I'm in love. I can't stop crying. :'( It's so beautiful that I have no words. At the climax of Eternal Recurrence, I was grinning like a fool while sobbing. I don't even know what to do with myself right now!
This music had an influence on me that I can't explain. I remember when I had the game in 94, I was 13. I heard the soundtrack and felt that for me it will define an idea of what beauty in music could be. Thank for this orchestral version which is fabulous.
Time flows like a river, and history repeats... I don't know what made me go searching for orchestral versios of SoM music, I didn't know there was any such thing, but I'm glad I did. This is taking me right back to my childhood. Took my brother and I six months to finish this game working together. Best memory: Finding out there was an 9th spear orb. It just popped out of a box one morning in the Mana Fortress while we were playing before school. My dad (awesome guy) let us be late for school so we could get to a save point.
+then33k4 I was 12, and I've never been great at video games. How many months did you beat me by? Because that's how many more months of fun I had with that game. Man it was great.
Did you do anything else during this time? I've finished games in a week but it was because I was a kid on summer vacation and had literally nothing else to do.
Me and my friend beat it when I was like 5-6 and he was 7-8, and it wasnt that hard for us then. I tried again with my brother when I was like 22 and him 20, and we did well until the mana fortress. It got annoyingly hard at that time and we stopped. Maybe we just didnt level enough :>
It`s strange how music can touch us in such a way, this brings me back to when my brother an I played Secret of mana on the super NES, now he is in a nursey home after having suffered Memingitis. memories of times well spent can truly overwhelm you when you hear great music such as this :)
I get mad nostalgic here, too. Can't stop the past. Sense memory is mighty. I remember when I was a kid playing this on the SNES with my cousin. We must have spent daaaaays playing this game, haha. Hey, it was really good. Secret of Evermore is a great game too, though I'd trade it over about a hundred times for an authentic localization of Secret of Mana 3. Oh, well. ROM's been translated since, what, like 1998? The past gets bigger as I get older and I don't know how I feel about that.
Anytime I hear performances like this I imagine amazing movies faithfully based on the games. Of course, Hollywood would WRECK it, so probably best to just close my eyes and let it live in my head.
This is so amazing and sends me chills down my spine and only part of it is nostalgia as I did not remember every musical piece. Having watched so many video game symphonic covers recently, I felt SoM got relatively little coverage. Maybe because the mana/seiken densetsu franchise fell into obscurity and SoM was never as important in Japan itself whereas it had a much bigger impact in America and especially Europe (where SoM was basically the only big Squaresoft game released during the SNES era....our first Final Fantasy was 7 unless we played American imports). SoM2 was the game that got me into emulation and fan translations. Inspired by that, my teenage self would take part in some, mostly failed, English to German fan translations. There are still so many great SNES RPGs which never got officialy translated. God bless the fan communities!
I was so young i cant even remember how young i was. I was born in 93, exactly the year secret of mana came out. When i was 3 years old we moved into another town in a small appartment and over us there was this family with two boys, one of my age and his older brother. And i remember that his older brother came up some day with secret of mana and we played the whole game in a weekend or so. It was the first time I've seen this kind of magical world and i thought it was the coolest thing i've ever seen !!!
One of greatest games and soundtracks ever designed for a 16-bit console. I wish modern RPG's captured the essence a soundtrack brought to us as gamers.
Man every time I listen to this I'm just blown away by how brilliant this arrangement is, from the sound effects at the beginning to the violin solo, the way the melody moves to the choir. Even with tiny nitpicks I can think of it doesn't matter--the style is just mindblowing and the transition of melodies is just epic. Nobody slacked with the details here. This was obviously done by someone who appreciated the original soundtrack and wanted to get everything out of it and make it even better.
This piece is like hearing the sound of the wind sweeping across the fields or the bellows of great trees, leaves rustling in harmony. The orchestration is inventive and refreshing. Listening to the music - It's like being kissed gently on the cheek by mother nature herself. This music reminds me of the natural world and all the external beauty that is worth seeing during our lives.
This is amazing. Secret of Mana is my favorite game, and I think it has the most brilliant soundtrack ever. You guys did such an amazing job with this!
I found this on youtube, stopped listening after 4 minutes, ordered the CD, put it in, cranked up the volume and cried when I first listened to it. Now I'll be attending the concert in July.
