0:00 - A link to the past Title theme 0:30 - Zelda's Lullaby 1:26 - Hyrule Field Theme (OOT) 6:39 - Ocarina of Time Title Theme 7:51 - Hyrule Castle Theme 10:54 - Main Theme 11:06 -The Legend of Zelda (NES) Dungeon Theme 14:18 - Main Theme
I believe when the presenter is talking before this he tells the audience that the Ocarina player learned to play the Ocarina especially for this performance. :)
Pretty much the entire performance was as Kondo wrote it. For most of it, he only had the digital facsimiles of the instruments to play with, but this was always how each of the songs was intended to be performed. The song called for an ocarina, so she learned how to play it.
The fact that humans created these instruments and then eventually got together to make this kind of music together is absolutely why life is worth its strife.
Dude imagine spending months or years preparing for a concert. All the slow work, arranging the instruments and tuning everything, dozens of hours every week.. And then finally it's game night. You start waving the stick and 75 people come together to fill a hangar full of sound, culminating in a crescendo where the entire orchestra blast their instrument at the same time, making everyone in an AOE get goosebumps... It's basically magic.
@@gespenst1329 PREACH! I enjoy the music I make with my cheap acoustic guitar more than I do with my expensive keyboard and computer. I want to get a tin flute. Super simple, and it'll fit in my pocket.
Anyone else think this is literally the best video game orchestral piece ever performed? I mean, some of the final fantasy ones are heavenly but this one is just dear to my heart!
It's by far the best I've heard too. It has been adapted for this orchestra by someone who has played the games through and through and understands them perfectly.
One thing that really stands out to me in this performance is the conductor's ability to let the music breath and rest. The whole performance is filled with minor, momentary tempo slows and pauses that just give the music a more dynamic sound, instead of sticking with straight time at the expense of the music. The the musicians pull it off extremely well, almost if it's just natural for them to feel the music in this way. A few time stamps for examples: 0:34 - 0:50 - 1:17 - 5:06 - 5:40 - 6:36 - 11:08 The performance is just filled with this, and it really makes the music sound that much more passionate.
15:19 this man rocks my god i'm sure he played Zelda when he was younger, this is not only beauty of music, this is also the true passion of a gamer performing one of the best video game tracks ever created
At the end man, how he points atthe musicians like saying YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS, and then back to the audience like ARENT THEY FUCKING GREAT?,he seems so happy at what he's doing,
Utterly I'm in any of this, no matter how many years go by. This is "just" a videogame medley, yet this performance truly brings what everyone in the know has felt about it for decades. And also with the most exquisite perfectionism I've ever seen. I'm born in 84, been at classical for a LOONG TIME, it's not common for me to see a performance that is up the highest echelon in performers but also touches the heart of a child gamer such as myself... I'm humbled.
I think you’re definitely right. It has that playful sort of upbeat feeling to it when you’re just galloping about but then at 3:11 brings in the “confrontation”/“monster” portion where you’re either encountering a field monster or climbing death mountain. Does an amazing job with all that. I also love the clopping sound they did for the horse in the later half of minute four.
@Miles Doyle You think you’re spreading the word to the best of your ability, but really you’re just double posting and annoying ppl like a street corner lunatic. Ppl like you are why atheism is skyrocketing. Get some tact.
6:44 I lost all control of myself. Hearing a real Ocarina perform the song of my favorite video game, brought me literally to tears. I am crying for my childhood.
@@HUYI1 If I remember correctly from 2023's concert (where they played the Zelda suite again) the best part is that the lady with the Ocarina learnt the instrument specifically for this song, according to the presenter, which is why she specifically stood up as well at the end. Sitting in the actual room and hearing the booming instruments echo and swell through-out the room was certainly a completely different elevated experience from watching it on youtube.
I'm a 32 year old man sitting in my apartment in my underwear drinking a beer... with TEARS streaming down my face. I was not ready for this, thank you so much.
I'm so pleased to see so many other people get as affected by this as I do! I think it means your heart is still alive and well. Hope you get to stay like that all the way through :)
Dude.... That's hilarious 😂 Your comment almost made me fall out of my chair from laughing... Music was very touching, especially... If you're 32, considering that you were 10 when these songs touched your heart you've got every right to have tears streaming. Cheers.!!
I wasn’t ready for this. I felt my chest implode and I gasped and tears flowed. I was immediately warped back to when I first played this game and how it literally saved my life. This was the only thing I had to look forward to as a child. I even got the 3 beginning hearts as a tattoo with the last heart half full to signify that I’m still fighting although I’m damaged, I’m still here.
I have the same response to the main theme...once I was auditioning headphones in a shop and tried the orchestral recording of the main theme and almost completely lost it!
@@Unzero1 Haha! Are you playing Awakening? I wish they'd gone for a more epic version of the theme instead of the quartet version, but it's still magical.
@@Unzero1 Nintendo is like the Disney of computer games - except not evil!
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11:06 man that was beautiful. This was my baby bros favorite game. As I held him in my arms on May 2020...and hands to his face...with tears running down his face...I watched him pass away from a brain tumor stage 4. Glioblastoma Multiforme. I think this song captures that moment perfectly. As I felt his cold cheek as I layed on his chest mourning his passing. 14:19 as I walked out that room....looking back...I vowed to be everything he believed I would be. To my newborn son. I would carry the mantle to our family as he believed I would. So I Have.....I matured and changed as he thought and wanted me to. I strive everyday to be the best dad I could.
Beautiful words. I know you know this but, be brave and honor him. This game reminds us of the daily fight we encounter against sadness, evil, in so many ways and the importance of to protecting the vulnerable. I am sure your brother was an adventurous man if he enjoyed The Legend of Zelda as much as we all do. Honor him by remembering him with a big smile galloping down on Eponas back!
Koji Kondo is the John Williams of Videogames, almost everybody I know and you know will recognize his Compositions...a Genius not by luck, but by working and mastering his skill all the time. Of course Joe Hisaishi is a Genius of his own BTW however he's also on another level.
@@josephcoates4928 Nah, It's Uematsu's. When your music get's played at the Olympics during the opening ceremony. You kinda win by default, especially when the song of yours they picked fits with the spirit of the event 'They picked the victory fanfare 'Final Fantasy 1.'
Legend Kondo aside...Anyone already gave props to the ingenious Swedish orchestra? This evening I listened to many OoT orchestra versions, including the "official" Tokyo Orchestra version. But this one is the best. The arrangement is near perfect. The arrangement surpasses the official versions. The musicians hit the mark near perfect, they balance each other very well. Thank you for this gift. Edit: I know now that the conductor and the orchestral arranger here are some very talented, renown artists. It didn't surprise me.
