SYMPHONIC FANTASIES
(featuring music of Kingdom Hearts, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy)



Download (Audio - LQ)

Note: This is a Youtube rip in MP3 @256kbps, the recording was made in its highest quality.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AQ75QPFQ

Download (Audio - HQ)

-- Currently fixing it --

Download (Video)

For now, a torrent only, I will upload the concert to Megaupload when I'll have the time :) I'm seeding it with 20/20 :) So grab it :) Thanks to Rengoku for recording it.

Part 1: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2946716
Part 2, 3: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2946909

Info

Symphonic Fantasies is a concert tribute to video game music from Square Enix. Two concerts will be performed in Germany. The first one will be presented in Oberhausen on September 11. The second one in Cologne on September 12, 2009 (Sold out!). Both will feature the WDR Radio Orchestra, WDR Radio Choir, and several soloists, conducted by Arnie Roth.

Tracklist

1. Fanfare overture by Jonne Valtonen

2. Fantasy I: Kingdom Hearts by Yoko Shimomura
* Dearly Beloved
* The Other Promise
* A Fight to the Death
* Hand in Hand
+ more

3. Fantasy II: Secret of Mana by Hiroki Kikuta
* Fear of the Heavens
* Into the Thick of it
* The Oracle
* Prophecy
+ more

4. Fantasy III: Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross by Yasunori Mitsuda
* Chrono Trigger
* Scars of Time
* Battle with Magus
* Prisoners of Fate
+ more

5. Fantasy IV: Final Fantasy by Nobuo Uematsu
* Prelude
* Bombing Mission
* Battle at the Big Bridge
* Phantom Forest
+ more

6. Encore by Yoko Shimomura, Hiroki Kikuta, Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu
* Destati
* One Winged Angel
+ more

Total time:
83'11''

Thank you

Thank yous go to:
- Prime Blue (for posting concert info in the first place)
- Rengoku (for posting the concert stream)
- KajunW (for putting the concert on Youtube)
- And last but not least, the people who have done it all, the composers



People, enjoy another one and cheers to the FFShrine community ;)

And be thankful, I stayed up for this one until 2 PM :)

AWESOME. I'll wait for the CD rip version. Can't wait!

Dude this is awesome thank you!

That's soooo epic!

Wish I was there to see it live :(

Thanks a lot mate!

I've posted two torrent links in my first post for the video recording of the concert, enjoy :)

AWESOME. I'll wait for the CD rip version. Can't wait!

I dont know if there's going to be a CD version of it but lets hope so!...or better yet, a dvd!

I've posted two torrent links in my first post for the video recording of the concert, enjoy :)

The arrangements were very clever and good although i dont prefer the suite mixing of blending tracks together (like bombing mission and chocobo) that was a bit of a fail to me

EDIT:
Sorry for the double post :(

Thank you for this. Been waiting to hear this. Looking forward to next week's release, "Advent Children Complete" soundtrack.

2 words ... : THANK YOU !

Thanks a lot man. I couldn't even get the video to work for me, so this will be my first time seeing it.

Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks a lot, this seems to be very interesting! I am definitely going to give it a try.

Is it just me or is Part 2 corrupted near the end?
It glitches and the sound is gone for a couple of secs (which is a shame cause its one of the best parts)

Any chance of someone uploading the videos to a non-torrent format?
Not a lot of seeds.

Awesome rips, thanks very much! :)

Part 2 is a bit corrupted because the recording stopped, that's why part 2 of the concert is actually split in two parts :)

I dont know if there's going to be a CD version of it but lets hope so!...or better yet, a dvd!
Hopefully there will be considering the guy who arranged most of the music also arranged Symphonic Shades. Would be a total shame for such an awesome concert to go without a CD release.

Any chance of someone uploading the videos to a non-torrent format?
Not a lot of seeds.


Lol you joke, there are many seeders, I have get all quickly!

