Video Game Arrangements of Classical Music

[Deleted member 33533]

What are some examples of classical music being used in video games? I'm obsessed with this rendition of Franz Liszt's Liebestraum from Pandora's Tower:



The theme gets used a lot throughout the game as its the song one of the main characters , Elena, sings many times in the game. The best part about the final boss theme is that

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Elena is possessed by the final boss and as you progress through the battle, her voice gradually joins the song and becomes the dominate voice (as you can hear in the second half of this video.)

 

[Mike Rambo]

Flower, Sun, and Rain is literally this for its entire soundtrack. It's awesome!

 

[FakePlasticTree]

Catherine's soundtrack has quite a few of those.

 

[Vade]

Anything in Eternal Sonata.

 

[DNAbro]

Catherine is the main one that comes to mind

 

[WestEgg]

Kind of

 

[FakePlasticTree]

Jill also plays the Moonlight Sonata in the Resi Remake.

 

[FormatCompatible]

Jill also plays the Moonlight Sonata in the Resi Remake.

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Speaking of Moonlight Sonata

 

[Bonefish]

Clair de Lune in Evil Within

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Ku28S-fpI

 

[Layla]

Parodius games have very video gamey versions of classical music as their soundtrack, lovely stuff

 

[Apollyon Woman]

Here you go chief:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLatRCmX9nVlzOVQoHu8cUqvpd1dw6ON

 

[Deleted member 33533]

Catherine's soundtrack has quite a few of those.

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Catherine is the main one that comes to mind

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Oh yeah, I haven't played that game but I do know of its Baba Yaga remix and I love it.

 

[TrishaCat]

Did somebody call for Asura's Wrath?

 

[Minky]

Does this count? Asura's Wrath, Symphony no.9 in E minor by Dvorak


Edit: DAMN IT, beaten

 

[Deleted member 33533]

Did somebody call for Asura's Wrath?

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Does this count? Asura's Wrath, Symphony no.9 in E minor by Dvorak


Edit: DAMN IT, beaten

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Moments apart from each other lol

 

[Just Some Rando]

Gyruss - "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by J S Bach - pumped hundreds of dollars into this arcade classic, back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNc7VdD-ink

 

[TrishaCat]

Moments apart from each other lol

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Its a good game that deserves a rerelease.

Does this count? Asura's Wrath, Symphony no.9 in E minor by Dvorak

Edit: DAMN IT, beaten

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[Gio]

Flower, Sun, and Rain is literally this for its entire soundtrack. It's awesome!

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Literally the first thought that came to my head when I saw the title

 

[Rommaz]

All the music when climbing the towers in Catherine is remixed classical music. They're pretty dope.

 

[JangleLuke]

In Fatal Fury 2 the final boss stage has a symphonic orchestra in the background performing Dies Irae.

 

[Dyle]

The whole soundtrack of The End is Nigh is made of arranged classical themes and it's pretty great

 

[Nali]

Mario & Sonic series is full of the stuff for its various skating and gymnastic routines.

 

[FakePlasticTree]

I just remembered that she also plays it in the Resi 5 DLC Lost in Nightmares

 

[Damn Silly]

Apparently fights in space must use Dvorak because Killer Is Dead also uses it, like the aforementioned Asura's Wrath.

 

[Kor of Memory]

I don't have the time to look them up, but I remember the Mario DDR game on the gamecube had a bunch of classical music in the game.

 

[Piccoro]

Fatal Fury 2/Special/The King of Fighters 96
Tetris NES/Tetris Worlds
Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance (Fantasia World)

All of these games have classical music.

 

[Merton]

Here you go chief:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLatRCmX9nVlzOVQoHu8cUqvpd1dw6ON

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Yea beat me to it, it's the whole soundtrack :)

 

[Bony Manifesto]

We could have a thread just based on the best video game version of Dvorak's New World Symphony! Though I'm not sure what could beat this ska version from Boom Boom Rocket.

 

[FormatCompatible]

In Fatal Fury 2 the final boss stage has a symphonic orchestra in the background performing Dies Irae.

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When I listen to Dies Irae I can't help but hear in my head ''I'll chisel your gravestone, sleep well!''. Send help.

 

[IAMtheFMan]

The entirety of Loom.

 

[mclem]

Some vintage ones which sprang to mind immediately. Hope you're ready for the Speccy beeper!



Okay, how about a rather better Blue Danube?



Manic Miner also had the Night On Bald Mountain



And the sequel Jet Set Willy had a much, much better attempt at the Moonlight Sonata

 

[Deleted member 33533]

Pandora's Tower also uses Verdi's Dies Irae:

 

[andymcc]

 

[mclem]

Wait, there's more from Matt Smith. In-game in Jet Set Willy there's a rendition of If I Was A Rich Man:



Wanted: Monty Mole plays a blast of Abide With Me when you lose a life:



I'm sure there's more, but I've got a mental block right now.

 

[Deleted member 33533]

Remember in Kingdom Hearts, when you're in the final world and jump down a hole and suddenly this dude is just there like "Hey."

 

[DealWithIt]

Not a fan of the interpretation in the OP, sorry, but those midi versions of human voices are super bad.

Here is Debussy: passepied from Suite Bergamesque, as used in Castlevania.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Basically everything in Little King's Story. Amazing stuff.

Nutcracker Suite:



William Tell Overture:

 

[Deleted member 33533]

Not a fan of the interpretation in the OP, sorry, but those midi versions of human voices are super bad.

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Yeah, they aren't great but I think it's far better once the main voice kicks in. This one has it from the the beginning.



Also this version:

 

[Ordinary Rock]

In FF IV, one of the dancing girls danced to Khachaturian's Sabre Dance.

The Velvet Room in Persona 2 used a few classical tunes.

 

[Choppasmith]

In Fatal Fury 2 the final boss stage has a symphonic orchestra in the background performing Dies Irae.

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This is definitely the most well known, but not the only SNK example

Adel's theme in 2003 starts with Chopin's Revolutionary Etude



And people seem to forget Krauser had a second theme, Lacrimosa:

 

[Dr Zhivago]

Chopin's Prelude in E Minor from Fez:

 

[moonie]

Danse macabre from Alone in the Dark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_macabre_(Saint-Saëns)

 

[Dreamboum]

the slickest bolero arrangement i've ever heard comes from a video game

 

[MegaSackman]

The first one that comes to mind:

 

[dodo]

maybe not quite what you're looking for, but the Drankengard soundtrack is built almost entirely out of classical music samples and is one of my favorite OSTs of all time. It's wild recognizing bits and pieces of other pieces in the chaos:

 

[RagnarokX]

That time Mitsuda did an arrangement of Greensleeves:




The original intended Title Screen music for The Legend of Zelda:

 

[jariw]

Some recent games:
* Goose Game (uses music by Satie and others)
* Sayonara Wild Hearts (Starts with a slight remix of "Claire de Lune")

 

[Chronokeys]

Spent many many hours with this one

https://youtu.be/DtKCNJmARF0

 

[jman2050]

The Ultima series' use of Rule, Britannia! comes to mind.

 

[Echo]

Apparently fights in space must use Dvorak because Killer Is Dead also uses it, like the aforementioned Asura's Wrath.

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Came for this. Glad I'm not the only one to remember KiD.