The swedish radio symfoniorkester are on of our best orchestras here in sweden, and playing with them or listening to them is a real honor. They might not get the recognition on this video on youtube, but trust me, as a nation who's whole culture revolves around music, they are very, very appreciated here!
It's the best one, no question. Whoever did the actual composing really had a feel I think for the songs as a whole. Some orchestrated OST's just end up sounding like the original with a bunch of layered strings and horns playing the same thing. But here...like my favorite part is at 10:30 where the Hyrule Castle Theme is starting to crescendo, there is a grip of added strings, this incredibly atmospheric collection of fluttering violin runs, and I'm getting chills each time I replay it. I look like a maniac, 3am and I'm wildly playing conductor at my desk...lol so yeah this is def a cut above.
Yup. I’m halfway through and had to pause it. My heart needed a break. It’s without a doubt the best and most accurate rendition I’ve ever heard and I regularly listen to these regularly. I had to come to the comments to see if anybody else thought this.
@Miles Doyle I'm catholic. I have no idea why you are sending these long rants on youtube. I can guarantee you nobody is reading the whole thing. In fact, it is people like you (who send large unsolicited spiels about religion, unprompted) that make others feel discomfort and distaste for christianity. If your goal is to make people hate christians then you're doing a good job lmao
One of the very few performances of the title theme for 'Ocarina of Time' that actually has a musician doubling on Ocarina as well as their usual instrument!
I went to see "Symphony of The Goddesses" in Glasgow last week and it was fantastic. An orchestra plus a choir. An awesome experience if you can find one. Videogames Live! is great too. A bit more eclectic, but seeing Tommy Talarico rock out with an electric guitar to the Halo theme is something else.
I had the opportunity years ago to sit in with a small traveling part of an orchestra (with all the traditional instruments)at our church which has a large auditorium. I just played a small part on two songs on guitar. That said I was able to sit back most of the time and listen to the musicians. It was amazing! The sound, the presence, you could feel it! Goosebumps just thinking about. I would love to see a full orchestra in their element ...couldn't imagine. Good luck on attending such an experience!
Hayden Jameson i was able to go to a Christmas Carol afternoon/evening concert with a live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Something amazing and emotional about hearing the instruments live in front of you. I hope you get to go to and see a live orchestra one day!
The Dungeon Theme is one of the most emotionally powerful performances I've heard in a long time. Bravo to all involved! Real art makes you feel something.
It's hard for me to not have wet eyes a little bit, especially during the Hyrule Field theme. Just so many memories of playing OoT that come flooding back, putting me in a place and time where nothing felt more important than the world I was in with the game. The feelings and significance are so perfectly translated here that I'm honestly just overwhelmed by emotion. Incredible renditions.
Koji Kondo no doubt wrote expressive and lyrical music for this series but real credit is due to the person who orchestrated and arranged this particular version, Nils-Petter Ankarblom Not to mention both the orchestra, who are performing this with amazing musicality, style, precision, and also the conductor who probably did a lot of work in rehearsal to shape the performance and bring out all the nuance. Props to them all.
This is spectacular!! There is nothing pretentious or overly dramatic about this, unlike many orchestral game medleys- it's just the right levels of epic, in my opinion. I think my favorite bit is the dungeon theme, but it's all amazing and I wouldn't change a thing.
for me it's the hyrule castle, but i guess if the solo part used cello, it will add more gloomy/ dark side of the castle. that's just my opinion though...
Hey! That was the only time a viola ever got a solo. Don't hurt us fellow viola players by replacing us with a goddamn cello (-_-) (In all seriousness, you're right. A cello would have been a better choice)
yeah the arrangement is the best I've ever seen, great choices of themes, how they mix in, and how the instruments layer it all. Was it 'Orvar Säfström' listed who did the arrangement? If so he deserves a few beers haha :D
I was here, years ago. Dressed in my emerald green prom dress, hoping to look like princess Zelda. I sobbed my entire way through. This touched my heart in an unimaginable and incredible way. Thank you.
The Dungeon Theme, for all its simplicity, has to be one of the best videogame songs of all time. It's truly incredible how much it signals danger yet it also invites you to keep exploring and see what's ahead. Incredible!
In its simplicity, it is so highly effective. The song gives me utter chills with how beautifully it is played, but with the edge of danger and uncertainty contained in it. It just makes you feel both entranced and falling
Add the fact that Kondo wrote it with the limitations of the Famicom's sound chip. Just 5 channels. There's a huge amount of creative genius in that man's head for how well he works within the restrictions of a given game. For example, all 12 of OOT's ocarina songs are built from the same 5 pitches (D, F, A, B, D octave) for the portion you input as the player, a restriction made by the fact that you only had 5 buttons to work with. To see an orchestral arrangement built *that much* sound and that many layers out of a 5 channel 8 bit track is something special.
Literally makes you feel like your fighting a monster that is so much stronger than you but you're courageousness enables you to fight even if it means death
15:12 this moment when the horns rise their bells up is so beautiful both for the main theme song and for an orchestra moment. This arrangement is superb filled with great ostinatos ascendant flourishes for the chords and great staccato for the brass and great melodic lines for each family of instruments. The swedish radio Symphonic Orchestra is marvellous. i've heard more of their concerts and they are a delight to hear. So cheerful and always with a compact balanced sound.
I saw that and went "holy shit, bells up!" Like...I was a cellist and I know the horn section would BEG conductors for that for epic moments of some pieces so they'd carry out over everyone else. They usually got told to sit the heck back down though :/
I love how much the Hazlewood encourages the ensemble with his facial expressions and body movements. Many conductors just robotically wave their arms up, down, left, and right. Hazlewood gives the ensemble energy, and the ensemble reflects the energy beautifully. He perfectly exemplifies how conductors are not just on stage to give the orchestra cues and a time signature.
Yes, he is by far the most animated and energetic of all of the conductors. The music flows through and out of him into the Orchesta. He is the most likened to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" without the magical hat. In this case, it would be the Minish Cap ;)
I've been to some symphonies, one of them Symphony of the Goddesses, and I want to honestly ask, what is the purpose of the conductor? The musicians have practiced the music and know it. They have the shoot music. What is the conductor doing? Again, I love it, and I just want to understand.
@@Joshua-gu5nj a bit late but... The orchestra conductor is akin to a coach. He doesn't really play, yeah, but he plans it all out, he prepares them for the unpredictable. The conductor, firstly, cues in everyone, he gives the tone, the energy and, sure, the music may work without him, but it's like giving a reward to a movie without the lead actor. So majorly, yeah, he's only there for "props", but he's not there only for a presence, rather he sets every aspect of the music beforehand and passes it on to the orchestra(and yes, you would be surprised how much can be done with a set-in-stone already scored and written music) and basically is what the director is to a movie, a coach is to a team or even what a teacher is to a class. A bit metaphorical, but I hope it answered your question.
