"This must be such a powerfully moving part of the video game" *Me thinking back on how I was enjoying the music while putting a big kettle on the shopkeepers head so he wouldn't see me steal all his stuff*
😂😂 that's part of what makes these kind of tracks so memorable, there's no one specific scene or moment associated with them universally (like there would be if it was a film or more cinematic style of game) because we just hear them on repeat while playing, but there are on a personal level because we all remember specific moments from our playthrough
What's so crazy about this song is that it is NOT playing while some incredible moment is happening. It's playing while you are just wandering around the town of Whiterun and other parts of Skyrim. You could say this song does more worldbuilding for Skyrim than all the exposition of the story ever did. Skyrim is a harsh, cold, but beautiful and magical world - for those with the strength to survive.
@@kamitorings Please stop looking for attention. Skyrim is objectively one of the most influential games of all time. If you don't like it, fair enough. But most people do
Sometimes while this song is playing in game, it makes me so emotional that I have to appear offline on my console so no one bothers me from listening to it.
@@rpgeebzmusicarcade The game is literally just full of tracks like this. Definitely one of the greatest soundtracks ever, and not just in gaming in my opinion
Whiterun is the first major city in the game the player will likely come across in Skyrim. For many players, this city will be your main hub where you store all of your gear, ingredients, materials, etc. because getting a house in this city is fairly easy early on. It's kind of pain to move your stuff from one house to a different house later on in the game, so most players will just keep using it. Because of that, this track is going to be very memorable for a lot of players because you're always returning here during your 200 hour adventure, at least 50 or 100 times.
What I love about the Skyrim soundtrack is Geebz can hear this and say "wow this must be a really moving part of the game", when no this is just one of the pieces that can play when walking around just one of the locations. The whole soundtrack is like this (though this piece is my favourite) which is why the game was in turn so uniquely atmospheric and the music has stuck with so many of us for 12 years since it came out.
got to love just how much effort Jeremy Soule puts into background music for the even the least important parts of the game, such as this piece for just wandering around a town with absolutely no imortance placed on it what so ever, they use music in games to set a mood and in games like Skyrim the music is always playing in the background setting the mood for literally everything from the important to the mundane.
I have spent thousands of hours in Skyrim and this is my favorite track in the game. I used to put this on repeat and fall asleep to it every night. This is the London Symphony Orchestra playing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Skyrim, 2011 to 2021.
Glad you got to experience it. The Skyrim soundtrack has been in my regular rotation for the last 12 years. Streets of Whiterun is certainly one of the best. Dragonborn, Standing Stones, Wind Guide You, and Tundra are also my top tier.
I guess the beauty of being a musician - (I play cello in the orchestra)is even Game OST’s can bring such joy and reward, this piece brought tears to my eyes, as it was purposefully written in the key that emotionally strikes people. A clever beautifully written piece for that purpose. I’d be interested in what you thought on the rest of Skyrim performances. And your absolutely correct on the slight hand transition that allows us to sustain a note to an almost never ending legato with our up bowing and down bowing. On the squeaking noise we actually bring them back into compositions especially to show emotion like you’d get during a flamenco duel.. So it’s import to produce those harmonic squeals as it is to remove them. But yeppers Great Cello playing here very smooth transitions and I personally love this passage of music.
I heard this song again after many years last night and I just began to tear, I had no idea why, just made me think back to a time, back in 2011 I remember hearing this song for the first time back then and was taken aback by it just made me so much more hype...now a days Im just growing old, and back then I had my friends with me, now they all have left for distant pastures, and I think back to how excited we were about Skyrim coming out, ah those were the days, just couldnt hold back my tears listening to this track...lotsa love to all of us to Soverngard
Love what you said about the orchestra musicians at the beginning, i totally agree i have a lot of respect for the dedication they have put into the craft *wow the choir sounds amazing on this too! I was in love with choir when i was in school, i spent 6 years in choir (3 of those years i was in both standard choir and our smaller jazz choir and we even won first place at a national competition it was amazing)
Standing on the top of a virtual mountain, in the middle of a swirling virtual snowstorm, staring into the distance of a virtual nightscape while this intensely sad and beautiful song plays is something that still gives me goosebumps a decade on...
This was beautiful. You hardly notice it in game because your mind is usually busy with in game tasks and there are also more bombastic action melodies that grab your attention better, but it's definitely recognizable and great.
