Evenin' all, as they say...

Here's a 20 minute suite of music from Ouran High School Host Club. Perfect if those silly little 50 second tracks get on your nerves...

I have others and am making new ones every couple of weeks.

Currently also available:
Gundam Seed (Toshihiko Sahashi, 20 mins, original score tracks, not the LSO suite.)
Kannazuki No Miko (Mina Kubota, 15 mins)
The Big O (Toshihiko Sahashi, 13 mins)
Strawberry Panic (Yoshihisa Hirano, 13 mins)
Kotetsushin Jeeg (Yoshihisa Hirano, 20 mins, highly recommended)
Stardust (movie - Ilan Eshkeri, 20 mins)
Talespin (Christopher L Stone, 20 mins)

If you like or want more, be letting me know! :D

Here's the Ouran Suite (31mb, 18:48, LAME V0) - in keeping with Hirano's very classical track titles, I've called it "Ouran High School Host Club - Symphonic Suite for Chamber Orchestra". ;)

http://sharebee.com/652478b3

(and in case sharebee is knackered...)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q3B7Y7OE
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61942153527d73/
http://www.badongo.com/file/7170143
http://rapidshare.com/files/81312950/Yoshihisa_Hirano_-_Ouran_High_School_Host_Club__Symphonic_Suite_for_ Chamber_Orchestra_.mp3.html

[Edit: Thought you might want to know what's actually IN the suite. The following tracks appear in this order:
Theme For The Cute One (for orchestra)
Alla Marcia (for orchestra)
Menuet of Innocence (for chamber orchestra)
Sinfonietta (in C Minor)
Nocturne (for orchestra)
Air (for violin and orchestra)
Intermezzo (for harpsichord and string quartet)
Tranquilezza (for string orchestra)
Scherzo (for orchestra)
Tranquilezza (for string orchestra) [different part]
Sakura Kiss (for string orchestra)
Sakura Kiss (for piano)

Enjoy :)

very nice, thanks!

thanks my friend for the post
i hope the link last few days because im download from torrent and cant download from other site. you know the torrent is heavy.

Oh, I'm gonna enjoy this suite.

The link should last for months - but if it dies I'll probably upload.
Hope more people get this and comment. :)
I'll start uploading the rest tomorrow.
Currently working on an InuYasha suite...

You have the Talespin promo on cd or mp3?

Oh, your compilation is absolutely beautiful! You did an amazing job. Thank you so much for posting a link to it.

thanks

This is great music with a classical touch, very joyful to listen to. I didnt know it before, so thanks for the idea and the work you had!

While your Ouran Suite rocks, i am dying to hear your Gundam Seed Suite. So PLEASE PLEASE can you upload it!

Are your suites for Strawberry Panic and Kotetsushin Jeeg still on offer my friend? I'd be most grateful. The mention of Hirano in another thread reminded me I need to hear more.

Forgive me if they've been posted elsewhere.

Certainly! I totally forgot about this thread... I think it's about time it started up again...

Listening back over Strawberry Panic, the suite stinks... So I'm going to rework it a little. However, Jeeg is superb -- and accordingly will be posted in about six minutes!

Hirano is my Japanese Jerry Goldsmith. If you're not very familar with his music, you really should hang around... I truly believe this gentleman is completely unique as a composer.

Stand by for Jeeg...

And here it is... ;)

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=5nnawfeoem

Thanks for the latest Suite Danny! I am not at all familiar with Hirano but I see on wikipedia that he did orchestration for FFVII Dirge of Cerberus and that interests me greatly because that score is wonderful. Are there some scores you would suggest more than others? The titles don't exactly suggest great scores but you can never tell with Anime.

Hirano is my Japanese Jerry Goldsmith.

Well, there's no higher praise than that! Excellent suite. I love the fact that there's a classical sense of shape and decorum to the music at times, yet it's still intensely 'dramatic'. I'd be shocked if Hirano wasn't a massive fan of Mozart/Haydn/Brahms - there's definitely that vibe going on - we even get a cheeky little run of Beethovenian staggered octaves (or whatever you'd call them) on the piano at one point! :)

Of course, that's just one side of it. What about the stunning, atmospheric colouration from about 14:30. Can this guy orchestrate or what! And speaking of Goldsmith, there's a not-un-Jerryish sinuous dissonant slide with whole tone piano and harp leading in to the fabulous 'coda'.


I am not at all familiar with Hirano but I see on wikipedia that he did orchestration for FFVII Dirge of Cerberus.

I was very excited to find that he's handling orchestration and arrangement on the upcoming Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles. Why couldn’t they just let him score the damn thing?

Thanks again Danny!

Well, there's no higher praise than that! Excellent suite. I love the fact that there's a classical sense of shape and decorum to the music at times, yet it's still intensely 'dramatic'. I'd be shocked if Hirano wasn't a massive fan of Mozart/Haydn/Brahms - there's definitely that vibe going on - we even get a cheeky little run of Beethovenian staggered octaves (or whatever you'd call them) on the piano at one point!

This gentleman is probably the most classically-minded composer working today; and it's a delicious irony that he's also one of the youngest, born in 1971.