6 Years later but still absolutely stunning! Well done to the woodwind soloist, I may or may not have cried 3 separate times when the ocarina came out...
This medley is by far my favorite Legend of Zelda medley of the many I've listened to! Remarkably well composed and well performed. It's not afraid to embellish some melodies while still capturing the essence of the grand adventure that is the Zelda series. I especially LOVE the slow build of the original dungeon theme from mysterious and ominous to full on boss fight!
This is extremly beautiful - there is nothing pretentious about this performance, and the Zelda soundstrack we know and love were beautifully interpreted - and the French horns and the oboe sounded great, too =P
I do wonder sometimes if there are people listening in the audience or even the ones who are playing the orchestra that never have played any Zelda game... or maybe even never heard of it...
am i the only one that has to hold back tears when I hear Zelda's Lullaby? I dont know why but it strikes a chord with me that just makes my eyes start the water works and it is magnificent.
I actually play this sometimes at church during the altar call on piano…all my church ppl are over 60 so they don’t know it but it’s so beautiful it moves peoples spirit 🧡🧡🧡
I actually cried. Just a straight up roller coaster of emotions. This series encapsulates the best times in my childhood and helped me through the worst. Everything in my earlier years was changing and shifting around, but no matter what I knew I always had a home. In Hyrule. That will never change. Thanks for this video
they're so good at understanding the tone and style of each piece, like they understand the story and setting behind them. You can really hear it in Hyrule Castle and Hyrule Field pieces.
The performance of the Hyrule Field suite literally brought me to tears. Kondo’s field themes are always excellent (see Wind Waker sailing theme) but the wide swath of emotions in this particular suite from the atonal enemy variation to the innocence and naïveté of the “standing still” portion, performed by a live orchestra, was almost too much for this soul to bear. Bravo to you sirs and madames.
im really wondering why the heck Koji Kondo suddently nearly dissapeared from the major AAA Nintendo games by the beginning of the 2000s - ironically after the OoT masterwork! There must have had something going internally.. Maybe salary battles, other disputes with the management, maybe illness/depression... SO strange.
@@HA-no3jh Actually no, he continues to compose videogame music, he don't just compose all the music in the games, as he is not the main composer: For example, in Mario Galaxy 2 he composed 5 pieces (Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla, Yoshi star Galaxy and the Starship Mario 1, 2 and 3)
I was amaze the entire time, in the first songs smiling... but then the Ocarina title theme began... with the real ocarina, it was so heavy... so powerful... like hearing the song for first time and saying, "This gonna be the best game I gonna play, I cant wait"...
i get emotional listening to this and i don't know why. Other music can't seem to have similar effects. I guess it must be the game itself. Just imagine all these people playing a song composed by a single japanese composer. When i hear this i can see link running on the screen. Koji KOndo is a god no doubt.
absolutely beautiful, played legend of zelda for the first time when i was 12 and fell in love with it now im 20 and listening to this brings a tear to my eye truely deserving the title 'legend' of zelda
Nice! I was in my early twenties. Maybe 23. Link To The Past on the Super Nintendo. Now I'm 51, still in love with the series and, like you, tears in my eyes as I hear this beautiful rendition!
@@al201103 That’s awesome to hear!! I was 6 years old in 1992 when I first played link to the past. My dad got me into the original ones like legend of Zelda and Zelda 2 I can’t believe it’s been so long..36 years of Zelda I hope for the 40th anniversary they do something nice like remaster ocarina of time.
I listened to this whole thing with my eyes closed thinking back to the times I would wake up early as a kid excited to play. Thank you for this nostalgic overload 😌
I always appreciate an orchestra that takes game music seriously. There's so much beautiful orchestral music in games. Music that if you performed it to a crowd that doesn't know games would still appreciate it on the merits.
I think this is part of why I get so emotional when I hear the orchestral arrangements. The main theme in 8 bit is such a fantastic tune! When we started playing each time and were heralded with that piece, it may have only been simple tones but in our hearts, it was an epic orchestra. And now here we are, all these years later, and the orchestra has arrived to make our heart's song a reality. Seriously, I think the real-world interpretation of our excitement entering the world each time is the thing that gets me.
The Dungeon theme arrangement @10:54 is nothing short of miraculous. It's sublime. Congratulations to everyone involved in this project! This performance surpasses any adaptation of Zelda I've heard👏👏👏
Sound is the most powerful force imaginable. Whether through spoken word or song, sound can move mountains, as it can our souls, to the brink of collapse. From the ethereal harp at the opening to the noble call of the french horns, this performance is simply beautiful.
If I were Koji Kondo, I would feel honored that someone took my work and arranged it into something so beautiful. Between this and the Mario theme, the guy will forever be a part of modern culture for sure.
Absolutely incredible arrangement by Nils-Petter Ankarblom of Koji Kondo's compositions. 11 minutes onwards to the finale is utterly amazing! Can you imagine Kondo listening here to his humble 8-bit NES dungeon composition (1988) superbly orchestrated and then blending into his iconic NES overworld composition? Wow!! Nils-Petter Ankarblom really did a tremendous job arranging this with touch and creativity. You don't understand what it means for a child of that generation to hear these early console themes (NES/SNES/N64) woven skillfully together into a superb orchestral medley. It strikes a very sentimental nerve. Nils-Petter Ankarblom deserves an "Order of Nostalgia" for this work. Full props to the wonderful SRSO musicians and conductor Charles Hazlewood!
06:42 The first note of the harp already made me cry. So much memories. The feeling of carelessness as a child... I think i am not ready to be an adult yet. When i play the game now - its not the same. We all are now in trouble with our jobs, relationships and life in general. I dont have the patience for such a game like i had back when i was a child. But this theme reminds me of that feeling i had when i played it 20 years before...
This whole thing sounds like it was arranged by John Williams, Aaron Copeland, and Danny Elfman. I loved it! Such a beautiful performance. Ganon is so screwed. We've got this! Also I may have cried a little when she broke out the ocarina.
Clicked on this expecting just to listen to a sample. Wound up listening to the whole thing. Enjoyed every bit! To think Koji Kondo wrote the earlier Zelda compositions even with the significant limitations of the contemporaneous hardware is mind blowing. Genius.
