[Machine Translation] Mutumi Hatano, who has created many masterpieces with lute player Takashi Tsunoda, has gained popularity for her beautiful voice and music that values poetry. Now, with her latest work with Takashi Tsunoda, "Tear Shapes", which won the 2006 Recording Academy Award, comes an album of beautiful English songs, the most important work for her, who studied vocal music in London. The album includes Mutsumi Hatano's representative songs "Sally Garden" and "Water is Wide" arranged by Britten. Piano accompaniment is provided by Ichiro Nohira, who also performed a superb combination on "Beautiful Songs of Japan". His clear and beautiful piano tone and Hatano's beautiful voice make you feel that the world's best collection of English songs has been born.