His work on Ouran went even further back. It was that score that first hooked me - when I first heard it I was transfixed. Hirano fully in florid Baroque mode; but still there are those dissonant flourishes, late-romantic (and later) sense of drama, all bathed in a modern classical orchestration - and yet it all hangs together.


Of course, that's just one side of it. What about the stunning, atmospheric colouration from about 14:30. Can this guy orchestrate or what! And speaking of Goldsmith, there's a not-un-Jerryish sinuous dissonant slide with whole tone piano and harp leading in to the fabulous 'coda'.

You can certainly see why he's sought after as an orchestrator, can't you... It's breathtaking stuff.

Here's my favourite Hirano cue. It's only a minute long - it's wonderfully subtle, absolutely ravishing music. It's from Super Robot Wars, of all things - but my God, just listen... It sends shivers up my spine every single time - only a true master can write like this, that's for sure. It turns the concept of atonalism upsidedown as well - the harmonies are dissonant, the soprano voice snakes around them so seductively, and yet it feels intensely warm. And such accomplished orchestration as well... It has me in awe.

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=8ndiflzxq2

Also...

I hate to blow my own trumpet, but anybody reading this thread may also be interested in my 32 minute Anime Symphony - it's another suite, in exactly the same style as this one - but rather than concentrating on one particular show, it incorporates music from sixteen different series into one, coherent, continuous piece.

It can be found here... Thread 60195

Whoa, wait a second...
I just realized Hirano did the Death Note soundtracks...
I couldn't stand listening to them before, I'll have to give them another listen!
Ah he worked with another composer which explains different style.

Also do you have the Beyblade soundtrack he did? I can't find it anywhere!

Yeah... he shared the scoring duties with some absolute cocksucker. Fortunately the Hirano score and the Taniuci score are complete separate in terms of style. You'll have to skip half of the OSTs for Death Note, but it's well worth it for the Hirano. ;)

Unfortunately I don't have Beyblade - been looking for ages as well...

Tango, amazing work! Will you post all of your suites somewhere to download? I have your marvelous Gundam Seed and 31 minute one, but I'd specifically like to check out The Big O suite! How's the Inu Yasha suite coming along?

Tango, amazing work! Will you post all of your suites somewhere to download? I have your marvelous Gundam Seed and 31 minute one, but I'd specifically like to check out The Big O suite! How's the Inu Yasha suite coming along?

May I second this and enquire in particular about Talespin? I don't remember the score for this at all (it is the Disney series right?).

Big O coming up later.

In the mean time, here's Talespin.

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1Y7GLEUZ/Christopher L Stone - Talespin _Suite_.mp3

Yes, it's the Disney show - but don't let that put you off - what we have here is a fully symphonic showpiece, in the greatest of orchestral traditions... not to mention a far larger ensemble than Talespin deserved or any sane person would expect to find in a cartoon. Positively Williamsesque in places - a surprisingly solid listen.

Enjoy :)

Thank you so much, Tango! I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of your work! Thanks for the upload!

Yes, it's the Disney show - but don't let that put you off - what we have here is a fully symphonic showpiece, in the greatest of orchestral traditions... not to mention a far larger ensemble than Talespin deserved or any sane person would expect to find in a cartoon. Positively Williamsesque in places - a surprisingly solid listen.
Well, I was never one to be put off by Disney ;)

Didn't like this series at all though, or indeed any of the brash saturday morning efforts, but DAMN! I'm gobsmacked! How on earth?? There's even a touch of Goldsmith in the taut string chromaticisms. Many thanks.

Hey Tango, sorry to bother you again, but I really enjoyed your other suites and I was wondering if you were going to put up the Big O Suite sometime. Thank you!

Links to Kotetsushin Jeeg and Talespin have expired.
Maybe you could reupload them if you ever finish those other suites, which too I'm very interested in. Anime symphony no 1 was great, keep up the good work, we appreciate it.

Talespin in five minutes, Jeeg ten minutes after that. :)

SHould have some new ones shortly as well...

Talespin: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/01DAYU9I/Christopher_L_Stone_-_Talespin__Suite_.mp3_links

Kotetsushin Jeeg: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/10ZRITDS/Yoshihisa_Hirano_-_Kotetsushin_Jeeg__Suite_.mp3_links

And here's something else I cooked up recently, in answer to a challenge:

"Get me into Giant Robo in ten minutes."

This is rather more difficult than you would at first suspect! There's so much excellent music to wade through (around six hours with the orchestra) picking out the "best bits" seems a little like chosing your favourite child.

So, I concocted a nice little suite (11 minutes long in the end!) from five cues plucked from two episodes and from the symphonic suite album. I think it hangs together nicely and compresses the sensibilities, style, and (most) major themes of Robo down into a highly nutricious, bite-sized chunk.

Whether you're a committed fan of Amano's Giant Robo scores already, or you've never heard of it and find yourself curious about one of the finest symphonic anime scores ever composed... it's well worth a listen.

Giant Robo In Eleven Minutes: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/CJYZZ9WM/Masamichi_Amano_-_Giant_Robo__symphonic_poem__0.mp3_links

Thank you very much for these.

Hi, would you mind doing a Full Metal Panic one?
I love your work and all the music sounds fantastic!

I still come back to check on this thread every once in again. Listening to anime suite No. 1 right now and absolutely loving it. Could you upload your Big O suite?