Finally, the official website of the album  provided a date for its release date in Japan September 15, the album will cost about 3000 Yen (28 € ; 36 $). As you may all know, the Symphonic Fantasies concert took place last year in Cologne, Germany, on September 2009. A splendid orchestrated rendition of the main themes of our favorite games, a concert that  brought together the greatest composers of Square: (on the picture: from left to the right)

Hiroki Kikuta
Secret of Mana

Yoko Shimomura
Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey

Yasunori Mitsuda
Xenogears, Chrono Trigger

On the album’s official site : http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/symphonic/you can listen to excerpts of the music that was played on the concert (see section “Track List”).

The CD will contain five tracks:

Track 1: Fanfare Overture
Track 2: Fantasy I: Kingdom Hearts
Track 3: Fantasy II: Secret of Mana
Track 4: Fantasy III: Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross
Track 5: Fantasy IV: Final Fantasy

After Distant Worlds music from Final Fantasy and its successful tours, we hopefully will see more of these fabulous concerts where we can enjoy listening to a great compilation of Square’s best composers works.