UN JUEGO QUE JAMAS OLVIDARE, Y ESTA SINFONIA MARAVILLOSA QUE TE HACE RECORDAR SU GRAN MUSICA, DE VERDAD ERA ALGO QUE TE MOTIVABA A SOÑAR, AUNQUE SUENE TONTO, PERO A VECES LOS JUEGOS CON ESTA MUSICA Y SU HISTORIA TE HACEN VER LAS COSAS DE OTRA MANERA !!!!! LARGA VIDA A SECRET OF MANA
+RagedTron same here :v back then iwas sitting in the audience there and had to cry during this medley. suddenly tears started to roll out and i was confused why :D
I was just searching around for secret of mana music since I started to play it again after a long while and wow I'm just blown away by this. Just plain incredible.
Those who were fortunate enough to attend this concert are lucky. I wish I could go to a concert that plays my favorites games music and actually brings me to tears like this does.
Hands down, best VG music of all time! If I was at this live performance I would have crapped myself from all the joy it would have brought me. Would have lost all control.
I'm SO glad they will repeat this concert this year in cologne, got my tickets the moment I knew about it. I don't even care for the rest of the songs, I'll be there just for this one.
i've been looking for something like that all over all these shivers in my spine, such a beautiful soundtrack adapted in such a beautiful, i honestly feel like crying of gratefulness :') thanks so much for the upload
Thank you so much for this video. I listened the whole concert as I somehow couldn't see the broadcast, but it doesn't matter, since this is ment to be listened. It's wonderful to see the orchestra though, so beautiful. And they still keep saying video games are not art...
I was there and listened to this wonderful concert, an when they played the Secret of Mana medley I secretly cried some tears.... it's so wonderful what they made of my childhood game...
No words to describe how this is magnificent.. My favorite music game of all time played like this. I'm shivering from the feeling it brings me.. Almost in tears.
It's a recurring thing among users with these nostalgic soundtracks and games, as if we are all connected by the same love and hate relationship between time and our memories. As if something we had in such a simple and innocent time of our childhood or past will never be relived again. I find solace in the mere fact that so many of us can congregate here on the net and share such feelings, to know that we are far from alone in our journeys to find such a beautiful thing again in this world.
This is... absolutely amazing. I think I'm going to buy three of these. One for me, and one for my brother and one for my sister for their birthday. I'm blown away, this is essentially my childhood, orchestrated, and put onto a CD
I actually had tears silently running down my cheeks and didn't click anything for a while even when the music was over... Nostalgia overcame me (I'm 29 now). Somehow, somewhere I lost the ability to be completely immersed in a story/ game/ music, in the way only a kid can be immersed, (and finds completely normal). I glimpsed and felt a bit of that young part in me listening to this. It was beautiful, but feels as a huge loss as well....
Awesome, How cool is it to hear something I took so seriously as a child, taken so seriously by professional musicians? Much Respect! Love the music to this game!
i cant believe they did this. secret of mana has some of the best music a square game ever had. the intro is among my most favorite intro themes ever. tied with the ballad that plays when terra and crew march on narshe in magitek armor in the opening of ff6.
I always knew at that time when I played this game that the music was very very special indeed. It´s truely awesome to see a `real life` performance like his, based on a relatively simple nintendo 16-bit game.
I am absolutely awestruck! That was some powerful stuff right there! I'm not a hardcore fan of secret of mana but Ive just recently started playing it on my iPhone, awesome game so far....
The arrangements of this is so good that Uematsu was convinced that one-to-one orchestral arrangement of game music is not the only way to arrange game music.
thats so awesome ! my childhood memorys ...... the sound of secert of mana is so nice to hear ! sometimes i got my old snes and play this awesome game !
I often went bare-knuckle as the girl, playing her as a fighter-healer. My brother, my friend and I did change up weapons so we could all use the upgraded weapons, but I stuck to melee weapons and used a lot of water (healing), fire and light (attack spells) magic so my best spells would level up. That was over two decades ago, but I still remember. And come to think of it, I remember my weapon of choice in caves was usually the axe (smash rocks) or whip (cross gaps). Definitely the whip in that cave with those Robin Hood raccoons.
I was there last year..in cologne..I have seen this concert live...and my tears dropped down...every song of this concert was so beautiful... The tickets for this year are sold out...what a pity...
I have to wonder how many people who hear this stuff (as a performer or audience member) have never played these games, never even heard of them, then they were part of this performance. And they got interested in the game(s) to see what kind of game had such enchanting music. It's about time that the best of the Square repertoire becomes available on record instead of the tinkety-tink of the midis that we first learned the music from.
Just beautiful...... I remember playing SOM back in the day the things that stuck with the was it's soundtrack and somber story. Chrono Trigger's sound track stays on my mind for some reason too....