The arrangements were very clever and good although i dont prefer the suite mixing of blending tracks together (like bombing mission and chocobo) that was a bit of a fail to me

EDIT:
Sorry for the double post :(

it's not blending as much as it is a musical transition.

Lol you joke, there are many seeders, I have get all quickly!

I got them now lol. Sorry haha...

Any chance of someone uploading the videos to a non-torrent format?
Not a lot of seeds.

Really? Enough seeders (including me)
I pulled this one with my max speed (800kb/s)

EDIT: Ok, good...never mind :D


Part 2 is a bit corrupted because the recording stopped, that's why part 2 of the concert is actually split in two parts :)
A bit of a shame, but we should be thankful no matter what...and maybe theres someone else who has it recorded and can provide us a non corrupted part 2 :)


Hopefully there will be considering the guy who arranged most of the music also arranged Symphonic Shades. Would be a total shame for such an awesome concert to go without a CD release.
Yea, the record quality was surprisingly good which is rare for a non commercial recording :P

Thanks for this :)

Fantastic.

Thank you so much for this! ^^

i was there at saturday,
it was so brilliant

if they play another concert next year, the tickets should be already prepared for me ;)

Not bad quality to be honest. Bit to quiet but overall ok. Arranges are nice (especially mana and kh). I like big suites so construction of the concert is great for me. But sometimes music is too... shy? Action parts are just not powerfull enough (clash on a big bridge for example). At least it's my opinion. After one listen. And that darbouka (or whatever it's called). It was nice years ago, but puting it, just to put it, doesn't make sense. It gives nothing to arranges, dosn't make music richer, just annoys. But overall quite good concert. And at last FF sounds a bit different, choir gave it new freshness;). Thanks:).

Best Compilation Ever!?!?

I think YES!! :)

thnx for sharing, 2bad i couldnt be there in person :(

And that darbouka (or whatever it's called). It was nice years ago, but puting it, just to put it, doesn't make sense.


I totally agree...the solo part at the end (encore: OWA) was incredible, but i rather heard OWA on its own.

Sometimes it was right to be there (like Scars of Time) but most of the time, it was overdone

Thanks! Can't wait to hear it!

The concert was simply amazing! I'm sure there'll be a CD release this year.

SLIGHTLY BETTER QUALITY EDITION

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=bnrj8bcj3d

Hi folks,

The Youtube rip is incredibly good, but it's suffering generational loss. Transmission -> Recording -> Transcoding -> Upload to Youtube -> Transcoded again -> Downloaded from Youtube -> Transcoded to final MP3.

I have digitally extracted the audio from the torrent of the video, normalised, split into tracks, and exported as LAME 3.98.2 -V0. I've also filtered out some noise in the upper frequency range. There was no audio above 15.5khz so I lowpassed it during encoding - this enables LAME to devote 100% of the bitrate to the audible sprectrum instead of wasting it on encoding silence.

Also, the previous version was at 48khz - since there is no audio above 15.5khz, this is pointless; once again LAME is wasting bitrate encoding frequencies which just aren't there - and it's a bugger to burn to CD if you wish.

There is still generational loss, but this audio has been through considerably fewer re-encodes than the Youtube rip - these tracks are sounding quite a bit better. Also, there is the concert performance of the Fanfare here, and not the earlier studio recording as was included (and in poor quality) with the previous MP3 upload.

Finally, as Youtube's limit is 10 minutes, the Youtube rip suffers from gaps and repeated sections where two sections have been spliced together. This edition has every piece of music in full, uninterrupted.

Original poster - feel free to do whatever you like with this rip. If you like it, you could add it to the first post... Or even just keep the link as a mirror if you wish.

:)

D

Thanks Dannyfrench! I will check out that version. Sounds like it should be worthwhile.