You don't really notice the music because it fits so seamlessly with the world. As though the music is coming out of the rocks, trees and sky. As though it belongs. That's why the music of Skyrim is so brilliant. And why people still love and go back to the soundtrack, even after so many years since it was first released. Jeremy is the master.
Skyrim has one of my favorite soundtracks of any game. When I want to feel immediate inspiration or be transported to another world, I just pop it on. I hope you get to play the game one day! I'd love to see your reaction to it! 😊
The whole soundtrack is like this.. I am not a musician, but I know good music that makes me tear up. I bought this game in 2001.. I'm now 40 years old and I still listen to this soundtrack twice a week. When I sleep, when I need to relax, when I work hard, when I need a break. Jeremy Soule is my hero when it comes to music. He hit all the buttons for me and will continue to do so tonight.
Walking Skyrim at night with its own sound tracks. It's just so beautiful. Btw, You said "this must be a powerful moving part of the video game", this is just the typical ambient music of walking around. It's meant for exploring the city of Whiterun, but it can play just about anytime you're walking outside. One of my favorite sounds to hear at night with the crickets, waterfalls, and wind
I think Shyrim has a beautiful way to create music that makes you feel something that's more akin to homesickness. And I mean not just when listening to the music after playing it, playing it the first time there's a bittersweet longing for peace that I always feel when listening to this piece, and for example Far Horizons, Ancient Stones or Kyne's Peace. Thank you for your reaction Geebz! I hope you'll listen to more beautiful tracks from this game and enjoy their unique atmosphere :)
I adore all of the ost to skyrim. I have a 10 hour compilation of the more relaxing songs in skyrim. Perfect to listen to whilst doing nothing sleeping or going for a walk.
I was first introduced to Jeremy Soule's work in BioWare's Neverwinter Nights. Even without actually knowing who he was, I was instantly drawn into Skyrim's music because it felt so familiar and heartwarming.
Jeremy Soules music score in Skyrim is an absolute masterpiece and probably the greatest Music score in any game ever. it an enormous part of the game and the main reason the game is so atmospheric. Standing stones is one hell of a piece of music and gets me everytime
I really do hope you have a chance to play one of the later elder scrolls games Thay are magical to experience the first time Minecraft grows on you over time, but Skyrim and it's kin will hit hard quickly, even when you get bored of each installment you'll want more
Coming back to the Whiterun after defeating Alduin the World eater, Miraak the Dragonborn, Molag Bal the God of Schemes in Vigilant mod, Braving a New World in Enderal, getting out from The Lost City, saving that Khajiit girl from the mod which i forgot the name :D, and after so many other adventures...
This is awesome, Geebz. Got my start to music in orchestra with the viola and have the same appreciation for them. It's really heartwarming to hear you talk about that.
Geebs I'm gonna tell you I'm jealous of you if you ever play this game experiencing skyrim the first time is literally magical just pure adventure getting immersed and lost in a world that feels alive.
I can definitely feel that hopelessness he's talking about. it evokes feelings of despair, hopelessness, loss, but also acceptance. we know the end is coming and we are sad about it but we will not resist fate. instead we make the most of the time we have left by going about our lives as if nothing is changing. theres also a dreamlike quality about it that carries across most of the Elder Scrolls music.
Other great tracks. Sky above, voice within Ancient Stones Tundra Most of Jeremy Soules score is great, i still sleep to Skyrim Atmospheres track. His early game scores were just as good. Gisnts Citzen Kabuto being one
Lovely stuff, watched this concert several times over, which is safe to say easily worth doing. Aurora being my personal favourite piece, I do have to convince you on Sky Above, Voice Within. Originally a piece with the whole orchestra, they do a capella style here with divine harmonies. To me a spiritual experience, although i am a sucker for choirs.
One of the best parts of Skyrim is just wandering in the world listening to the ambient music while you walk through snowy woods and torchlit towns. Would love to see you play it
Streets of Whiterun is always at its best when just aimlessly exploring Skyrim at night. You just get lost into the game. I still play it a lot in 2024 after all these years when it first came out in 2011. Imho, Skyrim is still the greatest game ever.
This whole concert that they did for the 10th anniversary of Skyrim was done during COVID, thus no audience and masks. But, they did such a great performance overall. You should react to "Unbroken Road" and "Death or Sovngarde" from this same concert.