I'm so happy they got the harmonies right, THIS TIME. (The old orchestral arrangement missed that exquisite dissonance). Thank God, somebody did this right.
You are so defenatly right @ Xouman4! This Video Games Era will (for some reason) never come back again I think. It is to sad to think about....but just face the truth: This WAS the best time EVER! The time when you buy a new game and played it for an hour or two an you begun to love it! Or in your words: they had a SOUL!
As a symphony player, it is a wonderful thing to play something fantasical, something other than Mahler, or Brahms or Beethoven. I love adaptations of Masahi Hamauzu, Hiroki Kikuta, and especially Koichi Sugiyama, and Nobuo Uematsu . Those who created music seemingly for simple "video games" have created something far more powerful and beautiful. Something even recognized orchestras are willing to play... and even have fun with.
It was such a beautiful concert. The Secret of Mana Suite was at least my favourite since I've wanted to hear the music orchestral since I've played the game frst time when I was 12. I hope the whole concert will be released on CD ^^
4:52 Into the Thick of It .. setting off an on adventure while not doing my homework back in the day. I don't remember much from back then, but I remember this.
That conductor is smiling all the time, he's making me wanna smile xD First thing I did after completing my playthrough of Secret of Mana was watching this, it's so epic! :3
I'm in love. I can't stop crying. :'( It's so beautiful that I have no words. At the climax of Eternal Recurrence, I was grinning like a fool while sobbing. I don't even know what to do with myself right now!
I feel ya ;) Its beautiful isnt it?
wtf??
@RebeccaETripp I'm in love with ua-cam.com/video/zLm4q_YVFh8/v-deo.html I can't stop listening. It's so beautiful I had to say the words ;)
RebeccaETripp you just give in and enjoy re-living all the memories of an epic game :)
Gehts noch 😬
This music had an influence on me that I can't explain. I remember when I had the game in 94, I was 13. I heard the soundtrack and felt that for me it will define an idea of what beauty in music could be.
Thank for this orchestral version which is fabulous.
Time flows like a river, and history repeats...
I don't know what made me go searching for orchestral versios of SoM music, I didn't know there was any such thing, but I'm glad I did. This is taking me right back to my childhood. Took my brother and I six months to finish this game working together.
Best memory: Finding out there was an 9th spear orb. It just popped out of a box one morning in the Mana Fortress while we were playing before school. My dad (awesome guy) let us be late for school so we could get to a save point.
+Geospasmic
.. how the fuck did you spend 6 motnhs beating this game.. ?
+then33k4 I was 12, and I've never been great at video games. How many months did you beat me by? Because that's how many more months of fun I had with that game. Man it was great.
Geospasmic
took me a week or two
Did you do anything else during this time? I've finished games in a week but it was because I was a kid on summer vacation and had literally nothing else to do.
Me and my friend beat it when I was like 5-6 and he was 7-8, and it wasnt that hard for us then. I tried again with my brother when I was like 22 and him 20, and we did well until the mana fortress. It got annoyingly hard at that time and we stopped. Maybe we just didnt level enough :>
It`s strange how music can touch us in such a way, this brings me back to when my brother an I played Secret of mana on the super NES, now he is in a nursey home after having suffered Memingitis. memories of times well spent can truly overwhelm you when you hear great music such as this :)
than play this music for him in the nursey home for him
I get mad nostalgic here, too. Can't stop the past. Sense memory is mighty. I remember when I was a kid playing this on the SNES with my cousin. We must have spent daaaaays playing this game, haha. Hey, it was really good. Secret of Evermore is a great game too, though I'd trade it over about a hundred times for an authentic localization of Secret of Mana 3. Oh, well. ROM's been translated since, what, like 1998?
The past gets bigger as I get older and I don't know how I feel about that.
Anytime I hear performances like this I imagine amazing movies faithfully based on the games.
Of course, Hollywood would WRECK it, so probably best to just close my eyes and let it live in my head.
Agonywolf Media I know! Me too! >.< You know they would totally destroy it.
Yep. Maybe as a TV show though, if just the right people were behind it. These stories are too long for one film, anyway.
Nah. Give it to Pixar or Disney and they'll do amazing things with it. 👍
+Tanklar You're definitely right there tanklar
+Zac Geraghty Give it to studio Ghibi
I can't believe I am sitting in a classroom right now with the person who arranged this thing.
That's inexpressible beautiful...