@dannyfrench

Thank you from me too :)

I was planning to do a concert rip, but didn't have the time lately, so you've done it for me :) Thanks :)

I'll include the link in the first post :)

Hehe, no problem - I only did it as work avoidance tactics... ;)

Yeah, the concert was fantastic, the acustic in the Philharmonie in Cologne is amazing, not to explain in words. No audio file can replace the experience of the live music there...

Thanks Danny for mostly better rip (it has much better volume). Mostly 'cause CT/CC suite is slightly corrupted near the end (last minute). Or is it just me? So if U could check this, I would appreciate:).


I totally agree...the solo part at the end (encore: OWA) was incredible, but i rather heard OWA on its own.

Actually solo is the most annoying part for me (and I'm glad that on Symphonic Shades solo was separate track, so I just can skip it there;)). But indeed, only CT/CC should have darbouka. It just fits there. And I also discovered that I never liked those solos, nor in Battlefield from Play!, nor on Symphonic Shades etc. But I admit I was quite impressed by skills of the player. But not instrument itself.

Thanks for posting this!

BUGGER!

You're completely right. The torrent of the video is knackered there. What a pain in the arse. Sorry about that, folks.

** Please don't spread my rip yet! **

I am going to go through every track and try to repair any dodgy bits. I can patch the faulty Chrono areas from the YouTube rip. It's only a couple of seconds.

Will do this tonight. At work right now.

SLIGHTLY BETTER QUALITY EDITION

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=bnrj8bcj3d


I have digitally extracted the audio from the torrent of the video, normalised, split into tracks, and exported as LAME 3.98.2 -V0.


Forgive me for asking but why would you wanna normalize orchestral peformance? It kinda screws up the 'emotion' in the music since it makes the low volume higher, and the high volume lower.

I think you should use a gain boost or something to increase volume



Actually solo is the most annoying part for me (and I'm glad that on Symphonic Shades solo was separate track, so I just can skip it there;)). But indeed, only CT/CC should have darbouka. It just fits there. And I also discovered that I never liked those solos, nor in Battlefield from Play!, nor on Symphonic Shades etc. But I admit I was quite impressed by skills of the player. But not instrument itself.

Thats exactly what i meant! :D
Cause OWA is impressive on its own...it doesnt need a 'impressive skilled' darbouka player. It was a really annoying part for me to because i was expecting the whole OWA :(

You're misunderstanding normalise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_normalization

I have NOT dynamically compressed! I have merely increased the overall volume so that the proper dynamic range is utilised. In other words, I've just applied uniform gain.

Please, please, whatever you do, don't think that I'm the sort of person who would butcher a recording with ear-shattering dynamics compression! (Search back through my previous posts for a number of lengthy, angry diatribes against this very practice.) ;)

:D

Am I the only one who has no appreciation for Kingdom Hearts and Secret of Mana music in concerts such as this? Part of it must be that I never significantly listened to the soundtracks outside of the game so I never got attached to any of the melodies. Thus none of KH or SoM tracks were very interesting to me. Plus I never really thought Kingdom Hearts had many good melodies to begin with.

On the other hand, the CC/CT track is wonderful and ALMOST perfect but i didn't notice any of Radical Dreamers, my favorite track of all CC/CT music. Thankfully, all the other MAJOR tracks are included so I won't complain too much.

The Final Fantasy track is also well done and of course there is no way to capture the "best" tracks from ALL the games in a 15 minute suite.

Am I the only one who has no appreciation for Kingdom Hearts and Secret of Mana music in concerts such as this? Part of it must be that I never significantly listened to the soundtracks outside of the game so I never got attached to any of the melodies. Thus none of KH or SoM tracks were very interesting to me. Plus I never really thought Kingdom Hearts had many good melodies to begin with.

Actually KH has a lot of great themes. But they are more subtle than for example FF. It's different music. Different kind of hmmm... sensibility. Personally I think that Shimomura is much better composer than Uematsu and I just love her KH and Legends of Mana music. But to be honest I hate KH as a game (unplayable for me). As for Kikuta's music I never listened to his scores, but I played those great games. So mostly I don't care for the music, but this suite is fantastic! I was really impressed by this. And I was even more surprised, 'cause I wasn't expecting too much. Maybe not catchy, but just great listen:).