The main theme at the end brings me to tears every time. Just seeing the conductor at 15:19 putting his all into it as the orchestra comes to a thunderous crescendo…simply magnificent
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0:00 - A link to the past Title theme
0:30 - Zelda's Lullaby
1:26 - Hyrule Field Theme (OOT)
6:39 - Ocarina of Time Title Theme
7:51 - Hyrule Castle Theme
10:54 - Main Theme
11:06 -The Legend of Zelda (NES) Dungeon Theme
14:18 - Main Theme
+Nanie thank you!
u da real mvp
Dat Dungeon Theme Tho
U got mentioned in the description. You're a legend
The legend if Nanie
Well, I'm glad it helped :D
Yep, bringing out the real Ocarina was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen
Epic goosebumps here, Jesus Christ 😍
I believe when the presenter is talking before this he tells the audience that the Ocarina player learned to play the Ocarina especially for this performance. :)
Pretty much the entire performance was as Kondo wrote it. For most of it, he only had the digital facsimiles of the instruments to play with, but this was always how each of the songs was intended to be performed.
The song called for an ocarina, so she learned how to play it.
what brand is this I wonder
@Melvil DE CASTRO ocarina brand
Video games or not, Koji Kondo will go down as one of the best composers of our time.
hope so
and what if he doesn't? who the fck cares, just enjoy the music.
+MasterZeke wow angry much. rofl
Nobuo Uematsu ?
the best dude. just Listen
The fact that humans created these instruments and then eventually got together to make this kind of music together is absolutely why life is worth its strife.
Such an underrated comment
@@troubledseed Alright I'll slap my chair
Bros sitting on the high chair💀
I am dying this is beyond! Thank you for saying that!
This makes me appreciate humanity I am losing it that was fucking amazing!
It’s the only thing created by humanity that everyone liked
Usage of the actual ocarina gave me goosebumps!
same omg brought tears to my eyes
Percy Wood she was so so good.
Percy Wood saw the ocarina and was immediately 10yrs old again, popping OoT into my 64 for the first time.
somehow i imagine the sheets as a number of [A], [B], [UP], [DOWN], [LEFT] and [RIGHT]
I have an ocarina but it can't play high notes :-:
The conductor mouthing along to the main theme cracks me up.
logical.chaos no replies?
Me too 😂😂😂
Christopher Tin vibes
Dude imagine spending months or years preparing for a concert. All the slow work, arranging the instruments and tuning everything, dozens of hours every week.. And then finally it's game night. You start waving the stick and 75 people come together to fill a hangar full of sound, culminating in a crescendo where the entire orchestra blast their instrument at the same time, making everyone in an AOE get goosebumps... It's basically magic.
@@dinoflame9696 what in the music gsce
It's absolutely insane that Kondo wrote some of these incredible pieces for what was effectively 4 channel midi capable of only a handful of sounds
Limitation breeds creativity. And it’s a mark of his genius.
@@gespenst1329 PREACH! I enjoy the music I make with my cheap acoustic guitar more than I do with my expensive keyboard and computer. I want to get a tin flute. Super simple, and it'll fit in my pocket.
yep
the arrangers for this performance deserve so much credit too imo.
for real its absolutely incredible@@Hobbes9
Anyone else think this is literally the best video game orchestral piece ever performed? I mean, some of the final fantasy ones are heavenly but this one is just dear to my heart!
It's so powerful but I can't explain why and I've only been playing the games for the last 4 years and it hits me in the feels.
It's by far the best I've heard too. It has been adapted for this orchestra by someone who has played the games through and through and understands them perfectly.
One thing that really stands out to me in this performance is the conductor's ability to let the music breath and rest. The whole performance is filled with minor, momentary tempo slows and pauses that just give the music a more dynamic sound, instead of sticking with straight time at the expense of the music. The the musicians pull it off extremely well, almost if it's just natural for them to feel the music in this way. A few time stamps for examples: 0:34 - 0:50 - 1:17 - 5:06 - 5:40 - 6:36 - 11:08
The performance is just filled with this, and it really makes the music sound that much more passionate.
Chrono trigger is the best, but this is not that bad ;)
That's called nostalgia. I totally agree though!
15:19 this man rocks my god
i'm sure he played Zelda when he was younger, this is not only beauty of music, this is also the true passion of a gamer performing one of the best video game tracks ever created
He is definitely enjoying himself for the whole 16min, that is so pleasant to see :)
At the end man, how he points atthe musicians like saying YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS, and then back to the audience like ARENT THEY FUCKING GREAT?,he seems so happy at what he's doing,
I'm sure he considered this night poggers.
epic gamer move right there
Wouldn't be surprised if most of the musicians there ever play zelda or any video games much, conductor too. It's not part of a musicians lifestyle
Utterly I'm in any of this, no matter how many years go by. This is "just" a videogame medley, yet this performance truly brings what everyone in the know has felt about it for decades. And also with the most exquisite perfectionism I've ever seen. I'm born in 84, been at classical for a LOONG TIME, it's not common for me to see a performance that is up the highest echelon in performers but also touches the heart of a child gamer such as myself... I'm humbled.
I really appreciate how they did the entirely of Hyrule Field from OOT. It’s such a multifaceted and expression filled piece.
I think you’re definitely right. It has that playful sort of upbeat feeling to it when you’re just galloping about but then at 3:11 brings in the “confrontation”/“monster” portion where you’re either encountering a field monster or climbing death mountain. Does an amazing job with all that. I also love the clopping sound they did for the horse in the later half of minute four.
@Miles Doyle You think you’re spreading the word to the best of your ability, but really you’re just double posting and annoying ppl like a street corner lunatic. Ppl like you are why atheism is skyrocketing. Get some tact.
Not a good arrangement, though.
@@ListenToPumpkinMusic ?????
@@ListenToPumpkinMusic yeah you know nothing for that insane take.
6:44 I lost all control of myself. Hearing a real Ocarina perform the song of my favorite video game, brought me literally to tears. I am crying for my childhood.
Bro same
That part was amazing!
Haha nice 🙂 i lost control right in the beggining on Zelda Lullaby 🙃
@@HUYI1 If I remember correctly from 2023's concert (where they played the Zelda suite again) the best part is that the lady with the Ocarina learnt the instrument specifically for this song, according to the presenter, which is why she specifically stood up as well at the end. Sitting in the actual room and hearing the booming instruments echo and swell through-out the room was certainly a completely different elevated experience from watching it on youtube.
It's the 6 chords of the harp for me
I'm a 32 year old man sitting in my apartment in my underwear drinking a beer... with TEARS streaming down my face. I was not ready for this, thank you so much.
I'm so pleased to see so many other people get as affected by this as I do! I think it means your heart is still alive and well. Hope you get to stay like that all the way through :)
@@NovaObsessio you’re pretty pathetic man
Dude.... That's hilarious 😂
Your comment almost made me fall out of my chair from laughing...
