Digital epics, live in concert: Robert Ames and the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra perform classic gaming scores, from Final Fantasy to Battlefield 2042.
Mighty giants tumble and fall, young warriors struggle for liberty and love, and a princess of Hyrule strives to bring harmony to the cosmos. With its fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices, video gaming has always gone hand-in-hand with orchestral music 鈥� with games like Kingdom Hearts, Shadow of the Colossus and Dear Esther inspiring some of the most vivid and inventive sounds of our time.
Now the music of gaming breaks out from its screens and speakers into full, living, symphonic sound 鈥� as conductor Robert Ames takes an electronically-expanded 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra on a quest through infinite universes. Tonight we voyage from classic titles like The Legend of Zelda, through to Jessica Curry鈥檚 haunted soundscapes to the new worlds of Hildur Gudnandottir's critically acclaimed Battlefield 2042.
These beloved scores have never sounded more brilliant: and tonight, anyone can play.
This concert will be presented by Elle Osili-Wood from 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 Sound of Gaming, and recorded for a future episode of Sound of Gaming on 大象传媒 Radio 3 and 大象传媒 Sounds. Sound of Gaming is a monthly programme all about gaming music and its composers. You can listen to all episodes on 大象传媒 Sounds or ask your smart speaker to 鈥淧lay 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥�
Full Programme:
Takeshi Furukawa - The Last Guardian Suite
Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda Suite
Gustav Santaolalla - The Last of Us 鈥� All Gone (No Escape)
Koji Kondo - Tribute to Pok茅mon, Ecco and Secret of Mana (1990s Game Medley)
Inon Zur - Fallout 4, Main Theme
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VIII, Liberi Fatali
Robin Becker - Super Mario 3D World
Jessica Curry - Dear Esther - I Have Begun My Ascent/ So Let Us Melt 鈥� The Leaving
Hildur Gudnad贸ttir/Sam Slater - Battlefield 2042, excerpts
Jeremy Soule- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 鈥� From Past to Present
Yoko Shimomura/Hikaru Utada - Kingdom Hearts
Kow Otani - Shadow of the Colossus Suite
Ari Pulkkinnen - Angry Birds, Main Theme
Greg Edmonson 鈥� Uncharted, Medley
