[1979] Akito Wakatsuki & Kentaro Haneda - Nutcracker Fantasy OST (Full Album)

Tracklist: 1. Overture [0:00] 2. Prologue (Drosselmeyer's Theme ~ Clara's Theme ~ Mouse Tribe's Theme & Fritz' Theme) [1:30] 3. Invitation to a Journey of Fantasy (Clara on a Journey of Fantasy ~ The Clock's Song) [6:01] 4. Country of Dolls (Waltz of the Country of Dolls ~ Fear of the Mouse Tribe) [11:38] 5. Sadness [17:45] 6. Krakatuk War (The War's Foreshadowing ~ The Mouse Tribe's Group Dance ~ War ~ Fritz' Transformation) [21:09] 7. Forest of Fairy Tales (Love's Lost Child) [27:36] 8. Country of Sweets (Waltz of the Snowflakes ~ Pine Forest's Winter ~ Dance of the Candy Fairies ~ Lullaby ~ Flower Waltz) [30:00] 9. Epilogue (Clara's Theme) [40:10] Arranged by: Akito Wakatsuki (1, 2C, 4, 6B, 6C, 6D, 7, 8A, 8B, 8D, 8E) Kentaro Haneda (2A, 2B, 3, 5, 6A, 8C, 9) Vocals by: Bishop & Gwinn (2B, 7, 9) Akira Nishimura & Singers Three (3B) Akira Nishimura (5) BGM performed by the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra & conducted by Kazuhiro Koizumi Ripped/scanned from my vinyl copy Original soundtrack to the Sanrio stop motion-animated movie of the same name. Old description, from my previous upload of the album: Can you believe that NOBODY had bothered trying to track down the soundtrack for this and upload it for 35+ years? Neither can I. Dunno if anybody will release this OST on CD anytime soon but I'm hoping they do the OST further justice if it does happen---there's plenty of other BGM from the movie that sadly didn't make it onto the OST. As such it would definitely be nice if those could be salvaged as well. Anyways, the music in here is pretty nice. Sorta sucks that most of the BGM here wasn't by Kentaro Haneda but the other tracks by Akito Wakatsuki are just as good too. Especially his "Flower Waltz" track on Side B :) I originally uploaded this as a "somewhat" raw vinyl rip back in July 2020—"somewhat" being that a friend helped de-clicked it for me, but I later edited it again which I'll get to in a bit. Anywho, previously I had uploaded two samples from the album before I posted the raw rip. I left the project on hold for a very long time afterwards because a few tracks on Side A had some audio abnormalities that I thought would have taken a very long time to restore. Well...turns out it didn't! They were actually really easy to fix, and the fact that I had left this on hold for years over something simple was embarrassing, to tell the truth. So, after that—I re-examined the LP once more to fix any pops that were missed previously, and the final touches were placed not long after. I think everything took me a month or so to do? It was finished back in either October or November of 2023 (I forgot which) and I had planned on uploading this on Christmas but wasn't able to since the scans weren't finished in time. Anyways, here's the OST again, in its final clean glory. Enjoy!