🌳🍃 Koji Kondo – Saria's Song (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra – conducted by Taizo Takemoto Micaco Honya – ocarina 🪈 • Her name already hints at it: Saria is almost the word "aria", the term for a song. Maybe that is why the melody named after her refused to stay locked inside a single game. For more than twenty years it kept coming back, title after title, whenever a story needed the sound of a forest. Today many people recognize it at once, without ever having touched a video game. It is one of those melodies that memory holds on to before reason can explain why. • Inside the game, this tune was never background music. It played in an endless loop in a wood where it was easy to get lost, and grew louder the closer you came to whoever was playing it. Players learned to find their way by the volume: following the melody meant heading back to the friend. Listen again with that in mind, and the repeating phrase stops being decoration. It becomes a call, a direction made of sound that always leads to the same person. • This recording comes from the Legend of Zelda Concert 2018, held late that year in Tokyo, with the Tokyo Philharmonic conducted by Taizo Takemoto. That edition had an unusual idea: to bring onto the stage the very instruments that appear inside the games. That is how the ocarina, once just a drawing on the screen, gained a flesh-and-blood performer in the middle of the orchestra. And a special guest sat in the audience: Koji Kondo, who imagined this music alone at a keyboard in 1998. Twenty years later, he heard it treated with the same seriousness as any symphony, by one of the oldest orchestras in Japan. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music daily on your feed. • • • #ocarina #orchestra #zelda #classicalmusic - @reels.classics