The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |Epic Game Music

Andreas Dormann Music
Andreas Dormann Music
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Published 2023-12-31
Let's celebrate 2024 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and THE LEGEND OF ZELDA! Video game music is a genre in its own right. With its own laws, its own composers. In any case, it's music that's influenced by the great film soundtracks, and before that by composers such as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. Majestic, opulent, colorful! And it's music with its own fans, some of whom are willing to travel a long way to hear it, and who celebrate their musical heroes like Star Wars fans celebrate Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda or Princess Leia. Our heroine today is ZELDA! This legendarily successful series of games from Nintendo not only impresses with its stories, but also with its particularly beautiful compositions by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and Hajime Wakai. The game's music weave a rich tapestry of exploration, melody and a touch of classic "hey, listen!". It's like creating a musical opus with every swing of the sword and every note of the iconic themes.

I've arranged and orchestrated some of the most beautiful themes for the BBC Symphony Orchestra - inspired by some of the works on musescore. What you hear is the mockup I created in Logic Pro and performed with Spitfire Audio's BBCSO Pro library. I only used additional sounds in a few sections: 8DIO Epic Taiko Ensemble, EW Hollywood Orchestral Percussion, Zero-G Sahara Voices.

Do you also have the BBCSO and are you interested in my Logic File? Tell me in the comments!

And now, curtain up for the magical Breath of the Wild!

Watch, listen & have fun!

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Tuning the instruments
00:14 Breath of the Wild (Intro)
01:23 Breath of the Wild (Main Theme)
03:06 Kakariko Village
04:16 Attack on Vah Ruta
05:30 Calamity Ganon (Battle)
06:47 Mipha’s Theme
08:31 Daruk’s Theme
09:39 Taking Down Vah Naboris
10:59 Urbosa’s Theme
12:34 Kass’ Theme
13:53 Korok Forest
15:32 Rito Village
17:19 Revali’s Theme
18:45 Breath of the Wild (Battle Theme & Finale)

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CREDITS

Thanks to my youngest son for the insights into the world of gamers and his support with the visuals. BTW: Thanks to the gamer community for their great playthroughs, especially to:
Arklarr's Flan: youtube.com/@ArklarrsFlan
BeardBear: youtube.com/@BeardBear
Boss Fight Database: youtube.com/@BossFightDatabase
Chase247: youtube.com/@Chase247
Digital Dreams: youtube.com/@DigitalDreamsyt
Hodax: youtube.com/@heavyrain3
Hyrule Dude: youtube.com/@HyruleDude
JPROC: youtube.com/@jamproc
Minton's Clips Collection: youtube.com/@mintonsclipscollection0123
Rubycario: youtube.com/@Rubycario-yt
VGR:    / @henriko  
Thanks to heterophu for his work on BOTW on musescore, which he arranged for Concert Band and which I reworked for the BBCSO.

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