Video games are an entry point to classical music for people of all ages. Listen to Discover Classical on Sundays at 6pm for GamePlay, a weekly adventure through one of today's most exciting art forms. The program celebrates the vast worlds of video game music, bringing its composers and performers to life in each episode. GamePlay is hosted by Keith Brown, a classical musician and educator, as well as an enthusiastic gamer.
Austin Wintory and A Journey Symphony: Austin Wintory's Grammy-nominated original score for Journey skyrocketed his career. For the game’s 10th anniversary, he totally reimagined the score as a work for full orchestra and chorus, and brought in several soloists he's collaborated with over the past decade, including cellist Tina Guo and multi-instrumentalist Kristin Naigus.
Horror: This week, we're exploring a variety of scoring approaches to horror-themed games. Listen for music from games like A Plague Tale: Requiem, which takes place in fourteenth-century France during the Black Death, Immortality, where players manipulate video footage to solve a mystery and more.
Inon Zur: Inon Zur has scored films, TV series, and more than 50 video games! Zur says he didn't know much about the field when he first became interested in video game scoring in the 1990s. Now, his score for Syberia: The World Before is up for Grammy consideration. We talked to Zur to learn more about his work and compositional influences.
