Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath-

Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath-
Premiered	August 11, 2016
Composer	Yoko Shimomura
Performers	Siena Wind Orchestra (Tokyo) OSAA Shion Wind Orchestra (Aichi) Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra (Osaka)

Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath- is an official orchestral concert of Kingdom Hearts music performed by a full concert band. The concert was announced on the Kingdom Hearts Japanese Twitter page on April 26, 2016. A website was created to promote the concert, which premiered on August 11, 2016 in Tokyo Japan.

Performances

Date	Hall	Location
August 11–12, 2016	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Theater Concert Hall	Tokyo, Japan
August 27, 2016	NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. Citizens' Hall Forest Hall	Aichi, Japan
August 28, 2016	The Symphony Hall	Osaka, Japan

Program

The performance was about an hour long and features fourteen different pieces of musical arrangements from the Kingdom Hearts series. The pieces were performed by a symphonic concert band. Additionally, Tetsuya Nomura announced via Twitter the week before the concert debuted that the Japanese voice actors for Terra and Naminé would be present at each of the performances. The program featured a conversation between Terra and Naminé portrayed by their voice actors, which is considered canon to the series and was featured in the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World Tour- guide.

Piece	Composer	Arrangement
"Destati"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"Dearly Beloved"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"Traverse Town"	Yoko Shimomura	Souhei Kano
"Hand in Hand"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"Journey of KINGDOM HEARTS"	Yoko Shimomura Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Alan Menken Howard Ashman Danny Elfman	Kaoru Wada
"Lazy Afternoons"	Yoko Shimomura	Souhei Kano
"The Other Promise"	Yoko Shimomura	Souhei Kano
"Another Side"	Yoko Shimomura Natsumi Kameoka	Kaoru Wada
Intermission
"Gearing Up~Shipmeisters' Shanty~Blast Off!"	Yoko Shimomura	Souhei Kano
"Destiny's Union"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"The Unknown"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"Musique pour la tristesse de Xion"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"The Power of Darkness"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada
"March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra"	Yoko Shimomura	Kaoru Wada

Album

The Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath- album cover.

An album for the concert was announced for public sale on May 25, 2017 and features all, of the pieces planned to be performed at the concert. Originally, Square Enix had no plans of releasing the concert in CD or DVD form. The album released on July 26, 2017 for 3,300 yen. On October 2, 2017, it was announced that the album would be released in North America on October 31, and in Europe sometime that same month.

Track	Title	Length	Artist	Composer
1	"Destati"	3:25	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
2	"Dearly Beloved"	4:41	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
3	"Traverse Town"	3:03	Souhei Kano	Yoko Shimomura
4	"Hand in Hand"	2:53	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
5	"Journey of KINGDOM HEARTS"	9:30	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
6	"Lazy Afternoons"	4:11	Souhei Kano	Yoko Shimomura
7	"The Other Promise"	5:13	Yoko Souhei Kano	Yoko Shimomura
8	"Another Side"	2:57	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
9	"Gearing Up~Shipmeisters' Shanty~Blast Off!"	3:47	Souhei Kano	Yoko Shimomura
10	"Destiny's Union"	3:22	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
11	"The Unknown"	5:40	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
12	"Musique pour la tristesse de Xion"	4:39	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
13	"The Power of Darkness"	9:12	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura
14	"March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra"	5:22	Kaoru Wada	Yoko Shimomura

See also

• Official Website