Zelda: Ocarina of Time Reorchestrated

[Henry B 51]

While I'm not a fan of using imaginary words in titles of projects, the musicality of this is rather impressive... The "Zelda Reorchestrated" team has just completed their Ocarina of Time album: every single piece of music from Ocarina of Time rendered with modern synthesizers and samples. For those bothered by the very dated sound hardware of the N64, this can really illuminate the strength of Koji Kondo's work. Some of the tracks are too embellished or orchestrally overdone, but for the most part the tracks are faithful to the originals and sound great. The only one that really horrifies me is "Battle," which is given the Zimmer treatment.

Fairy Flying

Hyrule Field Main Theme

Zelda's Theme

Kakariko Village Orchestral Version

End Credits

Full album page

[Quintus 6,497]

Awesome, thanks for linking. Classic game score it is. I'll boot my pc up later and check it out.

[King Mark 3,975]

Hmmm,I think this and Final Fantasy are way overrated.

and yes,I spent 2 weeks thrudging through all the available FF material

[Quintus 6,497]

I disagree with you on both accounts.

[MissPadmé 17]

Kingmark you obviously don't have a clue atall

[John Crichton 4]

Cool, thanks Henry. I think I remember hearing about this project a while ago. The old synth samples don't bother me any, but this sounds like something worth checking out.

John- who also has to strongly disagree with KM

[ChrisAfonso 237]

OoT has its highlights and introduces a number of great themes, but I always found the orchestration underwhelming... the sound of it was too small, on the whole I found it to be too sparse and thin, especially compared to "A Link to the Past", although the samples themselves sounded better. LttP had a much more grand and epic, orchestral feel to it, limited as the SNES samples were. Both the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess have a more grand orchestration and convey the epic wonder of the world better Though OoT shines on a more intimate, chamber musical scale (the "Hyrule Symphony" CD with string arrangements is gorgeous).

[Diego 21]

Hmmm,I think this and Final Fantasy are way overrated.

and yes,I spent 2 weeks thrudging through all the available FF material

Of course you do, it's not Williams, therefore it has to be overrated like that crappy Back To The Future score.

[King Mark 3,975]

Well at least spent the time listening to it to give my opinion

there's a few good themes,for what I assume are female characters (tina.tifa,aerith...I dunno I haven't played the games). But a lot of it is repetitious

Haven't changed my mind about BttF...but I did Under-rate Innerspace

[Diego 21]

But you do know that "not liking" is not equal to overrated? As for it being repetitious, it's music for a videogame, considerably longer than a film score and it also has to be functional in the game so a bit of repetition is to be expected.

[King Mark 3,975]

That's why I love the "on the fly" Playlist button on the ipod so I can re-listen to the best tracks later on without re-listening to the 4 hour scores

I already have symphonic arrangements of Ocarina of Time (I did play this great game)...wouldn't that be automatically be better than midis? It's called "Hyrule Symphony"

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,387]

Most PC game music is not very good. It's not substantial enough. It's has to stay very nonspecific and non linear because it has to be used in a game.

[King Mark 3,975]

Like I said, some individual tracks are good

[Diego 21]

That's why I love the "on the fly" Playlist button on the ipod so I can re-listen to the best tracks later on without re-listening to the 4 hour scores

I already have symphonic arrangements of Ocarina of Time (I did play this great game)...wouldn't that be automatically be better than midis? It's called "Hyrule Symphony"

If I remember correctly the "Hyrule Symphony" is mostly just an ensemble of strings, so these midis give you an idea of what the full orchestra would sound like.

[King Mark 3,975]

I'll download them I guess

[Red 75]

If I remember correctly the "Hyrule Symphony" is mostly just an ensemble of strings, so these midis give you an idea of what the full orchestra would sound like.

It's a small string ensemble, like a quartet or something. Though in one track an actual ocarina is featured as well.

Anyway, these are great. It reinforces what I already know about the Zelda music, that it's collectively as good as anything I've heard. The fact that it was written for video games instead of movies makes no difference, it's brilliant all the same.

[Diego 21]

These are good, but my favorite re-arrangemets of Zelda music are from Smash Brothers Brawl.

[Quintus 6,497]

These are a little too much like midi fan services for my personal tastes.

[John Crichton 4]

I've always had a hard time listening to Hyrule Symphony. There's something about the arrangement and performance that just grates my ears for some reason.

[Ollie 1,375]

but I did Under-rate Innerspace

See? I told you it was good.

[Swordfish392 3]

Hmmm,I think this and Final Fantasy are way overrated.

and yes,I spent 2 weeks thrudging through all the available FF material

Kondo, Uematsu & co have written such godlike stuff, not for no reason this music has a huge fanbase and there are concerts around the world. So sorry but you are talking bullshit.

Please have a listen to these ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5coKpnqqAbI

[John Crichton 4]

John Williams! I knew it!

[DaHaK 0]

John Williams! I knew it!

I really don't think it's John Williams at all. It's from Orchestral Game Concert Volume 1 by the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra (My link). One YouTube commentator said that Williams arranged it, but I can't find it mentioned anywhere in the CD Liner notes. Unless somebody here knows something that I don't? Still fabulous sounding though.

[Docteur Qui 1,581]

Haha, no, it's one of the oldest jokes from this board that Williams arranged that piece.

[Swordfish392 3]

John Williams! I knew it!

I though exactly the same, after hearing it lol. Sounds indeed John Williams like.

But as said by DaHaK Williams never did such an Arrangement in fact.

[Quintus 6,497]

I prefer Williams' Back to the Future theme.

[DaHaK 0]

Haha, no, it's one of the oldest jokes from this board that Williams arranged that piece.

That's great

I remember back in 2002 seeing it as "JOHN WILLIAMS LEGEND OF ZELDA" on Kazaa. So it's like they hyped it by throwing a popular name on it. I believe something similar happened on Kazaa/Limewire/Whatever when the score for Revenge Of The Sith was "leaked" and it was actually Shadows Of The Empire. Funny thing was my friend actually bragged to me about it when he downloaded SOTE. He was so happy to one-up me on Star Wars that he didn't know it wasn't the ROTS score.

[Ollie 1,375]

Back in the early days of file sharing, Napster, quite a few movie themes were attributed to John Williams.

[John Crichton 4]

Wait, Williams' didn't write all that stuff? Then who the hell have I been listening to?

[Diego 21]

You bunch of liars, Zelda, Back to the Future, Batman and even the Godfather, they're all Williams, I know it to be true...

[Wojo 2,458]

Back in the early days of file sharing, Napster, quite a few movie themes were attributed to John Williams.

Back in the glory days of file sharing, I attributed a rock song to myself for my friends to seek on Napster. It didn't work very well, it was almost as if we were on different servers and could not search from the same pool of files.