arrangers:
- link: artist/114
  names:
    en: Koichi Sugiyama
    ja: すぎやまこういち
barcode: '4534530009876'
catalog: SVWC-7261~2
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Arrangement
composers:
- link: artist/114
  names:
    en: Koichi Sugiyama
    ja: すぎやまこういち
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discs:
- disc_length: '40:53'
  name: Disc 1 [SVWC-7261]
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Overture
      Japanese: 序曲
    track_length: '1:58'
  - names:
      English: Traveling with Wagon
      Japanese: 馬車を曳いて
    track_length: '1:58'
  - names:
      English: Peaceful Town ~ Quiet Village ~ Alchemy Pot
      Japanese: 穏やかな街並み～静かな村～錬金がま
    track_length: '5:38'
  - names:
      English: Strange World ~ Marching through the Fields
      Japanese: 広い世界へ～大平原のマーチ
    track_length: '4:24'
  - names:
      English: Chatting
      Japanese: 対話
    track_length: '2:46'
  - names:
      English: Cold and Gloomy ~ In the Dungeon Depths
      Japanese: ひんやりと暗い道～暗い道の奥で
    track_length: '3:23'
  - names:
      English: Healing Power of the Psalms ~ Friar's Determination
      Japanese: 讃美歌に癒されて～修道僧の決意
    track_length: '4:08'
  - names:
      English: Over the Sorrow ~ Hurry! We are in Danger
      Japanese: つらい時を乗り越えて～急げ！ピンチだ
    track_length: '5:17'
  - names:
      English: Mysterious Tower
      Japanese: 神秘なる塔
    track_length: '4:30'
  - names:
      English: Reminiscence ~ Go Topo Go!!
      Japanese: そうだあの時は～それ行けトーポ
    track_length: '3:06'
  - names:
      English: War Cry ~ Defeat the Enemy
      Japanese: 雄叫びをあげて～難関を突破せよ
    track_length: '3:45'
- disc_length: '41:57'
  name: Disc 2 [SVWC-7262]
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Remembrances...
      Japanese: この想いを…
    track_length: '5:54'
  - names:
      English: Majestic Castle ~ Gavotte de Château ~ Majestic Castle
      Japanese: 城の威容～王宮のガヴォット～城の威容
    track_length: '3:13'
  - names:
      English: Poet's World
      Japanese: 詩人の世界
    track_length: '2:02'
  - names:
      English: Memories of an Ancient Ocean
      Japanese: 海の記憶
    track_length: '4:17'
  - names:
      English: Stalked by Fear
      Japanese: 忍び寄る影
    track_length: '1:28'
  - names:
      English: Ruins of Darkness
      Japanese: 闇の遺跡
    track_length: '1:56'
  - names:
      English: Sanctuary
      Japanese: 大聖堂のある街
    track_length: '3:05'
  - names:
      English: Heavenly Flight
      Japanese: おおぞらをとぶ
    track_length: '2:52'
  - names:
      English: Nearing our Destiny
      Japanese: 終末へ向かう
    track_length: '3:41'
  - names:
      English: Dormaguez ~ Great Battle in the Vast Sky
      Japanese: ドルマゲス～おおぞらに戦う
    track_length: '7:11'
  - names:
      English: Sky, Ocean and Earth
      Japanese: 空と海と大地
    track_length: '6:18'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/136
  names:
    en: Sony Music Distribution (Japan) Inc.
    ja: 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックディストリビューション
    ja-latn: Sony Music Distribution (Japan) Inc.
  role: distributor
link: album/4461
lyricists: []
media_format: 2 CD
meta:
  added_date: 2007-03-24T10:07
  edited_date: 2025-05-02T07:35
  fetched_date: 2026-01-06T04:03
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 16250
name: Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest VIII Sorato Umito Daichito Norowareshi Himegimi
names:
  en: Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest VIII Sorato Umito Daichito Norowareshi Himegimi
  ja: 交響組曲「ドラゴンクエストVIII」空と海と大地と呪われし姫君
  ja-latn: Koukyou Kumikyoku "Dragon Quest VIII" Sorato Umito Daichito Norowareshi
    Himegimi
notes: 'Recorded on April 1, 2, and 3, 2005

  Except for Track 8, Disc 2 which was recorded on October 10, 2004 (From Dragon Quest
  III Symphonic Suite)

  The arranged music on this album was used as the soundtrack for the North American
  localized version of the game, replacing the original sequenced music from the Japanese
  version (Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi Original
  Soundtrack [SVWC-7228~9]).

