You may have seen me mention this on Twitter a couple of nights ago, but I wanted to write a post on it now that I've listened to it all.
Link to the episode on ClassicFM player.
It's 2 hours long, and there's a fair mix of pieces. The first three are Final Fantasy - Aerith's Theme, the intro of FF8 and To Zanarkand. All of which are the beautiful orchestral renditions. Then it moves off to Nintendo, with an orchestral melody of Super Mario Brothers main themes, then Mario Galaxy's Gusty Garden Galaxy.
They look at modern games as well - there's tracks from Remember Me, Bioshock Infinite and Thief. There is a version of all three Tetris themes done by what I think is a string quartet - I remember being utterly mesmerised by the skill of the cellist and violinist. One of the last pieces was Simon's Theme from Castlevania, plus Dracula's theme. Both were amazing to hear in orchestral form - I'd only ever heard both as chiptune.
The program itself was well done - though the first half hour of "this is coming from a game, believe it or not!" was a little bit grating. It moved past that thankfully. I was quite pleased that the presenter themselves was -not- a gamer, but had an appreciation for music in gaming. It gave me a little bit of hope that some of my favourite music can be appreciated by more people.
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