The Legend of Zelda - Suite (Live with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra : SCORE Game Music) 

+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

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

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

Such an underrated comment

@@troubledseed Alright I'll slap my chair

Bros sitting on the high chair💀

There was no strife till I went up and faced Moldorm. :P

I am dying this is beyond! Thank you for saying that! This makes me appreciate humanity I am losing it that was fucking amazing!

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

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 :-:

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

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 !

❤🎉😂

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!

Bless you. Best comment ❤️

in retro perspective it is such a epic moment haha

Oh no! You lost the item "tears"!

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.

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...

That part was fucking incredible

@@mookiestewart3776 Agreed

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

Does it count if you're the parent telling the kids you got tickets to see The Consouls next gig? ru-vid.com/group/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.

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.

let's hope that 1 half full heart goes to 3 full hearts. wish you the best of luck in your life :)

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.

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

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

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!

11:43 - oh god not again! 😭😭😭 amazing!

Me too bro. I’m crying

Me too.

@@RichardCraig at jeg

@@RichardCraig at jeg

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

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.'

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!

And then the opening theme, UGH. It's also very hard to not just wanna call out how beautiful every single rendition is.

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)

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 RU-vid.

@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

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 also enjoy VGM as jazz ru-vid.com/group/PLSWV0usaPRr7iWK9SSkGr1yYPJEGIC_XU (and will be at the next live gig soon!)

@Miles Doyle Ok did you post to some other video but hit a wrong link? Passion is great, but how in the world does your term paper of a jumbled post response apply to the Zelda Orchestrated Concert in video. I see these every once in a while completely out of left field. No comment strings that lead to it or a coherent reason of reply. Im down for reaching out to people but not that there is a line, but a reasonable reason of doing so. Not just blocks of verses with little support. I mean at least it looked like you started to explain the versus, maybe.

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.

You might like this playlist by The Consouls ru-vid.com/group/PLSWV0usaPRr7iWK9SSkGr1yYPJEGIC_XU

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.

You have to admit the way he just stares into space is funny, though,

My favorite part of this whole suite.

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!

Same

Mindblowing

136 of us agree

not as beautiful as you

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

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 🧡🧡🧡

Everything i hear it i think back to me playing an old n64 as a 10 year old boy and I get the passion back thatvinhad when I would deeply dive into a game and "be in the game" running for my life as my mind screams "IM GOING TO DIE IM GOING TO FUC*ING DIE" and I would turn to face that beast with every ounce of courage I could muster knowing I was supposed to be the hero that hyrule needed and that emotion has stuck with me ever since

+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.

Me too

You might enjoy The Consouls - they are all gamers and jazz musicians ru-vid.com/group/PLSWV0usaPRr7iWK9SSkGr1yYPJEGIC_XU

@@luvvudu3704 I know

And John Williams

Agreed

+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?

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 !

you must be a big fan of star war theme as well the french horn is used in profusion and very well used.

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.

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

Grubbo why everything gone to shit

This is literally how it feels. You started to get sloppy, and, you’re down to your last heart in a dungeon.

@@DefinitelyNotFort it has been 10 months and I finally got what you mean.

I thought you meant nothing can ever be like this again lol ! Cause it’s as beautiful and nostalgic as Star Wars , Indian Jones , lotr. Etc . Nothing today sticks in my head or feels the same . I’m old oh well lol

True!

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

This whole score is incredible!

I’m calling it now, designing and composing for video games is a Fine Art.

*Vietnam flashback ensues*

QUICKLY! YOU MUST MAKE HAST BEFORE NIGHT FALLS!

I don’t understand why I’m bawling

Absolutely beautiful to listen to. Agreed!

Koji Kondo was definitely inspired by star Wars. Here's a larger taste of that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5UKezkA-xY.html

No that wouldn't imo

@Miles Doyle for Christ’s sake shut up god damn it

Sounds more like a Mario Bros bowser castle to me

Sounds a little more European than Williams, and the 16th note runs sound more like Elfman than Williams.

You saw through The Veil man. That shit was the truth.

viola

Slenderlink99 She's a hotty.

@@AwokenGenius i think he/she didn't mean that but ok-

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.

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!