Song is so good, when you consider it's a tune written for one town in one game and it's better than 99% of music released in the past 20 years, it really shows how talented the writer is
"This must be such a powerfully moving moment in the game. It's so pulling. There's like a mysterious hopelessness in this vibe." The thing is that the game isn't sequenced like that, with set moments as if it were a directed scene in a film. It's non-linear in the biggest possible way, in that you're just invited into a wide open world where you can get lost in whatever adventure crosses your path. This song like most songs are not scripted to a beat in a story, but instead they are pieces that can play as you just walk around going about your own adventure. But there are themes to the world you step into, which certainly are evoked by this song - the "mysterious hopelessness" as you called it. It could be calling you to feel the climate you're in: a cold, and harsh northern land.. where hardy people live simple, but rough lives - but stop for a moment and you can sense a calm stillness in the night, and as you look up at the stars you see the northern lights dancing in the sky and you can feel an ancient magic in the cold air.
What's funny about Whiterun is that while it isn't the first video game city to really feel like home to me, it was the one at the beginning of a new era for me. One of Skyrim's greatest strengths is that it makes the mundane beautiful. Even simply walking around town has such a beautiful theme to it. There's a reason Skyrim has the reputation that it does among gamers.
I had the pleasure of working with Douglas Bostock back in 2010 as a saxophone soloist. We played a symphonic re-imagining of The Queen hits. Hearing the harp being the backbone of the melody gave me such nostalgia. It is such an ephemeral experience being a part of such a grand gesture. It might sound too poetic, but what comes closest to mind in such a moment: it's like floating amongst the stars hahaah :D
For those who don't know it is the music of your house that you buy in the game and you heard that when you are decorating ,chilling inside it or talking to your compagnons.
Jesus I love watching this guy dissect songs of my life. It's the perspective of someone older, but someone more appreciative of the music and the work than I am. A completely different viewpoint but someone who gets just as passionate as us about the songs of our lives and childhood.
Love your words in the beginning of the video! I don't play any instruments but always when I see an orchestra it's pure magic. There are people dedicating their whole life to music and they are able to play together so well that I shed a tear sometimes :D It's just beautiful (Oh, and the skyrim soundtrack + everything Jeremy Soule has done is awesome. Is prefer the Morrowind Soundtrack over Skyrim or Oblivion tbh, but all of them are great)
Favorite Skyrim track, and also a lifetime orchestral musician here. I absolutely love the chord progression of this piece, very nostalgic and ethereal - almost bittersweet. The only critique I have of this performance is I feel the Cello soloist was not mic'd quite enough. Sometimes the choir was over mic'd. But that's just because I have listened to the original track THAT many times - haha.
This is such a beautifull moment in the game. Some random *sshole calling your poor for no reason. Fr though, it is actually one of my favourite moments in the game. Seeing Adrianne and Idolaf talk about weapon supplies. Seeing the merchants in the market. Saffir and Amren discussing about his dumb sword. Heimskr preaching arround. I absolutely adore that feeling. Going to sell my hunted meat and crafting some hides. Buying a new bow from Elrindir (I often play unstealth archers so hunting is a big roleplay thing for me). Going to sleep at the Bannered Mare, cooking some venison you hunted that day and drinking an ale you bought with that steel sword you sold that you found on that corpse. For some reason, I enjoy living as an npc, on highest difficulty (if not higher with mods). Survival mode (with some extra mods). I really like doing that.
This is an arrangement by Inon Zur, who is an accomplished video game composer in his own right. But the composer is Jeremy Soule, who I consider to be a league above Inon Zur. Just my opinion though.
"This must be such a powerfully moving part of the video game"
*Me thinking back on how I was enjoying the music while putting a big kettle on the shopkeepers head so he wouldn't see me steal all his stuff*
😂😂 that's part of what makes these kind of tracks so memorable, there's no one specific scene or moment associated with them universally (like there would be if it was a film or more cinematic style of game) because we just hear them on repeat while playing, but there are on a personal level because we all remember specific moments from our playthrough
Geebz: "This must be a very moving part of the game"
Nazeem: "do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don't"
Dude I hear that in the nazeem voice. It's wild...I kill him as soon as I get to whiterun everytime, always in the most creative way.
What's so crazy about this song is that it is NOT playing while some incredible moment is happening. It's playing while you are just wandering around the town of Whiterun and other parts of Skyrim.
You could say this song does more worldbuilding for Skyrim than all the exposition of the story ever did.
Skyrim is a harsh, cold, but beautiful and magical world - for those with the strength to survive.