And now I can say, that it's one of the best game concerts ever. All suites are great, all are fresh (at last new material! good material!), and performed very good (at least for my ear).


Thats exactly what i meant!
Cause OWA is impressive on its own...it doesnt need a 'impressive skilled' darbouka player. It was a really annoying part for me to because i was expecting the whole OWA

So I just misunterstood you;).

Valtonen's orchestrations are magnificent, aren't they... I get a little fed up of that damn drum thing as well, but everything else... it's ravishing. At the ten minute point in Secret Of Mana, choir and brass hold a single note all playing unison, and then the most subtle key change, the choir splits into two parts with one half singing a semitone higher whilst the other half maintain the previous note - leading into a moment of pure Goldenthalian cascading strings and woodwind - horns and bass strings play the main melody over this, the choir re-enters for a gleaming climax... Love it, love it, love it. These may be some of the most extravagant arrangements of all time.

It was a great concert!!!! Thx a lot!!!

Thanks SO much. I wish I could've been there, heck, I would've been there if I knew about it earlier, cause I live not that far away from Cologne.

I almost cried, shivering in nostalgia, when I heard their rendition of Rose and Ghost from Secret of Mana.

You're misunderstanding normalise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_normalization

I have NOT dynamically compressed! I have merely increased the overall volume so that the proper dynamic range is utilised. In other words, I've just applied uniform gain.

Please, please, whatever you do, don't think that I'm the sort of person who would butcher a recording with ear-shattering dynamics compression! (Search back through my previous posts for a number of lengthy, angry diatribes against this very practice.) ;)

:D

Haha :D my bad, sorry!
Im studying tooooo much atm that im starting to get confused on the terminology part :)


Am I the only one who has no appreciation for Kingdom Hearts and Secret of Mana music in concerts such as this?

I really didnt care too much for the Secret of Mana Suite although the recognizable parts were satisfying :D

On the other hand...KH Suite was phenomenal...Maybe you should check out Drammatica, it really is an incredible album on its own

I really didnt care too much for the Secret of Mana Suite although the recognizable parts were satisfying :D

On the other hand...KH Suite was phenomenal...Maybe you should check out Drammatica, it really is an incredible album on its own
Oh I have :) It's a nice album but I can't get into the KH songs so much. I'll have to give the other songs multiple listens though.

You're misunderstanding normalise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_normalization

I have NOT dynamically compressed! I have merely increased the overall volume so that the proper dynamic range is utilised. In other words, I've just applied uniform gain.

Please, please, whatever you do, don't think that I'm the sort of person who would butcher a recording with ear-shattering dynamics compression! (Search back through my previous posts for a number of lengthy, angry diatribes against this very practice.) ;)

:D
Yeah what he was referring to though was Velocity of the performance going up and down like ochestral traditionally does. Normalizing it was a good idea just bringing it up a bit.

Compressing it would've been more an issue lol but as long as it doesn't cause unecessary clipping. I don't care. somtimes Orchestral varies velocity too much for my tastes.

These are really entertaining arrangements, but just a little over-fussy and over-orchestrated for me. Still, the concert must rank as one of the finest of its kind.


Yeah what he was referring to though was Velocity of the performance going up and down like ochestral traditionally does. Normalizing it was a good idea just bringing it up a bit.

Compressing it would've been more an issue lol but as long as it doesn't cause unecessary clipping. I don't care. somtimes Orchestral varies velocity too much for my tastes.

I think you're referring to 'dynamics'. Velocity means speed in a given direction doesn't it? The speed at which the music's played is called the 'tempo', but no one was going to fiddle around with that :)

I believe dannyfrench just applied gain to a sensible level. There's no compression of dynamics going on.

