Skyrim Streets of Whiterun Orchestral Version 

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.

skyrim is one of those games everyone needs to experience at least once in their lives

"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*

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"

"A Nord's last thoughts should be of home."

Jeremy Soule. Instant multigenerational nostalgia for the masses. You just can't go wrong with him

If there's a game Geebz needs to play, it's Skyrim! The songs are so good and cozy, my favorite is Secunda

YES. I absolutely need you to dive into all of the Elder Scrolls music. You will not be disappointed in the least bit.

This piece always sounds like coming home.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Streets of whiterun is one my absolute favorites 😊

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.

Skyrim has the best Soundtrack ever, be it game or movie. Fight me.

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.

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.

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)

Skyrim has some of the most beautiful ambient music ever made. Makes me emotional.

This song made me cry

"Pulling" and "Mysterious hopelessness" - Nailed Whiterun.

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.

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

Jeremy Soule is beautiful

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

Dammit, the music is such a great part of that game. Makes me want to play it right now. Except I can't stand the game without mods, and modding it is a long and grueling process.

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.

This is really one of those tracks that makes you think about better times

until this video i didnt know how much i need elder scrolls 6 to come out damn...

thanks bethesda and todd for their soundtracks in TES

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! 😊

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

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 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.

This is one of my favorite pieces from Skyrim. Whenever I heard it, I was just transported to the world. It felt so real.

This song is what made Whiterun my guys home. The theme is just so...welcoming. it's as if the music welcoming you home.

My respects for the composer Jeremy Soule and a shame that he is not evolved because the false accusation of the movement metoo, he bring dreams and inspiration with his music, is my daily music to work and sleep. I wish i could shake his hand for this beautiful work!

Ahh this ost hit me right in the feelings what a great game is Skyrim and the music is so good.

The full video of that orchestra is amazing. Definitely watch it!

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...

You should listen to more Skyrim OSTs

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.

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'm putting this in my will to play at the funeral

While Skyrim has great music I think Jeremy Soule's best work is the OST to Total Annihilation and you NEED to check it out.

The elder scrolls series sound tracks are amazjng. But My favorite music orchestra from a game will always be the Halo theme song.

Kyne’s Peace is another amazing song from Skyrim that you definitely need to listen to. The vocals in it are just beautiful

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

Listen "Aurora"

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.

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.

Great video! Witcher 3 has a PHENOMENAL orchestra recording on YT!!

"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.

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...

So nice

If you ever pick up a video game again please try Skyrim. It's what got me into all of the ambient and orchestrated music I've ever found over the past 12 years

love how passionate you are bout the whole thing, awesome channel, love from trinidad!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

You had that same reaction as me when that violin-cello solo begins. The emotion she put into that instrument, damn.

I know I'm late to the party, but Secunda is another beautiful score from Skyrim

would you consider reacting to all of the super smash bros. themes over the years? (Brawl is my favorite )

Skyrim Unbroken Road anniversary version is epic. I recommend to listning.

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.

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.

When are you going to do a full Skyrim OST reaction?

You should do a review on unbroken by Skyrim

1:26 "Beenk!" The best hat tip sound ^_^

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

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.

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.

The same man who composed this music also used a orchestral for Total Annihilation, a game that was released back in '97.

This is just background music that plays when you're not in combat, but it's interesting what you take away from listening to it

yeezus effing kryst that is beautiful!

Fable Oakvale or Berserk - Gats

Oh my god more skyrim pleassse

Fine, ill play skyrim again

So well articulated compared to the game soundtrack. The dynamics are really on point. Mysterious hopelessness 👌🏻

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

Bloodborne - Suite (Live with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra : SCORE Orchestral Game Music) this please!

One of my favorite songs for a game and perhaps my most favorite from Skyrim...just so magical and majestic

"such a powerful part of the video game" --- aka crafting 100,000 iron daggers

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.

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.

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.

more skyrim's reaction!

"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**

Ok maybe its a stretch, but this is the first video ive seen of this guy, and i immediately thought of the guy from Mr Holland's Opus.

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.

Oh this music. Just gonna breeze home real quick

Video Game Show - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Concert Danish Sym Orch

I did an orchestral remake of this live version on my channel (the first minute). Such a beautiful interpretation ...

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.