Music was very touching, especially...
If you're 32, considering that you were 10 when these songs touched your heart you've got every right to have tears streaming.
Cheers.!!
@@NovaObsessio boo this man
Right !
Imagine being the kid whose parent is part of a video-game soundtrack-covering orchestra. I'd be so proud.
Does it count if you're the parent telling the kids you got tickets to see The Consouls next gig? ruclips.net/p/PLSWV0usaPRr7iWK9SSkGr1yYPJEGIC_XU
"You see that son? Right there, I went Bum Bum on that drum. What have you done?! NOTHING!"
@@Joshua-gu5nj 😂
Acho que nessa geracao de hoje eles nem ligaram por que nao sabem oque foi nossa infancia
I'm pretty sure a few of these people playing in the orchestra remember these songs from playing Zelda as children.
...35 years old.. tears from the absolutely beautiful rendition of my childhood expressed here. Fantastic job!
❤🎉😂
I wasn’t ready for this. I felt my chest implode and I gasped and tears flowed. I was immediately warped back to when I first played this game and how it literally saved my life. This was the only thing I had to look forward to as a child. I even got the 3 beginning hearts as a tattoo with the last heart half full to signify that I’m still fighting although I’m damaged, I’m still here.
let's hope that 1 half full heart goes to 3 full hearts.
wish you the best of luck in your life :)
Me too. It hit me HARD. wish you the best
Beautiful
15:12 You know shits gonna get good when the horn section goes bells up.
As a former French hornist, this shit made me grin from ear to ear
@@collettebrown4136 I play French horn and nothing makes me more happy than my director telling the horns to go all out
I was waiting for this moment for 15 minutes and 12 sections; immediate goosebumps.
made me cry!
Take my like you beautiful bastard haha.
in 6:56, the girl plays ocarina, s very hard to hold the tears, i can't explain why.
Thiago Araújo beautiful game, beautiful music, beautiful memories 😊 nostalgia gets you like that x
Haven't played the game in 20 years, heard the ocarina at that exact moment and was transported back in time myself. Whoa, trippy.
I have the same response to the main theme...once I was auditioning headphones in a shop and tried the orchestral recording of the main theme and almost completely lost it!
@@Unzero1 Haha! Are you playing Awakening? I wish they'd gone for a more epic version of the theme instead of the quartet version, but it's still magical.
@@Unzero1 Nintendo is like the Disney of computer games - except not evil!
11:06 man that was beautiful. This was my baby bros favorite game. As I held him in my arms on May 2020...and hands to his face...with tears running down his face...I watched him pass away from a brain tumor stage 4. Glioblastoma Multiforme. I think this song captures that moment perfectly. As I felt his cold cheek as I layed on his chest mourning his passing. 14:19 as I walked out that room....looking back...I vowed to be everything he believed I would be. To my newborn son. I would carry the mantle to our family as he believed I would. So I Have.....I matured and changed as he thought and wanted me to. I strive everyday to be the best dad I could.
Much love to you ❤️❤️❤️
or bro... my feelings ❤❤❤😢
Beautiful words. I know you know this but, be brave and honor him. This game reminds us of the daily fight we encounter against sadness, evil, in so many ways and the importance of to protecting the vulnerable. I am sure your brother was an adventurous man if he enjoyed The Legend of Zelda as much as we all do. Honor him by remembering him with a big smile galloping down on Eponas back!
Koji Kondo is the John Williams of Videogames, almost everybody I know and you know will recognize his Compositions...a Genius not by luck, but by working and mastering his skill all the time.
Of course Joe Hisaishi is a Genius of his own BTW however he's also on another level.
John Williams - King of movie music
Joe Hisaishi - King of anime music
Koji Kondo - King of video game music
@@flossingjonah9066 I fully agree with that statement
Nobuo uematsu has that title imo. Love koji too!
@@brookeroram1620 thinking about it I might argue Go Ichinose could take that spot
@@josephcoates4928 Nah, It's Uematsu's. When your music get's played at the Olympics during the opening ceremony. You kinda win by default, especially when the song of yours they picked fits with the spirit of the event 'They picked the victory fanfare 'Final Fantasy 1.'
Legend Kondo aside...Anyone already gave props to the ingenious Swedish orchestra?
This evening I listened to many OoT orchestra versions, including the "official" Tokyo Orchestra version. But this one is the best. The arrangement is near perfect. The arrangement surpasses the official versions. The musicians hit the mark near perfect, they balance each other very well.
Thank you for this gift.
Edit: I know now that the conductor and the orchestral arranger here are some very talented, renown artists. It didn't surprise me.
The swedish radio symfoniorkester are on of our best orchestras here in sweden, and playing with them or listening to them is a real honor. They might not get the recognition on this video on youtube, but trust me, as a nation who's whole culture revolves around music, they are very, very appreciated here!
It's the best one, no question. Whoever did the actual composing really had a feel I think for the songs as a whole. Some orchestrated OST's just end up sounding like the original with a bunch of layered strings and horns playing the same thing. But here...like my favorite part is at 10:30 where the Hyrule Castle Theme is starting to crescendo, there is a grip of added strings, this incredibly atmospheric collection of fluttering violin runs, and I'm getting chills each time I replay it. I look like a maniac, 3am and I'm wildly playing conductor at my desk...lol so yeah this is def a cut above.
Yup. I’m halfway through and had to pause it. My heart needed a break. It’s without a doubt the best and most accurate rendition I’ve ever heard and I regularly listen to these regularly. I had to come to the comments to see if anybody else thought this.
JAGMO's arrangement is similarly amazing, this is better but theirs has songs from Majoras mask. Too bad they keep taking it down from RUclips.
@Miles Doyle I'm catholic. I have no idea why you are sending these long rants on youtube. I can guarantee you nobody is reading the whole thing. In fact, it is people like you (who send large unsolicited spiels about religion, unprompted) that make others feel discomfort and distaste for christianity. If your goal is to make people hate christians then you're doing a good job lmao
Never realized how much I love orchestra until I was introduced to fantasy games, please never stop orchestras..
Sadly they took a massive hit in 2020 due to covid. Many of them were out of work until recently.
Yup. I thought orchestra was for big budget movies. It makes music for video games so cinematic.
omfg, the real ocarina literally just brought tears to my eyes... that OoT title theme is just... good, it stopped and I can stop crying now.
11:43 - oh god not again! 😭😭😭 amazing!
Me too bro. I’m crying
Me too.
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One of the very few performances of the title theme for 'Ocarina of Time' that actually has a musician doubling on Ocarina as well as their usual instrument!
yeah ... holy shit, didn't realize that an ocarina sounded like that until now :P I thought those toy ocarinas you can buy online were just toys :P
The ocarina had the sexist drop ever. I would've saved it for end... Until I heard the finale.