I always hear the tink tink of the smith's hammer in the background in this song.
Good contrast to the awkward and clunky exposition from Idolaf and Adrianne at the gates :D
Took the words out of my mouth man. Almost every track of the Skyrim ost is incredible
Bet the devs where just listening to the tracks while programming haha 😂
"Fight... or die well."
skyrim is one of those games everyone needs to experience at least once in their lives
Agreed, it's such a great game
The last game I bought on release day.
shit video game but the music is one of those things that makes the game less shit.
nothing comes close to what skyrim is as a game, its a buggy awkward funny game sometimes, but the rest its just so perfectly done
@@kamitorings Please stop looking for attention. Skyrim is objectively one of the most influential games of all time. If you don't like it, fair enough. But most people do
Jeremy Soule. Instant multigenerational nostalgia for the masses. You just can't go wrong with him
@@soulsnack8971 Damn didn't hear about that. but yeah great music
@@jamesc5801he also produced OST for Harry Potter game and it has such nostalgic impact, try to listen to it too
"A Nord's last thoughts should be of home."
This piece always sounds like coming home.
Breezehome, specifically
"This must be such a powerfully moving part of the videogame" It's literally background music.
Every time I listen to this song I tear up.
It’s literally the feeling of where you belong in musical form
Sometimes while this song is playing in game, it makes me so emotional that I have to appear offline on my console so no one bothers me from listening to it.
me too😢
same here friend, same here
If there's a game Geebz needs to play, it's Skyrim! The songs are so good and cozy, my favorite is Secunda
as soon as I get my new video card :)
@@rpgeebzmusicarcade Oh cool! Can't wait!! :D Seeing someone experience this game for the first time is gonna be a blast!
@@rpgeebzmusicarcade Cannot wait!!
You will love it Geebz
@@rpgeebzmusicarcade The game is literally just full of tracks like this. Definitely one of the greatest soundtracks ever, and not just in gaming in my opinion
YES. I absolutely need you to dive into all of the Elder Scrolls music. You will not be disappointed in the least bit.
Fus Ro Dah...
Jeremy Soule's music heals the soul(e)
Jeremy Soule has a huge and amazing backlog of music. Almost all of it is incredible.
I agree
Far Horizons is an absolutely incredible track
Whiterun is the first major city in the game the player will likely come across in Skyrim. For many players, this city will be your main hub where you store all of your gear, ingredients, materials, etc. because getting a house in this city is fairly easy early on. It's kind of pain to move your stuff from one house to a different house later on in the game, so most players will just keep using it. Because of that, this track is going to be very memorable for a lot of players because you're always returning here during your 200 hour adventure, at least 50 or 100 times.
it's the sound of coming home
Skyrim is one of the most inmersive games you can ever try to play. Music is great.
Everyone remembers getting lost into their first Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim was my first and it was magical. The music is indeed seared into players.
Getting lost in Skyrim ain't got nothing on getting lost in Morrowind.
@@naphackDTTrue that, like lost for reals.
This song made me cry
What I love about the Skyrim soundtrack is Geebz can hear this and say "wow this must be a really moving part of the game", when no this is just one of the pieces that can play when walking around just one of the locations. The whole soundtrack is like this (though this piece is my favourite) which is why the game was in turn so uniquely atmospheric and the music has stuck with so many of us for 12 years since it came out.
"Pulling" and "Mysterious hopelessness" - Nailed Whiterun.
got to love just how much effort Jeremy Soule puts into background music for the even the least important parts of the game, such as this piece for just wandering around a town with absolutely no imortance placed on it what so ever, they use music in games to set a mood and in games like Skyrim the music is always playing in the background setting the mood for literally everything from the important to the mundane.
I have spent thousands of hours in Skyrim and this is my favorite track in the game. I used to put this on repeat and fall asleep to it every night.
This is the London Symphony Orchestra playing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Skyrim, 2011 to 2021.
Skyrim has some of the most beautiful ambient music ever made. Makes me emotional.
It's such a sweet, mellow piece. It plays as walk the streets of Whiterun, and you hear the sound of the blacksmith, birds, humans chatting.
Glad you got to experience it. The Skyrim soundtrack has been in my regular rotation for the last 12 years. Streets of Whiterun is certainly one of the best. Dragonborn, Standing Stones, Wind Guide You, and Tundra are also my top tier.