ShreddingDragon Give him our regards.
no you can't
I thought the arrangement and adaptation was a little unimaginitive myself, but it didn't stop me enjoying this immensely!
I'm listening to a lecture by him on Zoom right now! Well... it's not the same thing, but covid is a bitch.
This is so amazing and sends me chills down my spine and only part of it is nostalgia as I did not remember every musical piece. Having watched so many video game symphonic covers recently, I felt SoM got relatively little coverage. Maybe because the mana/seiken densetsu franchise fell into obscurity and SoM was never as important in Japan itself whereas it had a much bigger impact in America and especially Europe (where SoM was basically the only big Squaresoft game released during the SNES era....our first Final Fantasy was 7 unless we played American imports). SoM2 was the game that got me into emulation and fan translations. Inspired by that, my teenage self would take part in some, mostly failed, English to German fan translations.
There are still so many great SNES RPGs which never got officialy translated. God bless the fan communities!
I am 12 years old again with my two best friends and a multitap
Eight, here. When I first played it, anyway. And, yeah, total trip through time in your head, isn't it?
Lucky you had friends
I played this game using just one keyboard with my 2 cousins
I was so young i cant even remember how young i was. I was born in 93, exactly the year secret of mana came out. When i was 3 years old we moved into another town in a small appartment and over us there was this family with two boys, one of my age and his older brother. And i remember that his older brother came up some day with secret of mana and we played the whole game in a weekend or so. It was the first time I've seen this kind of magical world and i thought it was the coolest thing i've ever seen !!!
Same. Best comment goes to Troy!
wow that musician understands the guiding motif of that opening melody! you can feel it in the vibrato, such emotion!
Oh my god that's awesome how they even mimicked the sound effects of the birds! So amazing.
This game is a masterpiece, holding down the button to charge your attack for a minute included ;)
And then watching your attack go into a long animation sequence that completely whiffs the enemy. XD
hahahahahhaha True dat
...But masterpiece. To this day, I still think about SoM as one of the best game ever made.
One of greatest games and soundtracks ever designed for a 16-bit console. I wish modern RPG's captured the essence a soundtrack brought to us as gamers.
Gives me goosebumps. I love this game way too much.
Man every time I listen to this I'm just blown away by how brilliant this arrangement is, from the sound effects at the beginning to the violin solo, the way the melody moves to the choir. Even with tiny nitpicks I can think of it doesn't matter--the style is just mindblowing and the transition of melodies is just epic.
Nobody slacked with the details here. This was obviously done by someone who appreciated the original soundtrack and wanted to get everything out of it and make it even better.
This piece is like hearing the sound of the wind sweeping across the fields or the bellows of great trees, leaves rustling in harmony. The orchestration is inventive and refreshing. Listening to the music - It's like being kissed gently on the cheek by mother nature herself. This music reminds me of the natural world and all the external beauty that is worth seeing during our lives.
This is amazing. Secret of Mana is my favorite game, and I think it has the most brilliant soundtrack ever. You guys did such an amazing job with this!
I found this on youtube, stopped listening after 4 minutes, ordered the CD, put it in, cranked up the volume and cried when I first listened to it.
Now I'll be attending the concert in July.
Secret of Mana's music has always sounded so natural and lush. Especially "Into the thick of it."
This is nothing short of amazing.
UN JUEGO QUE JAMAS OLVIDARE, Y ESTA SINFONIA MARAVILLOSA QUE TE HACE RECORDAR SU GRAN MUSICA, DE VERDAD ERA ALGO QUE TE MOTIVABA A SOÑAR, AUNQUE SUENE TONTO, PERO A VECES LOS JUEGOS CON ESTA MUSICA Y SU HISTORIA TE HACEN VER LAS COSAS DE OTRA MANERA !!!!! LARGA VIDA A SECRET OF MANA
I grew up on this game, and this performance was absolutely masterful. Loved it!
+RagedTron same here :v
back then iwas sitting in the audience there and had to cry during this medley.
suddenly tears started to roll out and i was confused why :D
I completed this game with my mate one summer holiday when I was a kid, fantastic game!
I was just searching around for secret of mana music since I started to play it again after a long while and wow I'm just blown away by this. Just plain incredible.
I'm playing SoM on my snes right now, and had to find this music to share. Simply beautiful.
Those who were fortunate enough to attend this concert are lucky. I wish I could go to a concert that plays my favorites games music and actually brings me to tears like this does.
I was there in Cologne last year. Kikuta signed my Secret Of Mana module for SNES. This medley brought me to tears. So beautiful.