  Composed, arranged and conducted by: Koichi Sugiyama

  Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

  Solo Concertmaster

  Tatsuya Yabe

  Concertmaster

  Tomoshige Yamamoto

  1st Violin

  Masayo Okuda

  Tetsuro Taniguchi

  Hiromu Ikeda

  Nobuko Kaiwa

  Kenji Koike

  Kumi Kobayashi

  Mari Sugimoto

  Harumi Takada

  Masako Tanaka

  Masao Nakane

  Masayuki Numata

  Junko Noguchi

  Hiroko Nozawa

  Akiko Mihara

  2nd Violin

  Kanako Endo

  Junko Okamoto

  Toshio Kamei

  Tamae Gohya

  Misato Taguchi

  Midori Nakane

  Yasuo Mizuyama

  Yuko Yasui

  Naomi Yamaguchi

  Makiko Yoshioka

  Viola

  Manabu Suzuki

  Hiroshi Nakayama

  Yoichi Kurokawa

  Ayako Kojima

  Akiko Kobayashi

  Yasuko Taura

  Yoshio Nakayama

  Yasuo Hayashi

  Kazuo Horie

  Kaori Minamiyama

  Shinichiro Watanabe

  Makoto Watanabe

  Violoncello

  Masahiro Tanaka

  Nobuo Furukawa

  Shinichi Eguchi

  Kazuo Okamoto

  Junko Takahashi

  Shohei Hirata

  Yohei Matsuoka

  Junpei Yanase

  Contrabass

  Osamu Yamamoto

  Takehisa Aiba

  Nakako Sano

  Otoo Shibata

  Toshimichi Nakanishi

  Haruki Murai

  Akinari Watanabe

  Flute

  Yoshiaki Teramoto

  Yusuke Yanagihara

  Ikue Koike

  Hiroshi Noguchi

  Oboe

  Masashi Honma

  Clarinet

  Michiyo Sato

  Hidemi Mikai

  Kei Ito

  Bassoon

  Masayuki Okamoto

  Kiyotaka Dosaka

  Jiyuro Baba

  Horn

  Sumiharu Arima

  Nagahisa Kasamatsu

  Takato Saijo

  Hirofumi Wada

  Trumpet

  Osamu Takahashi

  Tomohiro Naito

  Takashi Nakayama

  Trombone

  Hiroyuki Odagiri

  Yuri Iguchi

  Shinji Koga

  Bass Trombone

  Junpei Inoue

  Tuba

  Kiyoshi Sato

  Timpani & Percussion

  Yoshihiro Ando

  Naoaki Kobayashi

  Keiko Nishikawa

  Hideki Yamazaki

  Celesta

  Miwako Kanazaki (guest)

  Harp

  Ayako Shinozaki (guest)

  STAFF

  Project Planning, Planner: Koichi Sugiyama

  Producer & Director: Yukiko Sugiyama (Sugiyama Kobo), Soichiro Sano (Aniplex)

  Recording & Editing Engineer: Yuji Miyashita

  Assistant Engineer: 浜村航平

  Mastering Engineer: Machiko Suzue (Sony Music Communications)

  Designer: Yasunori Takeda (Sony Music Communications)

  Production Coordinator: Azusa Naitoh (Aniplex)

  Special Thanks: Yu Miyake (SQUARE ENIX), 小池哲夫 (Production NOVA), John R.Bullock
  (Adcap), 今村康, 住谷知宏 (kmp), Kumiko Honma (Aniplex)

  Very Special Thanks: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.

  Music Production: Sugiyama Kobo, Koichi Sugiyama, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra,
  Tomoshige Yamamoto

  Recording Date & Location: Apr 1&2&3, 2005 第一生命ホール

  *except DISC 2-08 on Oct 10, 2004 at 昭島市市民会館'
organizations:
- &id002
  link: org/510
  names:
    en: SUGI LABEL
    ja: SUGI レーベル
    ja-latn: SUGI LABEL
  role: label
- link: org/2206
  names:
    en: Aniplex Inc.
    ja: 株式会社アニプレックス
    ja-latn: Aniplex Inc.
  role: manufacturer
- *id001
performers:
- link: artist/115
  names:
    en: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    ja: 東京都交響楽団
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platforms:
- Sony PlayStation 2
products:
- link: product/990
  names:
    en: 'Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King'
    ja: 'ドラゴンクエストVIII: 空と海と大地と呪われし姫君'
    ja-latn: 'Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi'
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related:
- catalog: SVWC-7228~9
  date: '2004-12-22'
  link: album/2915
  names:
    en: Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to Daichi to Noro...
    ja: 「ドラゴンクエストVIII」空と海と大地と呪われし...
    ja-latn: Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to Daichi to Noro...
  type: game
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2008'
  link: album/41773
  names:
    en: Dragon Quest VIII Piano Suite
    ja: Dragon Quest VIII Piano Suite
    ja-latn: Dragon Quest VIII Piano Suite
  type: doujin
- catalog: KICA-2413~4
  date: '2016-03-09'
  link: album/56228
  names:
    en: Nintendo 3DS Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to D...
    ja: ニンテンドー3DS ドラゴンクエストVIII 空と海と大...
    ja-latn: Nintendo 3DS Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to D...
  type: game
release_date: '2005-06-22'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: JPY
  price: 3990.0
reprints:
- catalog: KICC-6308~9
  link: album/15803
  note: Aug 05, 2009
stores: []
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/4461?perpage=99999
votes: 0
websites:
  Review:
  - link: http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/dq8-ss/index.html
    name: RPGFan's Review