Wind guide is for sure my favourite, i dont think it gets enough credit
I guess the beauty of being a musician - (I play cello in the orchestra)is even Game OST’s can bring such joy and reward, this piece brought tears to my eyes, as it was purposefully written in the key that emotionally strikes people. A clever beautifully written piece for that purpose. I’d be interested in what you thought on the rest of Skyrim performances. And your absolutely correct on the slight hand transition that allows us to sustain a note to an almost never ending legato with our up bowing and down bowing. On the squeaking noise we actually bring them back into compositions especially to show emotion like you’d get during a flamenco duel.. So it’s import to produce those harmonic squeals as it is to remove them. But yeppers Great Cello playing here very smooth transitions and I personally love this passage of music.
Wanna talk about game OST's that take you to another world? Skyrim and Oblivion do that for me. I can listen to them front to back all day.
Skyrim has the best Soundtrack ever, be it game or movie. Fight me.
I heard this song again after many years last night and I just began to tear, I had no idea why, just made me think back to a time, back in 2011 I remember hearing this song for the first time back then and was taken aback by it just made me so much more hype...now a days Im just growing old, and back then I had my friends with me, now they all have left for distant pastures, and I think back to how excited we were about Skyrim coming out, ah those were the days, just couldnt hold back my tears listening to this track...lotsa love to all of us to Soverngard
Love what you said about the orchestra musicians at the beginning, i totally agree i have a lot of respect for the dedication they have put into the craft
*wow the choir sounds amazing on this too! I was in love with choir when i was in school, i spent 6 years in choir (3 of those years i was in both standard choir and our smaller jazz choir and we even won first place at a national competition it was amazing)
This song is what made Whiterun my guys home. The theme is just so...welcoming. it's as if the music welcoming you home.
Yes, Whiterun is the nicest place to live in Skyrim imo.
The medieval feeling this game gives is great, the music adds to that feeling when you are traveling in the empty spaces between objectives
This is really one of those tracks that makes you think about better times
This is one of my favorite pieces from Skyrim. Whenever I heard it, I was just transported to the world. It felt so real.
You had that same reaction as me when that violin-cello solo begins. The emotion she put into that instrument, damn.
Standing on the top of a virtual mountain, in the middle of a swirling virtual snowstorm, staring into the distance of a virtual nightscape while this intensely sad and beautiful song plays is something that still gives me goosebumps a decade on...
This was beautiful. You hardly notice it in game because your mind is usually busy with in game tasks and there are also more bombastic action melodies that grab your attention better, but it's definitely recognizable and great.
You don't really notice the music because it fits so seamlessly with the world. As though the music is coming out of the rocks, trees and sky. As though it belongs. That's why the music of Skyrim is so brilliant. And why people still love and go back to the soundtrack, even after so many years since it was first released. Jeremy is the master.
Skyrim has one of my favorite soundtracks of any game. When I want to feel immediate inspiration or be transported to another world, I just pop it on. I hope you get to play the game one day! I'd love to see your reaction to it! 😊
Ahh this ost hit me right in the feelings what a great game is Skyrim and the music is so good.
The whole soundtrack is like this.. I am not a musician, but I know good music that makes me tear up. I bought this game in 2001.. I'm now 40 years old and I still listen to this soundtrack twice a week. When I sleep, when I need to relax, when I work hard, when I need a break. Jeremy Soule is my hero when it comes to music. He hit all the buttons for me and will continue to do so tonight.
Kyne’s Peace is another amazing song from Skyrim that you definitely need to listen to. The vocals in it are just beautiful
Streets of whiterun is one my absolute favorites 😊
Walking Skyrim at night with its own sound tracks. It's just so beautiful.
Btw, You said "this must be a powerful moving part of the video game", this is just the typical ambient music of walking around. It's meant for exploring the city of Whiterun, but it can play just about anytime you're walking outside. One of my favorite sounds to hear at night with the crickets, waterfalls, and wind
One of my favorite songs for a game and perhaps my most favorite from Skyrim...just so magical and majestic
I'm putting this in my will to play at the funeral
I think Shyrim has a beautiful way to create music that makes you feel something that's more akin to homesickness. And I mean not just when listening to the music after playing it, playing it the first time there's a bittersweet longing for peace that I always feel when listening to this piece, and for example Far Horizons, Ancient Stones or Kyne's Peace. Thank you for your reaction Geebz! I hope you'll listen to more beautiful tracks from this game and enjoy their unique atmosphere :)
I adore all of the ost to skyrim. I have a 10 hour compilation of the more relaxing songs in skyrim. Perfect to listen to whilst doing nothing sleeping or going for a walk.