It's so pleasant to the ears.
I was like, "OMG!!! A real ocarina playing the theme!!!"
GallifreyFalls NoMore I too never knew the introduction theme was a real ocarina sound.
The minute I hear the Hyrule Field theme I feel like I'm riding a horse through rolling fields of grass on a beautiful sunny day.
I want to go to a live orchestra so bad.
I really hope you get to go!! It's an amazing experience. The music has a presence to it.
I went to see "Symphony of The Goddesses" in Glasgow last week and it was fantastic. An orchestra plus a choir. An awesome experience if you can find one. Videogames Live! is great too. A bit more eclectic, but seeing Tommy Talarico rock out with an electric guitar to the Halo theme is something else.
I had the opportunity years ago to sit in with a small traveling part of an orchestra (with all the traditional instruments)at our church which has a large auditorium. I just played a small part on two songs on guitar. That said I was able to sit back most of the time and listen to the musicians. It was amazing! The sound, the presence, you could feel it! Goosebumps just thinking about. I would love to see a full orchestra in their element ...couldn't imagine. Good luck on attending such an experience!
Hayden Jameson i was able to go to a Christmas Carol afternoon/evening concert with a live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Something amazing and emotional about hearing the instruments live in front of you. I hope you get to go to and see a live orchestra one day!
Ha I've been too many times
I'm back for the 99th time for 11:10 .. Brilliant.. Dark.. so much emotion in this particular build up
You have to admit the way he just stares into space is funny, though,
My favorite part of this whole suite.
6:40 just the first notes made me cry. It‘s so wonderful 🥲
Amen. Such wonderful memories
Not sure if I like how the harp is in place of the piano, because piano on fortissimo is what I'm used to the most, but it's just sooo good
I was trying to not let it disturb me but i couldn't quite get around the ocarina on the lower notes being very sharp
Brack
It's dangerous to go alone!
Take this!
*You obtain epic battle music*
Bless you. Best comment ❤️
in retro perspective it is such a epic moment haha
Oh no! You lost the item "tears"!
The Dungeon Theme just gave me a tingly feeling inside.
And the ending of the Dungeon theme here sounded inspired by Danny Elfman (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure style)
dude it sounds so good, who knows an song from an 8-bit game could be that good in an orchestra
At 10:10 when the trombones and tubas came in wheewww outta this world goosebumps all over
I found myself looking for keys , maps, and compasses when i heard it.
The best indeed
The Dungeon Theme is one of the most emotionally powerful performances I've heard in a long time. Bravo to all involved! Real art makes you feel something.
That part was fucking incredible
@@mookiestewart3776 Agreed
damn, these were one of the finest few minutes for my ears i’ve ever had.
The English language has no word to describe how happy this performance made me. Just...fantastic. Bravo.
+bigcanucker so use two :P
bigcanucker use hylian language :D
JDanielDroiidXD I will use the only hylian words i know, based on the beautiful words we can hear from link: huah
bigcanucker say it in Swedish
bigcanucker I agree. Have you played Breath of the Wild?
It's hard for me to not have wet eyes a little bit, especially during the Hyrule Field theme. Just so many memories of playing OoT that come flooding back, putting me in a place and time where nothing felt more important than the world I was in with the game. The feelings and significance are so perfectly translated here that I'm honestly just overwhelmed by emotion. Incredible renditions.
And then the opening theme, UGH. It's also very hard to not just wanna call out how beautiful every single rendition is.
"Hey listen"
I yell this at my kids and they don't get it...
@@nicksandys475 you should play ocarina of time with them :D
Man, i miss Navi... Her being annoying was not so good but when she left i was like it is so quite now ;(
Navi never showed up :'[
"Hey listen... .... Listen! ... Link? Hey Link!!! Wake up!" - Link has left the chat...
Koji Kondo no doubt wrote expressive and lyrical music for this series but real credit is due to the person who orchestrated and arranged this particular version, Nils-Petter Ankarblom
Not to mention both the orchestra, who are performing this with amazing musicality, style, precision, and also the conductor who probably did a lot of work in rehearsal to shape the performance and bring out all the nuance. Props to them all.
I could be wrong, but part of me imagines that Mozart would have been so entertained watching this.
This room was absolutely bursting with passion. Amazing.
I’m in complete awe. Hyrule theme has never sound so good. Kondo is the John Williams of video game music.
I love Koji Kondo's work so much. This suite was played with love. Goosebumps and something in my eye...
This is spectacular!! There is nothing pretentious or overly dramatic about this, unlike many orchestral game medleys- it's just the right levels of epic, in my opinion. I think my favorite bit is the dungeon theme, but it's all amazing and I wouldn't change a thing.
for me it's the hyrule castle, but i guess if the solo part used cello, it will add more gloomy/ dark side of the castle.
that's just my opinion though...
I went back and re-listened to this today and this time around the castle bit was my favorite. ^_^
Hey! That was the only time a viola ever got a solo. Don't hurt us fellow viola players by replacing us with a goddamn cello (-_-)
(In all seriousness, you're right. A cello would have been a better choice)
Jeremiah Harnanto oh, i'm sorry if it hurts your feelings :')
yeah the arrangement is the best I've ever seen, great choices of themes, how they mix in, and how the instruments layer it all. Was it 'Orvar Säfström' listed who did the arrangement? If so he deserves a few beers haha :D
37-y-o and got back to 1998 with tears of happiness remembering the amazing childhood that I had. Unbelievable that music can achieve.
thanks zelda for being part of my childhood
They nailed the fuck out of this performance and recording. Beautiful!
I was here, years ago. Dressed in my emerald green prom dress, hoping to look like princess Zelda. I sobbed my entire way through. This touched my heart in an unimaginable and incredible way. Thank you.
This is just an absolute masterpeice. If Nintendo ever makes a Zelda movie, they need this orchestra to be the producer for the music.
the dungeon theme symphonized is so evil... LOVE IT
The Dungeon Theme, for all its simplicity, has to be one of the best videogame songs of all time. It's truly incredible how much it signals danger yet it also invites you to keep exploring and see what's ahead. Incredible!
In its simplicity, it is so highly effective. The song gives me utter chills with how beautifully it is played, but with the edge of danger and uncertainty contained in it. It just makes you feel both entranced and falling
The darker bits of Hyrule Field as well. As if its telling you there's danger ahead and there's no turning back. Do or die.
Add the fact that Kondo wrote it with the limitations of the Famicom's sound chip. Just 5 channels.