Hands down, best VG music of all time! If I was at this live performance I would have crapped myself from all the joy it would have brought me. Would have lost all control.
omg 2 min in and im already tearing up....
Brad Wilson Same here! memories come up.
So f***ing beautiful!
I'm SO glad they will repeat this concert this year in cologne, got my tickets the moment I knew about it. I don't even care for the rest of the songs, I'll be there just for this one.
i've been looking for something like that all over
all these shivers in my spine, such a beautiful soundtrack adapted in such a beautiful, i honestly feel like crying of gratefulness :') thanks so much for the upload
Thank you so much for this video. I listened the whole concert as I somehow couldn't see the broadcast, but it doesn't matter, since this is ment to be listened. It's wonderful to see the orchestra though, so beautiful. And they still keep saying video games are not art...
I was there and listened to this wonderful concert, an when they played the Secret of Mana medley I secretly cried some tears.... it's so wonderful what they made of my childhood game...
No words to describe how this is magnificent.. My favorite music game of all time played like this. I'm shivering from the feeling it brings me.. Almost in tears.
This is absolutely bloody fantastic....
So beautiful and just a perfect representation of the game. 10/10...
Goosebumps from just listening. AMAZING composition, I'm so glad this concert was a success!
It's a recurring thing among users with these nostalgic soundtracks and games, as if we are all connected by the same love and hate relationship between time and our memories. As if something we had in such a simple and innocent time of our childhood or past will never be relived again.
I find solace in the mere fact that so many of us can congregate here on the net and share such feelings, to know that we are far from alone in our journeys to find such a beautiful thing again in this world.
Sweeeeeeeet mother of GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooodess...
1:14 ….Tears started flowing…..out of nowhere!!!!
I got the chills when the choire started. this is so beautyfull
This is... absolutely amazing. I think I'm going to buy three of these. One for me, and one for my brother and one for my sister for their birthday. I'm blown away, this is essentially my childhood, orchestrated, and put onto a CD
when I was playing in the past secret of mana,I was amazed by this soundtrack......I love this.One of the best vgm ever writen.
I have no words!! I can only say.... FANTASTIC! I'm in love with the orchestral version of music's videogames!
this is the best thing ever
I actually had tears silently running down my cheeks and didn't click anything for a while even when the music was over... Nostalgia overcame me (I'm 29 now). Somehow, somewhere I lost the ability to be completely immersed in a story/ game/ music, in the way only a kid can be immersed, (and finds completely normal).
I glimpsed and felt a bit of that young part in me listening to this. It was beautiful, but feels as a huge loss as well....
I'm re-living my childhood while listening to this~~
Childhood? What are you waiting to play it again? Secret of mana is a timeless masterpiece.
replayed it this summer. I dont think theres a game re re re re played as many times. Takes Mamilo's advice....replay and rediscover !
Every time, a tear in my eye with several more on my cheeks from the beauty of this.
These goosebumps are starting to hurt
The best video game song ever made, in my opinion! So great to see such a lovely orchestration.
Now this is epic indeed. I mean each single song sounds already great, but this here is the icing on the cake.
Awesome, How cool is it to hear something I took so seriously as a child, taken so seriously by professional musicians? Much Respect! Love the music to this game!
When I played the game as a kid this is what I heard in my head. :*)
The only member of the symphony who's ever actually played Secret of Mana at 8:17
I want these guys to play at my funeral. Nostalgic bliss... Story of my life.
yes i think we will. at least we recorded everything in the studio last week. thank you everybody for being so enthusiastic about our concert...
i cant believe they did this. secret of mana has some of the best music a square game ever had. the intro is among my most favorite intro themes ever. tied with the ballad that plays when terra and crew march on narshe in magitek armor in the opening of ff6.
I just relived my entire childhood while crying my eyes out like a bitch. I'd donate my life for the person who made this possible
Mike Müllejans me too.. haha i have teaaaaaars in my eyes
I'm so amazed... it's such a beatiful medley... I'm just loosing my breath...
I always knew at that time when I played this game that the music was very very special indeed. It´s truely awesome to see a `real life` performance like his, based on a relatively simple nintendo 16-bit game.
I know the feeling. Just watching this video makes me want to cry. It's just so beautiful.
It is really wonderful!!
It has been moved to tears.
I am absolutely awestruck! That was some powerful stuff right there! I'm not a hardcore fan of secret of mana but Ive just recently started playing it on my iPhone, awesome game so far....
no comment, just a tear for all the time, i have spend on this best game ever....
