As the new installment of “The Legend of Zelda” achieves huge sales scores, a look back at the image in popular culture of a legendary game.
This music obviously reminds you of the Carmina Burana, by the German composer Carl Orff, in its novelistic efficiency and its narrative power. This is an excerpt from the soundtrack of The Legend of Zelda – Tears of The Kingdom, the twentieth game in the Nintendo franchise, released on May 12. We told you about it this week: 10 million copies of the game were sold in three days.
This obviously reminds us that The Legend of Zelda is not only a major license in the world of video games – since 1985 – but it is also the playground of a legendary composer, Koji Kondo, born in 1961.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
trailer of, The Legend of Zelda – Tears of The Kingdom, 2023
Koji Kondo, The Legend of Zelda – Main Theme, 2015
Koji Kondo, The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time, 2015
CHS, Otto, 2018
Vald, full pockets, 2019
Luv Resval, MPC, Part II (The River), 2021
Juliet, heroic fantasy, 2005
Thomas Dutronc, angry bird, 2011
Tiken Jah Fakoly, Uncle of America, 2004
Soundtrack by, The Legend of Zelda – Tears of The Kingdom, 2023
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