These are really entertaining arrangements, but just a little over-fussy and over-orchestrated for me. Still, the concert must rank as one of the finest of its kind.



I think you're referring to 'dynamics'. Velocity means speed in a given direction doesn't it? The speed at which the music's played is called the 'tempo', but no one was going to fiddle around with that :)

I believe dannyfrench just applied gain to a sensible level. There's no compression of dynamics going on.

Edit: my bad lol.
been working with midi for too long.
Velocity-midi
Real-dynamics

-_-

thanks!! i wait for megaupload n_n

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I'm not really a fan of Kingdom hearts, but even that part is beautiful. I'll wait for the Chrono bits to be fixed, but so far the music I've heard is mixed with pure Awesomesauce. Also, this was sponsored by Square Enix, so I think an eventual CD release is more than likely. I just hope they don't butcher the Chrono Medley like PLAY! did.

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I'm not really a fan of Kingdom hearts, but even that part is beautiful. I'll wait for the Chrono bits to be fixed, but so far the music I've heard is mixed with pure Awesomesauce. Also, this was sponsored by Square Enix, so I think an eventual CD release is more than likely. I just hope they don't butcher the Chrono Medley like PLAY! did.

Not to mention that the recording quality of PLAY! was absolutely terrible and inconsistent.

Beautiful arrangements and awesome quality for a bootleg! :)

Any updates on the fixed CT/CC bit though?

SMaxtor from CetraConnection.de provides us the following:


So, ich hab jetzt einfach vollst�ndiger Weise auch denn gesamten Videomitschnitt auf Megauploads hochgeladen. Die Bild und Tonqualit�t d�rfte wohl etwas besser sein als das auf Youtube. Ach ja, vergesst beim Video die Untertitel nicht einzuschalten ^^

Info:
Dies ist ein Livemittschnitt aus dem Konzert Symphonic Fantasies, das kostenlos �ber das Webportal des WDR zu sehen und h�ren war. Es wurde ohne kommerziellen Gedanken den Fans zur Verf�gung gestellt, die keine Karten mehr erhalten haben. Auch dieser Mitschnitt folgt diesem kostenfreien Gedanken. Sollte der WDR sp�ter entscheiden, CD�s und/oder DVD�s zu Verkaufen, dann stoppt bitte die Weiterverbreitung.

Zum entpacken nutzt ihr am besten WinRAR und bei Problemen mit MKV Videos hilft euch CCCP.

Download Audio:
AAC+, 128kb Stereo, ca. 140 Minuten, 114 MB (gepackt, RAR)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FI3E66HA

MP3, VBR Stereo, ca. 140 Minuten, 211 MB (gepackt, RAR)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HOVS4K0P

Download Video:
MKV, Xvid 1200 kb, MP3 192, Untertitelt, ca. 140 Minuten, 1.35 GB (gepackt, RAR)

Teil 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JYZZ8PP0

Teil 2:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V9L47NL4

Die Files sind alles RAWs, also so wies gesendet wurde, nur den Ton und das Bild hab ich nachgebessert. Jeder darfs sich das also ziehen und f�r sich �ndern, also Kapitel ein�gen, an anderer Stelle pr�sentieren usw, solangs halt nicht den WDR st�rt^^

This is the full concert (Audio & Video) and the end of CT/CC is working!

And the WDR mailed me some awesome information:


Liebe Fans der Computerspiele-Musik,

in den letzten zwei Wochen haben uns erstaunlich viele Zuschriften von
Konzertbesuchern, Zuschauern und Zuh�rern erreicht,
die unser Konzert Symphonic Fantasies mit Musik aus den Computerspielen
von Square Enix live in Oberhausen und K�ln, per Radio oder
Internetstream verfolgt haben.
Das gro�e Lob und die Begeisterung so vieler Fans freuen uns sehr!