I was first introduced to Jeremy Soule's work in BioWare's Neverwinter Nights. Even without actually knowing who he was, I was instantly drawn into Skyrim's music because it felt so familiar and heartwarming.
The full video of that orchestra is amazing. Definitely watch it!
until this video i didnt know how much i need elder scrolls 6 to come out damn...
Jeremy Soules music score in Skyrim is an absolute masterpiece and probably the greatest Music score in any game ever. it an enormous part of the game and the main reason the game is so atmospheric. Standing stones is one hell of a piece of music and gets me everytime
So nice
I know I'm late to the party, but Secunda is another beautiful score from Skyrim
1:26 "Beenk!" The best hat tip sound ^_^
This song makes me tear up every time, and this is the first time I've heard this Orchestral version and wow. It's honestly incredible.
I really do hope you have a chance to play one of the later elder scrolls games
Thay are magical to experience the first time
Minecraft grows on you over time, but Skyrim and it's kin will hit hard quickly, even when you get bored of each installment you'll want more
Coming back to the Whiterun after defeating Alduin the World eater, Miraak the Dragonborn, Molag Bal the God of Schemes in Vigilant mod, Braving a New World in Enderal, getting out from The Lost City, saving that Khajiit girl from the mod which i forgot the name :D, and after so many other adventures...
This is awesome, Geebz. Got my start to music in orchestra with the viola and have the same appreciation for them. It's really heartwarming to hear you talk about that.
love how passionate you are bout the whole thing, awesome channel, love from trinidad!!
One of my favorite songs of all time. Nothing like the emotion that hits you in the face with this one, every time.
You should check out some of the other music from the Elder Scrolls series! I know I'm not the only one who would love to see that.
Geebs I'm gonna tell you I'm jealous of you if you ever play this game experiencing skyrim the first time is literally magical just pure adventure getting immersed and lost in a world that feels alive.
I can definitely feel that hopelessness he's talking about. it evokes feelings of despair, hopelessness, loss, but also acceptance. we know the end is coming and we are sad about it but we will not resist fate. instead we make the most of the time we have left by going about our lives as if nothing is changing.
theres also a dreamlike quality about it that carries across most of the Elder Scrolls music.
Other great tracks.
Sky above, voice within
Ancient Stones
Tundra
Most of Jeremy Soules score is great, i still sleep to Skyrim Atmospheres track.
His early game scores were just as good. Gisnts Citzen Kabuto being one
Lovely stuff, watched this concert several times over, which is safe to say easily worth doing. Aurora being my personal favourite piece, I do have to convince you on Sky Above, Voice Within. Originally a piece with the whole orchestra, they do a capella style here with divine harmonies. To me a spiritual experience, although i am a sucker for choirs.
Me too, i feel the same! I have massive respect for these musicians.
Haven’t got goosebumps like this in a long time
One of the best parts of Skyrim is just wandering in the world listening to the ambient music while you walk through snowy woods and torchlit towns. Would love to see you play it
Streets of Whiterun is always at its best when just aimlessly exploring Skyrim at night. You just get lost into the game. I still play it a lot in 2024 after all these years when it first came out in 2011. Imho, Skyrim is still the greatest game ever.
The Skyrim soundtrack is my happy place. I've spent so long wandering that world and listening to that soundtrack, its like an old friend.
The same man who composed this music also used a orchestral for Total Annihilation, a game that was released back in '97.
This whole concert that they did for the 10th anniversary of Skyrim was done during COVID, thus no audience and masks. But, they did such a great performance overall. You should react to "Unbroken Road" and "Death or Sovngarde" from this same concert.
Song is so good, when you consider it's a tune written for one town in one game and it's better than 99% of music released in the past 20 years, it really shows how talented the writer is
Kyne's peace and Sky above voice within are two incredible themes too of this orchestral ost. Could you please check theme? Regards from Spain
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"This must be such a powerfully moving moment in the game. It's so pulling. There's like a mysterious hopelessness in this vibe."
The thing is that the game isn't sequenced like that, with set moments as if it were a directed scene in a film. It's non-linear in the biggest possible way, in that you're just invited into a wide open world where you can get lost in whatever adventure crosses your path. This song like most songs are not scripted to a beat in a story, but instead they are pieces that can play as you just walk around going about your own adventure.
