The American-Irish conductor Robert Tuohy has been Music Director of l’Opéra de Limoges since 2013, where he has conducted productions of Bluebeard’s Castle, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Der Freischütz, Eugene Onegin, Macbeth, Madama Butterfly, Les pêcheurs de perles, and Pelléas et Mélisande. Recent engagements include performances at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Candide), the Bolshoi Theatre, l’Auditorium de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), l’Orchestra della Fondazione dell’Arena di Verona, l’Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre Pasdeloup, l’Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, and l’Opéra de Reims, as well as a highly-acclaimed début conducting Lakmé at Opéra de Marseille in 2017. Future plans include productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Cendrillon, Eugene Onegin, Lakmé, and Les pêcheurs de perles, new collaborations with l’Opéra de Marseille, l’Opéra de Reims, the Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, as well as his débuts at l’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and l’Opéra de Toulon. Read more at: https://www.robert-tuohy.com/bio
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FF7 remake does SUCH a good job with litmotifs and dynamic progression. I highly recommend any of those tracks. 'One winged angel rebirth' is such a motif tease for those who heard the original.
There have been so many times where i was down to no health potions and the monster wasnt even limping yet and then proof of a hero came on and i won that fight. I dont know what it is about proof of a hero but i legit play better when it is playing.
Loving this series! Please do ‘To Zanarkand’ soon
You should tell robert Sekiro is by far the hardest From soft game- bloodborne, elden ring etc are much easier and more forgiving. If he got halfway through Sekiro he can beat their other games.
I'm not perfectly sure on Xenogears but I remember that song playing in a church actually. Probably not the exact same song, it might have been bit crushed but I'm pretty sure it was in the game. But it's been a long time since I played that game. The context, I think was. . .
major spoilers for Xenogears I guess
The main character in Xenogears was Fei Fong Wong, a guy that is tied to this lady Ellie. Every lifetime they find each other and fall in love although they don't remember anything about their past lives. One life Fei was a painter and the magnum opus of that life was this huge painting of that version of Ellie. Current Fei finds this painting hanging in a church with the PS1 god rays shining down on it noticing it resembles a woman he knows.
major spoilers for Xenogears over
You where reverse right on Armored Core For Answer. The surface was poisoned but it was more recent and rich people escaped to giant floating cities called Cradles. The mercenaries, soldiers, and poor folk get to stay on the irradiated surface of the planet. To me, that's why the song is so melancholy, someone is always going to get shunned while the rest get to live in paradise.
Amazing interview, and songs as usual! Its being super cool to learn more from the professionals, while also getting to know more new music with them. Keep bringing them to our VGM side! 😛
The song from xenogears in in the game, but not actual vocals/lyrics. It sounds in a cathedral where some nuns are singing, and then plays again in other cutscenes. Here's a gameplay video when they visit the cathedral. https://youtu.be/bys5E87o3Qc?t=84
When the tasty Ace Combat jams come out and Marco has to fight himself to not hum along.
unfortunately somehow the 2 destiny songs are flipped, the second one is the main theme and the first is battle ready. their commentary is correct for what should be playing but the accompanying music isn't the right piece
Oh my gosh! Gravity Rush is first up!
If someone hears me, please try Shadow of the Colossus – A Despair-filled Farewell
Aw yeah, another one of these!
Super happy to see Snake Eater here.
Feed on some tree frogs, bros.
"They require a lot of time" for the Xenoblade series feels like it's putting it mildly.
On programming concerts to include both traditional classical and things that have an appeal to people who aren't currently into classical, an interesting example was one of the proms the BBC did probably about 10 years back now. At the time they had a hugely successful educational children's sketch comedy show, Horrible Histories, which had a comedy song in each episode, and they put on a prom for that show. Meaning you got orchestral arrangements of parody songs to various pop music, but also they alternated those with entry level – The target audience was children, afterall – extracts from classical compositions, I think some of them were on theme and others were period appropriate.
The ingame version of "We the Wounded …" was a midi version with no actual vocals or lyrics. I never liked it much, I always skipped it on the soundtrack. 😅 But this version is actually quite nice!
Ahem. Between Xenogears and Xenoblade Chronicles, there also was Xenosaga. 8D
Just discovered your channel, but I absolutely love the whole concept of letting classical musicians hear what in my opinion is an underappreciated musical genre.