There's a huge amount of creative genius in that man's head for how well he works within the restrictions of a given game. For example, all 12 of OOT's ocarina songs are built from the same 5 pitches (D, F, A, B, D octave) for the portion you input as the player, a restriction made by the fact that you only had 5 buttons to work with.
To see an orchestral arrangement built *that much* sound and that many layers out of a 5 channel 8 bit track is something special.
Literally makes you feel like your fighting a monster that is so much stronger than you but you're courageousness enables you to fight even if it means death
Best OOT Hyrule Field I've heard so far !! Really impressive !!
True!
This is absolutely beautiful. The different songs connected with each other make you really feel you are going through an adventure.
Came to the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one getting emotional listening to this 😭 glad to know I'm not alone!!
This was such a thorough and detailed suite. The finale was OUT OF CONTROL EPIC
This whole score is incredible!
15:12 this moment when the horns rise their bells up is so beautiful both for the main theme song and for an orchestra moment. This arrangement is superb filled with great ostinatos ascendant flourishes for the chords and great staccato for the brass and great melodic lines for each family of instruments. The swedish radio Symphonic Orchestra is marvellous. i've heard more of their concerts and they are a delight to hear. So cheerful and always with a compact balanced sound.
I saw that and went "holy shit, bells up!" Like...I was a cellist and I know the horn section would BEG conductors for that for epic moments of some pieces so they'd carry out over everyone else. They usually got told to sit the heck back down though :/
@@LamhirhAbriel I love songs with awesome horn parts and not just because I get to play it :)
@@LamhirhAbrielas a horn player I almost lost it when I saw that 🥹
You know shit's about to get real when the horn section goes bells up!
OMG, I'm in tears listening to this. This game had the biggest impact on my childhood and to hear these songs like this...absolutely beautiful! 😭😭😭
I love how much the Hazlewood encourages the ensemble with his facial expressions and body movements. Many conductors just robotically wave their arms up, down, left, and right. Hazlewood gives the ensemble energy, and the ensemble reflects the energy beautifully. He perfectly exemplifies how conductors are not just on stage to give the orchestra cues and a time signature.
That’s really true, I agree
Yes, he is by far the most animated and energetic of all of the conductors. The music flows through and out of him into the Orchesta. He is the most likened to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" without the magical hat. In this case, it would be the Minish Cap ;)
I've been to some symphonies, one of them Symphony of the Goddesses, and I want to honestly ask, what is the purpose of the conductor? The musicians have practiced the music and know it. They have the shoot music. What is the conductor doing? Again, I love it, and I just want to understand.
@@Joshua-gu5nj a bit late but... The orchestra conductor is akin to a coach. He doesn't really play, yeah, but he plans it all out, he prepares them for the unpredictable. The conductor, firstly, cues in everyone, he gives the tone, the energy and, sure, the music may work without him, but it's like giving a reward to a movie without the lead actor. So majorly, yeah, he's only there for "props", but he's not there only for a presence, rather he sets every aspect of the music beforehand and passes it on to the orchestra(and yes, you would be surprised how much can be done with a set-in-stone already scored and written music) and basically is what the director is to a movie, a coach is to a team or even what a teacher is to a class. A bit metaphorical, but I hope it answered your question.
20 years later and the enemy theme in Hyrule Field still terrifies me
6 Years later but still absolutely stunning! Well done to the woodwind soloist, I may or may not have cried 3 separate times when the ocarina came out...
This medley is by far my favorite Legend of Zelda medley of the many I've listened to! Remarkably well composed and well performed. It's not afraid to embellish some melodies while still capturing the essence of the grand adventure that is the Zelda series. I especially LOVE the slow build of the original dungeon theme from mysterious and ominous to full on boss fight!
This is extremly beautiful - there is nothing pretentious about this performance, and the Zelda soundstrack we know and love were beautifully interpreted - and the French horns and the oboe sounded great, too =P
I listen to this weekly, if not more often. Brings back childhood memories; as I’m sure it does for most listening.
Me too
I do wonder sometimes if there are people listening in the audience or even the ones who are playing the orchestra that never have played any Zelda game... or maybe even never heard of it...
Since the whole SCORE project was entirely dedicated to video game music, I would think everyone knows what Zelda is :)
krb Yeah, you're probably right!
my plays were back during Super Nintendo. it would sound different than what the orchestra is playing now
I actually haven't played any Zelda games. Just came here for the music. :D
Fuck that Zelda bitch, It's Legend Of Link !
For a band geek that also games, this is heavenly.
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I actually cried when the ocarina was playing the title theme from oot, hands down my favorite video game of all time.
This is one of the best work of a orchester playing videogame-music I've ever heard
am i the only one that has to hold back tears when I hear Zelda's Lullaby? I dont know why but it strikes a chord with me that just makes my eyes start the water works and it is magnificent.
I actually play this sometimes at church during the altar call on piano…all my church ppl are over 60 so they don’t know it but it’s so beautiful it moves peoples spirit 🧡🧡🧡
Ever since I was a little kid in the mid-80's I always kinda knew that the OG Zelda dungeon theme was the MOST EPIC GOTHIC POWER JAM of all time!
Incredible! I wish I can attend to one of these someday.
+Vyz3r If you're able to, do so - I'm going to my fourth this March and I absolutely LOVE them :)
Colin W.
I really wish I could but I don't exactly have the right time, money and location to attend one.
I actually cried. Just a straight up roller coaster of emotions. This series encapsulates the best times in my childhood and helped me through the worst. Everything in my earlier years was changing and shifting around, but no matter what I knew I always had a home. In Hyrule. That will never change. Thanks for this video
It's composed and played so perfectly.
I think I have just discovered perfection!
Nice to see you here, love your music and your covers very much :)
they're so good at understanding the tone and style of each piece, like they understand the story and setting behind them. You can really hear it in Hyrule Castle and Hyrule Field pieces.
The actual Zelda Orchestra sounds way better than this, but this is amazing
Im absolut on your opinion. This is a timeless masterpiece and the dungeon theme espacially is stunning.
The performance of the Hyrule Field suite literally brought me to tears. Kondo’s field themes are always excellent (see Wind Waker sailing theme) but the wide swath of emotions in this particular suite from the atonal enemy variation to the innocence and naïveté of the “standing still” portion, performed by a live orchestra, was almost too much for this soul to bear. Bravo to you sirs and madames.
Koji Kondo is really a genius. He literally wrote EVERY Score of Mario and Zelda Games, even the oldest ones
He stopped being the main composer somewhere in the early 2000s
Totally agreed. Koji is a genius.
Not zelda 2 though
im really wondering why the heck Koji Kondo suddently nearly dissapeared from the major AAA Nintendo games by the beginning of the 2000s - ironically after the OoT masterwork!
