RE: The Quintet Quintet - Diversion | Arrange Album Review: ActRaiser Symphonic Suite

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The Quintet Quintet - Diversion | Arrange Album Review: ActRaiser Symphonic Suite

in music •  7 years ago 

There isn't much to say about this orchestral arrangement, I think, since the original soundtrack fits well without needing many changes.

I do like how the start of "Birth of the People" is used as an intermezzo, with different instruments each time. I think it makes the Symphonic Suite feel a bit more connected than the original, since (if I remember correctly), each intermezzo kind of foreshadows the tone of succeeding tracks (like how the third intermezzo sounds more dramatic with the trumpet, and the tracks that succeed it fit that dramatic theme, like North Wall). The people that worked on the Symphonic Suite might've felt that the diversity between tracks was jarring (like you said in your review of the original) and used that motif to make it transition to different moods more smoothly.

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You might be on to something there - I hadn't even thought of that, honestly!