truly unprecedented album in which the musicians thoroughly studied the approach of Shinichi Chiaki as depicted in the manga and actually performed and recorded the piece themselves. Moreover, given that the piece is