Just finished another great game - Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, on NDS. It is an interquel game in which the story takes place between Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2). In short, Kingdom Hearts is a RPG that let us control the protagonist Sora and we will visit many Disney worlds. This is not a game for kids although Disney worlds and characters are involved. The story is deep and interesting. Among the worlds that we get to visit are Wonderland (Alice in the wonderland), Peter Pan's world, Beast Castle (Beauty and the Beast) etc etc etc.
The main theme of Kingdom Hearts is Dearly Beloved, a very sweet song that can be heard in the game menu as well as within the game various cutscenes. This is the piano arrangement of Dearly Beloved.
The opening of this version of Dearly Beloved reminds me alot of the Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto. If you watch Nodame Cantabile, in a episode, Chiaki performed a piano concerto, and there is a scene showing Nodame wearing the bear costume and walk into the concert hall while Chiaki was performing that piano concerto. Ya. That's the song.
The similar part of these two song can be heard in 0.10 sec - 0.45 sec of the song.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Eternal Sonata
Recently start to play a PS3 RPG called Eternal Sonata, a game related with the famous piano composer Chopin. In fact, Chopin is the very reason that makes me buy this game. Anyway, I decided not to talk about the gameplay itself, despite the fact that Eternal Sonata, as a RPG, is actually a very great game to play. The music in the game is what this post is about.
This game is basically divided into several chapters, and each chapter has the theme that is related to one of the piano piece of Chopin. What makes the game interesting is that, it tells the story behind each of the piano piece, as in when the piece was composed, under what circumstances etc etc.
So far I'm in chapter 4, and each chapter has it's own title, for example:
Chapter 1: Raindrop
Chapter 2: Revolution
Chapter 3: Fantaisie Impromptu
Chapter 4: Grande valses brillante
This game has certainly motivate me to play those songs again although I have the piano scores of those song with me for all these time. The first song that I'm currently playing is the chapter 1 song, Raindrop. It is actually the Prelude in D(flat) major, which is named Raindrop prelude. The raindrop prelude story is related back to Chopin's illness tuberculosis and a raining period.
Chapter 2 song, Revolution, is actually the famous Revolutionary Etude, Opus 10, Number 12. Well, I'm still not sure if I wanna learn this song XD.
Chapter 3 Fantaise Impromptu. I think everyone must hear this masterpiece before. You might not know the title, but I'm quite the tune is not unfamiliar to most people.
Chapter 4 Grande valses brillante, is a waltz. I remember this is the first Chopin's waltz that I started to learn last time, among his other waltz. Time to learn back this piece soon~
This is it. Fantaisie Impromptu, performed by Li Yundi.
The other day, I saw my boss play this piece, Fantaisie Impromptu in the show room. Speechless. It is so so so.................. GREAT.
oh, by the way, just 'sunbian' introduce another great piece, performed by Li Yundi. It's La Campanella, composed by Liszt.
This game is basically divided into several chapters, and each chapter has the theme that is related to one of the piano piece of Chopin. What makes the game interesting is that, it tells the story behind each of the piano piece, as in when the piece was composed, under what circumstances etc etc.
So far I'm in chapter 4, and each chapter has it's own title, for example:
Chapter 1: Raindrop
Chapter 2: Revolution
Chapter 3: Fantaisie Impromptu
Chapter 4: Grande valses brillante
This game has certainly motivate me to play those songs again although I have the piano scores of those song with me for all these time. The first song that I'm currently playing is the chapter 1 song, Raindrop. It is actually the Prelude in D(flat) major, which is named Raindrop prelude. The raindrop prelude story is related back to Chopin's illness tuberculosis and a raining period.
Chapter 2 song, Revolution, is actually the famous Revolutionary Etude, Opus 10, Number 12. Well, I'm still not sure if I wanna learn this song XD.
Chapter 3 Fantaise Impromptu. I think everyone must hear this masterpiece before. You might not know the title, but I'm quite the tune is not unfamiliar to most people.
Chapter 4 Grande valses brillante, is a waltz. I remember this is the first Chopin's waltz that I started to learn last time, among his other waltz. Time to learn back this piece soon~
This is it. Fantaisie Impromptu, performed by Li Yundi.
The other day, I saw my boss play this piece, Fantaisie Impromptu in the show room. Speechless. It is so so so.................. GREAT.
oh, by the way, just 'sunbian' introduce another great piece, performed by Li Yundi. It's La Campanella, composed by Liszt.
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