Und wir freuen uns auch, Ihnen bzw. Euch ank�ndigen zu k�nnen, dass es
vermutlich schon zum Jahresende eine CD von diesem Konzert geben wird.
Auch �ber eine DVD wird zur Zeit mit den japanischen Rechteinhabern
verhandelt, allerdings gibt es da noch keinen Termin f�r eine
Ver�ffentlichung.

Und hier noch eine freudige Ank�ndigung: Es gibt einen Termin, den Sie
sich vormerken sollten: Am 24. September 2010 gibt es eine Fortsetzung
unter dem Titel Symphonic Legends, wieder in der K�lner Philharmonie um
20 Uhr. Der Kartenverkauf hat allerdings noch nicht begonnen.

Wir w�rden uns freuen, Sie wieder im Publikum begr��en zu d�rfen und so
ein atemberaubendes Konzert zu erleben wie in diesem Jahr.
�ber die Homepage www.symphonicfantasies.com k�nnen Sie sich weiterhin
auf dem Laufenden halten.

They got lots of positive feedback and are pleased to announce that there will be a CD by the end of the year. And they are also negotiating with the Japanese about a DVD, but there's no date yet.
And they also said that there will be another concert in 2010, which will be called "Symphonic Legends"! (Personally I'm hoping for Nintendo (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and so on...))

I actually watched the performance on YouTube; it was very... wow! And to see Uematsu there! :D

Not to mention that the recording quality of PLAY! was absolutely terrible and inconsistent.

I know, right? Arnie Roth is a great man, but if he personally listened to AND approved of that PLAY! CD, I might lose all my respect for him. I don't think he did, though.

I know, right? Arnie Roth is a great man, but if he personally listened to AND approved of that PLAY! CD, I might lose all my respect for him. I don't think he did, though.

I personally dont think he was the one responsible for the CD release nor the quality of it, because he was credited for the orchestrations and rearrangements (although some rearrangements where not as good as they could be: Halo...tooo slow!). I think the audio engineers where here to blame for faulty mics, equipment or mastering itself.

It might had something to do with the delay of its release. Maybe some where not happy with the quality, and some not happy to lose customers cause of the delay.


SMaxtor from CetraConnection.de provides us the following:

This is the full concert (Audio & Video) and the end of CT/CC is working!

And the WDR mailed me some awesome information:

They got lots of positive feedback and are pleased to announce that there will be a CD by the end of the year. And they are also negotiating with the Japanese about a DVD, but there's no date yet.
And they also said that there will be another concert in 2010, which will be called "Symphonic Legends"! (Personally I'm hoping for Nintendo (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and so on...))

Great!, thanks for the info and another video/audio version of the concert!

They got lots of positive feedback and are pleased to announce that there will be a CD by the end of the year. And they are also negotiating with the Japanese about a DVD, but there's no date yet.
And they also said that there will be another concert in 2010, which will be called "Symphonic Legends"! (Personally I'm hoping for Nintendo (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and so on...))

FUCK YES! I can't wait to go there. :D

I have just spent some time cutting apart the mp3 SuperBen and "SMaxtor from CetraConnection.de" provided. I now present the Symphonic Fantasies Concert (sans German speakers and most of the applause,) with each piece as a separate track. I used mp3DirectCut, which splices an mp3 without re-encoding it, allowing me to provide this without any loss of quality whatsoever.
Here it is:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qqh50yzwwri

Please note that this is my first time using Mediafire, so please notify me about any mistakes and be patient in waiting for me to fix them.

wooowww
wonderful....................
thanks a lot ! :D

Thanks so much for the wonderful concert.

Thanks for the download, Tonedeaf. <3

My favourite concert so far, because the arrangements were fantastic, and with the exception of Kingdom Hearts, the games are all favourites of mine. (Nothing against KH, I simply haven't played the games. XD)
I hope they release a CD. I want to buy it. :)

You are welcome.