It made me cry. This is so beautiful.
Childhood memories.♥
I want to see them.
goosebumbs and melting eyes.
The arrangements of this is so good that Uematsu was convinced that one-to-one orchestral arrangement of game music is not the only way to arrange game music.
Juraj Cizmarovic on 1. violin... so impressive.
I'm grateful and deeply touched.
thats so awesome ! my childhood memorys ...... the sound of secert of mana is so nice to hear ! sometimes i got my old snes and play this awesome game !
Beautiful performance!
How can ANYBODY hate this?!!! Pure fucking genius. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music to ever invade my eardrums.
The arranger's name is Jonne Valtonen (Finland). He did a great job on this concert for sure :)
Musics from Secret of Mana always remind me of the good old summer days.
I felt a chill at 4:51. This is awesome!
John Haley Were you bursting cave bats with the sword?
I often went bare-knuckle as the girl, playing her as a fighter-healer. My brother, my friend and I did change up weapons so we could all use the upgraded weapons, but I stuck to melee weapons and used a lot of water (healing), fire and light (attack spells) magic so my best spells would level up.
That was over two decades ago, but I still remember. And come to think of it, I remember my weapon of choice in caves was usually the axe (smash rocks) or whip (cross gaps). Definitely the whip in that cave with those Robin Hood raccoons.
1:16 actually brought me to tears. I thank the composer and KajunW for uploading this.
Tears literally. Nothing comes close.
A shiver ran from all the way up my spine at 4:56 when I realised what they were about to play
I was there last year..in cologne..I have seen this concert live...and my tears dropped down...every song of this concert was so beautiful...
The tickets for this year are sold out...what a pity...
Everything that is precious to me, right here.
so dermaßen geil....fehlt nur noch das remaster of secret of mana auf Wii U von Square Enix mit der Musik!
Wie geil wär das denn..... unforstellbar...
kommt ja jetzt für ps4 :D
i cant find any words for this....
just WOW!
I have to wonder how many people who hear this stuff (as a performer or audience member) have never played these games, never even heard of them, then they were part of this performance. And they got interested in the game(s) to see what kind of game had such enchanting music. It's about time that the best of the Square repertoire becomes available on record instead of the tinkety-tink of the midis that we first learned the music from.
Just beautiful...... I remember playing SOM back in the day the things that stuck with the was it's soundtrack and somber story. Chrono Trigger's sound track stays on my mind for some reason too....
i think this is the best symphonic fantasies medley
I'm so happy they got the harmonies right, THIS TIME. (The old orchestral arrangement missed that exquisite dissonance).
Thank God, somebody did this right.
They were full of praise! You can read their interviews at the website Square Enix Music Online.
Beautifully said, I couldn't agree more with that sentiment.
Every Time the violins start to play at the beginning, i start crying.
man i hope they release an album for this, id like to have secret of mana in orchestral form, this is great stuff. i feel 10 again
You are so defenatly right @ Xouman4!
This Video Games Era will (for some reason) never come back again I think.
It is to sad to think about....but just face the truth: This WAS the best time EVER!
The time when you buy a new game and played it for an hour or two an you begun to love it!
Or in your words: they had a SOUL!
As a symphony player, it is a wonderful thing to play something fantasical, something other than Mahler, or Brahms or Beethoven. I love adaptations of Masahi Hamauzu, Hiroki Kikuta, and especially Koichi Sugiyama, and Nobuo Uematsu . Those who created music seemingly for simple "video games" have created something far more powerful and beautiful. Something even recognized orchestras are willing to play... and even have fun with.
5:20 shivers down my spine. Great stuff!
I'm gonna be there! Symphonic Fantasies 2012 and I got tickets... this is gonna be SO frickin AWESOME!!! :)
it was overwhelming to be there, like a trip back in time
It was such a beautiful concert. The Secret of Mana Suite was at least my favourite since I've wanted to hear the music orchestral since I've played the game frst time when I was 12. I hope the whole concert will be released on CD ^^
4:52 Into the Thick of It .. setting off an on adventure while not doing my homework back in the day. I don't remember much from back then, but I remember this.
Wow! music is amazing
well done! this game's music deserved an orchestral version
It will be released on CD. According to the official website, the music is going to be mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Chills all over my body!
That conductor is smiling all the time, he's making me wanna smile xD
First thing I did after completing my playthrough of Secret of Mana was watching this, it's so epic! :3
I wonder if Hiroki Kikuta got to watch and listen to this.
He did, and he LOVED it.