As for "we wounded…" from Xenogears If I may, I'd suggest listening to "Xenogears Creid" from the Album it give the game to. It is a variation featuring a solo voice and an arrangement with a completely different vibe. While the choir version sounds impressive and sublime, I find Creid's solo has a purity of intention in the lyrical voice and it feels homey, yet sacred and moving, transforming what already is a prayer, into something more. ❤ for your videos.
You should play Difference for Darkness for someone
me still waiting for Macro to react to all of Arknights texas events ost
All webcam mics are terrible!
There is some feedback going on here from Roberts webcam mic.
Please tell your editor to mute his mic while listening to tracks, if your guest is saying something during the song your editor can unmute/crossfade that part in.
It would be preferable to have your guests use a headset.
Its just music used in video game
Jesus fucking christ your volume was goddamn ridiculously loud. First second of the video scared the shit out of me. I turned my volume down afterward but next time don't have your vids volume so high.
If you haven't heard it before, you should react to some Persona music, especially Persona 5. Songs like Rivers in the Desert, Life Will Change, Last Surprise and Throw Away Your Mask are truly incredible and so different from anything else here that it'd definitely be worth including a song or two, especially Rivers in the Desert.
20:00 knowing the Xenogears saga… .you're probably beating up God to that song
Video game music is the best tbh, I will always use the Detroit become human and the world of warcraft soundtracks for inspiration as I write or study
I love that you are almost showing all of these amazing pieces of music to people that may never hear them since their "video game" music and may never give them a chance.
From league of legends; Jhin and Kindred are many levels above all other log in screen music Riot has ever created. I love that your exposing other professional musicians to the gaming music. So much goes into great games and so often many of the people in the genre never get even close to the respect they deserve. Edit: for an example in a different field. Stan Lee would tell people he was a writer and avoid telling them he wrote for comic books for a very long time of his extremely long career. (I'm not claiming he was a brilliant write either, he always knew acclaimed writers would look down upon him)
Edit again: I had to give this video a "like". =)
Fun to watch! One Winged Angel was always fully orchestrated even in the original release of FF7 on Playstation, it was an audiotrack on the gamedisc in opposite to the midi tracks used in the rest of the game. That is one of the reasons why it had such an effect, that moment significantly raised the sound quality to what seemed impossible based on the technology the rest of the audio was using.
I honestly wish Xenogears was represented with Stars in the night sky, and Soaring. As those 2 pieces of music tell an entire story just off of how the the same Melody head nearly identical piece of music is changed and how it is handled to convey so many different emotions
As a french-Canadian, my heart fluttered when you spoke in french. My respect for knowing this language shot up 100%!
Maybe you should have used the studio version of One Winged Angel. I think the live version does not convey the power of the piece properly.
I find it baffling when music people have such crappy audio. Your levels are all over the place, your vocal fry is annoying and every S you pronounce kills me a bit.
and the other guy, jesus, have some respect for the audience.
No Dark Souls song, my day is ruined.
After not really having played games since he was young, to jump into Elden Ring, and beat Malenia, that's very impressive.
It was interesting to hear his perspective. If you could have him as a guest again some time and listen to some more tracks, that would be cool.
I get so happy when I watch people listen to snake eater for the first time lol. God damn does that song pop. I love video games
As fan of game OST I want to tank you Marco for making these artistic pieces popular also trough world of musicians. Maybe in future these will get the attention they deserve. Your effort and passion is being noticed.
Please do more of these, im curious if any conductors will say "i want to play this myself"
Glad to see video game music getting the love it deserves.
Please try some day the music of the game "Dear Esther".
I suppose I should mention that for Tenebre Rosso Sangue there is actually a track before it that's called UltraChurch. I suppose it's not something heard in-game and isn't a necessary listen, but if you want the whole experience for TRS then I'd definitely recommend giving that a listen to as well.
There's a low born scummy hope of mine that you play "The great Mighty Poo" from Conker's Bad Fur Day. It's so crass that you might need to bleep it.
BTW the link on this channel (in About channel) to the "Main channel" leads to this channel again recursievly.
I would add that "In the Balance" is not only a celebration of Nald'Thal itself but of the whole desert/mercantile Ul'dan culture that revolves around it