PlayStation and Classic FM team up for orchestral concert

[Steel]

[quote]Orchestral music today is more likely to be experienced online and more young people engage with it through computer games than in a concert hall. To celebrate the role that computer games play in introducing a new generation of people to orchestral music, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, PlayStation® and Classic FM have joined forces to present PlayStation in Concert.

Featuring the music from games spanning Original PlayStation, PS2™, PS3™ and PS4™, the 80-strong Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by the City of London Choir, complete with a spectacular light show. The programme includes music from The Last of Us™, The Last Guardian™, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves™ and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception™, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, LittleBigPlanet™ and Horizon Zero Dawn™, among others.

Presenting the show will be Jessica Curry, one of the leading figures in computer game music today, as well as being the BAFTA award-winning composer of the soundtrack to Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Jessica also presented High Score on Classic FM, the UK's most popular classical music station. High Score was the first series on British radio dedicated to video game music.

The concert will also feature the first use of EnCue at the Royal Albert Hall - a real-time programme note app that delivers media and content to concertgoers' smartphones as the music unfolds from the stage.[/quote]
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[supervoltage]

It better have music from Shadow of the Colossus as well. The pieces in that game are amazing.

[Loadingue]

I always enjoy game music done by a real orchestra. I'm gonna have to keep an eye on this.

[Zadrave]

I need to check it out. I always loved the Final Fantasy ones.

[ellistron]

Orchestra parappa the rapper please

[Ronin]

[QUOTE=supervoltage;53201636]It better have music from Shadow of the Colossus as well. The pieces in that game are amazing.[/QUOTE]

Demise of the Ritual would more than likely move me to tears.

[benbb]

Looks like Classic FM are realizing their usual target audience is 'disappearing' and they need to find a better way to market classical music to a younger audience.

Hope this turns out well.