Final Symphony – Final Fantasy Ultimate Music Album To Release 2015
Nobuo Uematsu, the music wizard of the Final Fantasy saga is teaming up with some of the best of the best to create a new album for the series called Final Symphony, which is set to release early 2015.
Featuring tracks from Final Fantasy VII, VIII and X (considered the most popular among many Final Fantasy fans), the new album will be a fully orchestrated visionary for this music album. This is an exciting venture for videogame music fanatics like me and especially for fans of Final Fantasy. I cannot wait to see new and exciting things coming in this form in the future! You can read up on all the need to know details via the press release below, which includes some words of wisdom from Nobuo Uematsu himself.
Following the unprecedented, sell-out success of its FINAL FANTASY® video game concert series, Final Symphony, production company Merregnon Studios is pleased to announce that it is working with celebrated composer Nobuo Uematsu and the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra on a brand new digital album recording of the concert for release in early 2015.
In another announcement made, UK radio Station Classic FM, the biggest classical music radio station in the world, will showcase a preview of the great music from the Final Symphony album as a World Premier before its official release in 2015.
“It is always an honour to hear my work being performed live on stage, but in bringing Final Symphony to Abbey Road Studios I hope that many more people will now be able to enjoy the outstanding arrangements that Merregnon Studios has become famous for,” said Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. “To work with the London Symphony Orchestra in a studio that has played host to many of my own personal, musical heroes will be a very special experience.”
“For me, this album marks the ultimate video game music production,” commented Merregnon Studios’ Thomas Böcker, producer of Final Symphony. “It was an absolute musical privilege to work with the London Symphony Orchestra on Final Symphony last year – the orchestra’s first ever live performance of music from a video game – and to have them back in the same room as Nobuo Uematsu at Abbey Road Studios is like hitting the video game music jackpot. This album will showcase video game music at its very highest quality and I can’t wait to share it with the world.”
Final Symphony is an officially licensed series of concerts that have been performed across Europe and Japan since May 2013. Its also worth noting that the new album also marks the second collaboration between Merregnon Studios and X5 Music Group, following the recent digital launch of Symphonic Fantasies Tokyo, a concert featuring music from Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Kingdom Hearts and Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross and is available to purchase now from all leading digital music retailers.