There must have had something going internally.. Maybe salary battles, other disputes with the management, maybe illness/depression... SO strange.
@@HA-no3jh Actually no, he continues to compose videogame music, he don't just compose all the music in the games, as he is not the main composer: For example, in Mario Galaxy 2 he composed 5 pieces (Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla, Yoshi star Galaxy and the Starship Mario 1, 2 and 3)
Happy 30 years of the legend of Zelda!!!!
Yeesh, It's been that long?
@The Kehwanna Coast
No it's only been two days :P
The Kehwanna Coast Yup, Skyward sword was the 25th anniversary, and that came out in 2011. So happy 30 years ;)
Series is two years older than me, damn
Am I the only one crying?
+Benzene , I cried the whole session
No +Benzene i crying. This whole memorys comming back. Its so beautifull
I was amaze the entire time, in the first songs smiling... but then the Ocarina title theme began... with the real ocarina, it was so heavy... so powerful... like hearing the song for first time and saying, "This gonna be the best game I gonna play, I cant wait"...
Nope. Count me in.
i get emotional listening to this and i don't know why. Other music can't seem to have similar effects. I guess it must be the game itself. Just imagine all these people playing a song composed by a single japanese composer. When i hear this i can see link running on the screen. Koji KOndo is a god no doubt.
An absolute masterpiece, any old school Zelda fan from the 90’s would be smiling through this video as much as I have been.
The Zelda 1 Dungeon theme brought tears to my eyes.
I don’t understand why I’m bawling
absolutely beautiful, played legend of zelda for the first time when i was 12 and fell in love with it
now im 20 and listening to this brings a tear to my eye
truely deserving the title 'legend' of zelda
Nice! I was in my early twenties. Maybe 23. Link To The Past on the Super Nintendo. Now I'm 51, still in love with the series and, like you, tears in my eyes as I hear this beautiful rendition!
@@al201103 That’s awesome to hear!! I was 6 years old in 1992 when I first played link to the past. My dad got me into the original ones like legend of Zelda and Zelda 2
I can’t believe it’s been so long..36 years of Zelda I hope for the 40th anniversary they do something nice like remaster ocarina of time.
@@JoeyBK_86 It's such a wonderful series to have in our lives! Agree, I'd love to see a remaster of Ocarina!
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35 years after releasing and the music of the main theme still gives me goose bumps.
I listened to this whole thing with my eyes closed thinking back to the times I would wake up early as a kid excited to play. Thank you for this nostalgic overload 😌
I always appreciate an orchestra that takes game music seriously. There's so much beautiful orchestral music in games. Music that if you performed it to a crowd that doesn't know games would still appreciate it on the merits.
DOES NOT EVER EVER EVER GET OLD...Timeless
i swear zelda games has one of the best soundtracks ever in gaming. even the first 8-bit pieces
I think this is part of why I get so emotional when I hear the orchestral arrangements. The main theme in 8 bit is such a fantastic tune! When we started playing each time and were heralded with that piece, it may have only been simple tones but in our hearts, it was an epic orchestra. And now here we are, all these years later, and the orchestra has arrived to make our heart's song a reality. Seriously, I think the real-world interpretation of our excitement entering the world each time is the thing that gets me.
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The Dungeon theme arrangement @10:54 is nothing short of miraculous. It's sublime. Congratulations to everyone involved in this project! This performance surpasses any adaptation of Zelda I've heard👏👏👏
9:20 - 10:40 Best part of HYRULE CASTLE! Im crying!
Sound is the most powerful force imaginable. Whether through spoken word or song, sound can move mountains, as it can our souls, to the brink of collapse. From the ethereal harp at the opening to the noble call of the french horns, this performance is simply beautiful.
Headass, but yeah, this is a great event.
If I were Koji Kondo, I would feel honored that someone took my work and arranged it into something so beautiful. Between this and the Mario theme, the guy will forever be a part of modern culture for sure.
Everytime I hear an orchestra playing a symphony from the Legend of Zelda, I cannot hold the tears in.
AMAZING!!! THE LEGEND OF ZELDA FOREVER!
ALWAYS :)
Sadly Probably not anymore ...i'm just talking about botw...
This is the most beautiful arrangement I have EVER heard in my entire life hands down
I can't get over the sheer respect put into these arrangements, the nes dungeon theme was just incredible
All the green lights set the scene perfectly. I'm a green lover so it adds to the feels. That flute/ocarina player with the glasses is cute, too.
Absolutely incredible arrangement by Nils-Petter Ankarblom of Koji Kondo's compositions. 11 minutes onwards to the finale is utterly amazing! Can you imagine Kondo listening here to his humble 8-bit NES dungeon composition (1988) superbly orchestrated and then blending into his iconic NES overworld composition? Wow!! Nils-Petter Ankarblom really did a tremendous job arranging this with touch and creativity. You don't understand what it means for a child of that generation to hear these early console themes (NES/SNES/N64) woven skillfully together into a superb orchestral medley. It strikes a very sentimental nerve. Nils-Petter Ankarblom deserves an "Order of Nostalgia" for this work. Full props to the wonderful SRSO musicians and conductor Charles Hazlewood!
I'm sure he's heard it. It's not like he's dead ☠️
This is one of the most beautiful scores I have ever heard.
the dungeon theme is out of this world, an amazing performance. Im so proud of being a swede. Cheers
06:42 The first note of the harp already made me cry. So much memories. The feeling of carelessness as a child... I think i am not ready to be an adult yet. When i play the game now - its not the same. We all are now in trouble with our jobs, relationships and life in general. I dont have the patience for such a game like i had back when i was a child. But this theme reminds me of that feeling i had when i played it 20 years before...
This whole thing sounds like it was arranged by John Williams, Aaron Copeland, and Danny Elfman. I loved it! Such a beautiful performance. Ganon is so screwed. We've got this! Also I may have cried a little when she broke out the ocarina.
main theme actually sounds like the star wars theme.
WHO DIDN’T! It was an actual ocarina being played for the title them of “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”! It was amazing to hear it
You are not alone!
I don't hear Danny, who's my favorite composer, but John for sure!
I hope my comment would bring more visitors because this piece of art deserves more views, whether you are a Zelda fan or not.
Clicked on this expecting just to listen to a sample. Wound up listening to the whole thing. Enjoyed every bit!
To think Koji Kondo wrote the earlier Zelda compositions even with the significant limitations of the contemporaneous hardware is mind blowing. Genius.
The main theme at the end brings me to tears every time. Just seeing the conductor at 15:19 putting his all into it as the orchestra comes to a thunderous crescendo…simply magnificent