But there are themes to the world you step into, which certainly are evoked by this song - the "mysterious hopelessness" as you called it.
It could be calling you to feel the climate you're in: a cold, and harsh northern land.. where hardy people live simple, but rough lives - but stop for a moment and you can sense a calm stillness in the night, and as you look up at the stars you see the northern lights dancing in the sky and you can feel an ancient magic in the cold air.
What's funny about Whiterun is that while it isn't the first video game city to really feel like home to me, it was the one at the beginning of a new era for me. One of Skyrim's greatest strengths is that it makes the mundane beautiful. Even simply walking around town has such a beautiful theme to it. There's a reason Skyrim has the reputation that it does among gamers.
Jeremy Soule is beautiful
This song is so cozy and great to vibe to after a long day of hunting dragons 😁
I had the pleasure of working with Douglas Bostock back in 2010 as a saxophone soloist. We played a symphonic re-imagining of The Queen hits.
Hearing the harp being the backbone of the melody gave me such nostalgia. It is such an ephemeral experience being a part of such a grand gesture. It might sound too poetic, but what comes closest to mind in such a moment: it's like floating amongst the stars hahaah :D
Great video! Witcher 3 has a PHENOMENAL orchestra recording on YT!!
For those who don't know it is the music of your house that you buy in the game and you heard that when you are decorating ,chilling inside it or talking to your compagnons.
Jesus I love watching this guy dissect songs of my life. It's the perspective of someone older, but someone more appreciative of the music and the work than I am. A completely different viewpoint but someone who gets just as passionate as us about the songs of our lives and childhood.
skyrim has for me...the best musical arrangement in the gaming history
Skyrim Unbroken Road anniversary version is epic. I recommend to listning.
Love your words in the beginning of the video! I don't play any instruments but always when I see an orchestra it's pure magic. There are people dedicating their whole life to music and they are able to play together so well that I shed a tear sometimes :D It's just beautiful (Oh, and the skyrim soundtrack + everything Jeremy Soule has done is awesome. Is prefer the Morrowind Soundtrack over Skyrim or Oblivion tbh, but all of them are great)
The elder scrolls series sound tracks are amazjng. But My favorite music orchestra from a game will always be the Halo theme song.
Listen "Aurora"
beautiful song
This song is in winterhold which is the centermost of skyrim and it really shows the heart of skyrim in this song
"do you get to the cloud district very often? oh, what am i saying, of course you don-" **gets a dragon bone warhammer in the skull**
Favorite Skyrim track, and also a lifetime orchestral musician here. I absolutely love the chord progression of this piece, very nostalgic and ethereal - almost bittersweet.
The only critique I have of this performance is I feel the Cello soloist was not mic'd quite enough. Sometimes the choir was over mic'd. But that's just because I have listened to the original track THAT many times - haha.
yeezus effing kryst that is beautiful!
The London Philharmonic did New Horizons from Skyrim, it's gorgeous. And Secunda is an otherworldly classic.
This is such a beautifull moment in the game. Some random *sshole calling your poor for no reason. Fr though, it is actually one of my favourite moments in the game. Seeing Adrianne and Idolaf talk about weapon supplies. Seeing the merchants in the market. Saffir and Amren discussing about his dumb sword. Heimskr preaching arround. I absolutely adore that feeling. Going to sell my hunted meat and crafting some hides. Buying a new bow from Elrindir (I often play unstealth archers so hunting is a big roleplay thing for me). Going to sleep at the Bannered Mare, cooking some venison you hunted that day and drinking an ale you bought with that steel sword you sold that you found on that corpse. For some reason, I enjoy living as an npc, on highest difficulty (if not higher with mods). Survival mode (with some extra mods). I really like doing that.
I'm a new subscriber, and I recently found your reaction to skyrim music. Could you please post more videos on more of the songs from the game.
This is an arrangement by Inon Zur, who is an accomplished video game composer in his own right. But the composer is Jeremy Soule, who I consider to be a league above Inon Zur. Just my opinion though.
there are some epic soundtrack in this game you need to listen
I did an orchestral remake of this live version on my channel (the first minute). Such a beautiful interpretation ...
"You have come, you have come to hear the word from Talos himself"
You should listen to more Skyrim OSTs
this sounds so much better then in game
*orchestral applause* I'll remember that statement.
I felt like you were about to shed a tear at 4:00. First time i see that from you (maybe its just me lol)