I was almost semi disappointed in the Chrono Medley, but then I gave it another listen and found that they did Magus' theme to my exacting specifications (meaning they made it super-epically-awesome.) In fact I'd say the Chrono Medley doesn't reach it's potential until AFTER the ending theme "To Far Away Times" is played. It's somewhat ironic that it doesn't get truly awesome until after you think it's over.

In other news, I am so buying this on CD.

You are welcome.

I was almost semi disappointed in the Chrono Medley, but then I gave it another listen and found that they did Magus' theme to my exacting specifications (meaning they made it super-epically-awesome.) In fact I'd say the Chrono Medley doesn't reach it's potential until AFTER the ending theme "To Far Away Times" is played. It's somewhat ironic that it doesn't get truly awesome until after you think it's over.

In other news, I am so buying this on CD.

I know what you mean...
Not to complain but i think this arrangement of Frog's Theme was a bit better because to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITRZK8z0ek

But the Chrono Suite overall was better @ Symphonic Fantasies

Tonedeaf: Thanks for sharing.


Valtonen's orchestrations are magnificent, aren't they [...] it's ravishing.

Definitely. I find it amusing that the guy who went to the same music classes as my sister has matured into a wonderful arranger. I'll let him know that you enjoyed his orchestrations. :)


At the ten minute point in Secret Of Mana, choir and brass hold a single note all playing unison, and then the most subtle key change, the choir splits into two parts with one half singing a semitone higher whilst the other half maintain the previous note - leading into a moment of pure Goldenthalian cascading strings and woodwind - horns and bass strings play the main melody over this, the choir re-enters for a gleaming climax... Love it, love it, love it.

When I watched the concert live, this one sent shivers down my spine. It also helped that it had one of my favourite themes from SoM playing as well. Another wonderful moment goes from 16:00 all the way to the end of SoM part when it slowly builds up to one of the main themes backed by the choir while parts of the orchestra play their own thing.

Also, I'll have to say that I was somewhat troubled how Jonne could handle "The Oracle" (11:30 - 13:20) which is a rather crazy piece in the OST. I was happy to hear that he managed to adapt it well without losing the music's integrity.

As much as I like Secret of Mana's music, I seriously hope that he'll tackle Seiken Densetsu 3 at some point. In my opinion it has better music than SoM and would sound awesome with a big orchestra and choir. ;)

I saw the concert live in Oberhausen, and it was really awesome... can't wait for the next one in 2010!

sweet

tHANKS A LOT for THIS!!! it's amazing yoko, nobuo yasunori HYPER FANTASTiC

thumbs up

Wow, I didn't know that there was this kind of performance in Germany!
Thanks for sharing.

so was there every a cd : / ?

I have just spent some time cutting apart the mp3 SuperBen and "SMaxtor from CetraConnection.de" provided. I now present the Symphonic Fantasies Concert (sans German speakers and most of the applause,) with each piece as a separate track.


Thank you so much I was just sitting down to do same thing. I am wanted to play this on the radio and though that german narrator is cool.. I just does not work on air.

Thanks again !

thanks for sharing, im having goosebumps just listening to it, its so beautiful!

Every time this gets bumped, I cross my fingers and pray it's an announcement on the official release... I badly want this on CD.

Holy mother of... this is awesome.

CD has been announced, further details coming soon...

^:thumbsup:

CD to be released May 21 2010.
Pre-order possible via Amazon.de (http://www.amazon.de/Symphonic-Fantasies-Wdr-Rundfunkorchester-K%C3%B6ln/dp/B003DQ0ARG/)

More information expected soon.

Sweet! :D

That's good news!

It breaks my heart to hear people talking so bad about too of my favorites games Secret of Mana and Kingdom Hearts :(

Anyway, thank you for this great share guys. I'm gonna enjoy every track of this.

Did this get pushed back? The Amazon page already posted says December 31, 2010. :(

Edit: According to this (http://www.amazon.com/Symphonic-Fantasies-Wdr-Rundfunkorchester-Koln/dp/B003DQ0ARG) it's now being released on June 8th. Well, that's definitely better than December.

