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Symphonic Legends – Music From Nintendo
''Symphonic Legends – Music from Nintendo'' was a symphonic tribute concert held in Cologne, Germany on 23 September 2010 by the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, featuring video game music from Japanese game developer Nintendo. The concert featured symphonic arrangements found in some of Nintendo's biggest game series, such as ''Legend of Zelda'', ''Super Mario Bros.'', ''Pikmin'', ''F-Zero'' and ''Donkey Kong''. The concert was produced and directed by Thomas Böcker, with arrangements provided by Finnish composers and musicians Jonne Valtonen and Roger Wanamo, as well as Japanese game music composers Masashi Hamauzu, Hayato Matsuo, Shiro Hamaguchi and German film composer Torsten Rasch. Like the previous concerts performed by the WDR, ''Symphonic Legends'' was broadcast over radio, now in 5.1 surround sound, on the WDR4 station and was also broadcast online via live video streaming. Concert Production After the continued success of ''Symphonic Fantasies - Music from Square Enix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln
The is a German broadcast orchestra of the ' (WDR, West German Broadcasting) in Cologne. The orchestra gives its concerts in such venues as the Kölner Philharmonie and in the Funkhaus Wallrafplatz. History Groups from which the orchestra was formed date back to 1927. In its present form, the orchestra was founded in 1947, with Hermann Hagestedt as its first chief conductor. The orchestra has been known previously as the ''Kölner Rundfunkorchester''. The orchestra's repertoire includes a full range of popular music, musicals, opera and operetta, film and classical music, including lesser-known oratorio and "easy listening" music. For several years, the orchestra has worked with younger conductors such as Titus Engel and Rasmus Baumann. The orchestra's most recent chief conductor was Wayne Marshall, who held the post from 2014 through 2020. The orchestra's current principal guest conductor is Enrico Delamboye. In November 2020, the orchestra announced the appointment of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benyamin Nuss
Benyamin Nuss (born 20 June 1989) is a German pianist and composer.Benyamin Nuss website (accessed 2010-03-13) Life Nuss was born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.Benyamin Nuss website(accessed 2014-11-07) He began playing the piano at age 6 in 1995 and was taught and supported by his then teacher Viktor Langemann. He also was greatly supported by his father, the internationally renowned Jazz trombonist Ludwig Nuss. His uncle is jazz pianist Hubert Nuss. With a good environment, he grew up with music from different genres. Later, inspired by “Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum” from “Children’s Corner,” he began at the age of ten to study the composer Claude Debussy, and soon after the works of Maurice Ravel. In 2004, Nuss was taught privately with concert-pianist Andreas Frölich in Bonn, Germany, and later changed teachers to Ilja Scheps as a youth-student. After high school, Nuss studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and graduated with a Bachelor in Music. He visited ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F-Zero
is a series of racing games published by Nintendo, developed by Nintendo EAD and other third-party companies. The first game was released for the Super Famicom in Japan in 1990. Its success prompted Nintendo to create sequels on subsequent consoles. The series is known for its high-speed, futuristic racing, characters and settings, difficult gameplay, and original music, as well as for pushing technological limits to be one of the fastest racing games. The original game inspired games such as '' Daytona USA'' and the ''Wipeout'' series. The series has been largely dormant since the release of '' F-Zero Climax'' in 2004 in Japan, although elements have been represented in other Nintendo video games, most notably the '' Super Smash Bros.'' and ''Mario Kart'' franchises. Past installments have been emulated across multiple Nintendo consoles with the Virtual Console service. The original ''F-Zero'' is one of the selected games emulated on the Super NES Classic Edition. ''F-Zero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pikmin
is a real-time strategy and puzzle video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and published by Nintendo. The games focus on directing a horde of plant-like creatures called Pikmin to collect items by destroying obstacles, avoiding hazards, and fighting fauna that are hazardous to both the player character and the Pikmin. The ''Pikmin'' series features four main entries as well as two spin-offs. The first two, ''Pikmin (video game), Pikmin'' (2001) and ''Pikmin 2'' (2004), were made and released for the GameCube and later Porting, ported to the Wii as ''New Play Control!'' titles in 2008 and 2009. ''Pikmin 2'' was re-released in the ''Nintendo Selects'' series in 2012. Both titles were remastered for the Nintendo Switch in 2023 as ''Pikmin 1+2''. A third installment, ''Pikmin 3'', was released for the Wii U in 2013. An enhanced port of ''Pikmin 3'' for the Nintendo Switch, ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'', was released in 2020. The series' first handheld game, ''Hey! Pikmin'', was releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |