"Empress Waltz" Live VGM Orchestral Medley ft. 10 Guests
252This is a giant medley of several themes from various video games, including Super Mario Galaxy, Final Fantasy 4, FF6, FF7 and FF9, and The Legend of Zelda (series). The original songs used in this arrangement are Rosalina's Observatory, Troian Beauty, Flowers Blooming in the Church, Princess Zelda's Theme, Garnet's Theme and The Wedding Waltz. It is a collaborative suite featuring live instrumental and vocal performances from 11 different very talented female musicians. The medley, which I've named "Empress Waltz" (an indirect homage to Strauss II's Emperor Waltz!) is meant to be a celebration of female virtuosity. I chose to include a variety graceful, Venusian, "queenly", feminine VGM tracks.
This medley represents just over a year's worth of work between the 11 of us; there was a lot of love and care (and countless hours) put into this. For this reason, if you're reading this, I want to encourage you to explore everyone else's work, if you haven't already. Each person in this medley is an incredibly talented, dedicated musician, many of whom have themselves composed and arranged massive bodies of live VGM covers, in addition to various other interesting projects they've each worked on.
The credits are below with links to all their pages:
🌸Harp 1 - Samantha Ballard https://www.youtube.com/user/SamiaAntha/featured
🌸Harp 2 - May Claire La Plante https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLkFgCoN5hwh3PjcA9bygA/featured
https://twitter.com/MayClaireMusic
🌷Flute 1 - Brooke Ferd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzglaKuLai2OwCOyG7AOiA/featured
🌷Flute 2 - P2 Sue https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOSOqEd0fQVRAY2UeGgUwg/featured
https://twitter.com/P2_Sue
🌺Oboe - Brooke Ferd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzglaKuLai2OwCOyG7AOiA/featured
🌺English Horn - Kristin Naigus https://www.youtube.com/user/fieldofreeds
🌻Violins - PitTan https://www.youtube.com/user/Pit0030/featured
🌻Violas - Michelle Eng https://twitter.com/gsofounder
https://www.youtube.com/user/gsofounder
🌹Vocals 1 - Tiggs https://www.youtube.com/user/Tiggachu/featured
🌹Vocals 2 - Julia Henderson https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClz6wvd5vY6XU7WTc4Sly3g/featured
🌹Vocals 3 - MatcHey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59TRZMwdZw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1YxC_Ea7YMvst4L2FtkyoMmVTcXVZLyl0Rgen-rtG3eyuSr6RCTcUF6iM
🌹Vocals 4 - PitTan https://www.youtube.com/user/Pit0030/featured
🌹Vocals 5 - May Claire https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLkFgCoN5hwh3PjcA9bygA/featured
💐Composition/Mastering - RebeccaETripp
I do not own any of the images used to make this collage art! Here are links to the artists/sources I was able to find:
Rosalina: https://www.deviantart.com/bellhenge/art/Star-Festival-517674875
Celes: https://twitter.com/corinnedraws
Garnet: https://www.deviantart.com/feliadraws/art/Waiting-FFIX-709347383
Zelda: https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=19660696&fbclid=IwAR1J8WoCrhDFbdYNd8VJ1-tE8guI9wObNeLBQn5PAYL0BvkBueB4SJkLllA
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💐Playlist of all my Legend of Zelda arrangements: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWPhxFgCdSOJ9D4hH4toE1Z-
💐Playlist of every game remix I ever did: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWON9zRaW-KZKRwBHKeLZ_V7
💐Playlist of every FF cover I've made: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWO_dUKXtlyFgG77N5Gw6zpj
💐Playlist of all my collaborative works: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWN1LrMihWsLOyNtWSSONdKx&disable_polymer=true
💐Playlist of every VGM medley I've ever made: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWNj7e7PqxLh8zCjsHw19F3i
🎼Some of my original work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsnNwoLVWWMYg7N8Z4xVogVAMe8NOH-8