Any news on this?

This was posted recently @ SEMO (Square Enix Music Online)

"SEMO can exclusively reveal that the album Symphonic Fantasies is going to be released in September 2010 by Universal Music (DECCA). This coincides with an official announcement today on WDR4 radio."
http://www.squareenixmusic.com/musicnews2.php?subaction=showfull&id=1275147824&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&

http://www.squareenixmusic.com/musicnews2.php?subaction=showfull&id=1278781552&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&.shtml

Can anyone tell me what the hell does this mean??


Note that the recording of the finale of the concert will not be included for artistic reasons and will only be released digitally at a later point.

Why the hell won't they include the final piece? It was a nice blending of different tunes and I liked it ...

Did this get pushed back? The Amazon page already posted says December 31, 2010. :(

Edit: According to this (http://www.amazon.com/Symphonic-Fantasies-Wdr-Rundfunkorchester-Koln/dp/B003DQ0ARG) it's now being released on June 8th. Well, that's definitely better than December.

Ordered Mine, release is September 17th, 2010
Symphonic Fantasies (http://www.symphonicfantasies.com)
Loved the album cover!

I love music this music!

Really many many thanks for the video recording. I enjoyed it a lot.

On it, between 01:14:01 and 01:17:16 there's a song I do not identify. I'm totally sure it's not part of FINAL FANTASY series, but don't know from which videogame it does come from. Anyone recognizes it?

Anybody has this to re-up?

MP3, VBR Stereo, ca. 140 Minuten, 211 MB (gepackt, RAR)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HOVS4K0P

It's the best audio SMaxtor provided, I would like to have a copy but it's down unfortunately.

I don't have the video recording any more, so I'm not quite sure what part you're referring to - but I'm guessing it's in the Final Fantasy suite!

Jonne Valtonen makes quite liberal use of his own Fanfare Overture throughout the suites - and frequently goes off on a flight of fancy that has very little to do with the original thematic material - possibly you are hearing those sections? The suites aren't just medleys - there's a fair bit of original linking material in there too that holds it all together.

I don't have the video recording any more, so I'm not quite sure what part you're referring to - but I'm guessing it's in the Final Fantasy suite!

Jonne Valtonen makes quite liberal use of his own Fanfare Overture throughout the suites - and frequently goes off on a flight of fancy that has very little to do with the original thematic material - possibly you are hearing those sections? The suites aren't just medleys - there's a fair bit of original linking material in there too that holds it all together.
No, it's not FINAL FANTASY at all, I've been in the FINAL FANTASY world for years and I'm totally sure it's not from FINAL FANTASY series. In fact the song I say is not from the concert itself, but from the pause while the people is moving up & downstairs and the radio comments and put music from other games like TETRIS and so on.

No, it's not FINAL FANTASY at all, I've been in the FINAL FANTASY world for years and I'm totally sure it's not from FINAL FANTASY series. In fact the song I say is not from the concert itself, but from the pause while the people is moving up & downstairs and the radio comments and put music from other games like TETRIS and so on.
That should be "Gem'X (Main Theme)" from the "Symphonic Shades" concert.

Oh, and the link to the audio file seems to work quite well.

That should be "Gem'X (Main Theme)" from the "Symphonic Shades" concert.
Exactly, ��huge thanks Superben!!


Oh, and the link to the audio file seems to work quite well.
Yes you're totally right, don't know why the other day I received a message saying it was not available anymore. Thanks for letting me know, I'm getting it right now =]

i cry... i am late again!!! gggr... i wish i can see with my own eyes.. the live version1!!!!
went to distant world, it was fantastic!! i cried.. too touched... haha
thanks though

Can anyone re-upload the video?

I have only seen bits and pieces of this and it was amazing. If anyone still has any of the videos and can re-upload, it would be very much appreciated.