Live orchestra for a Sierra adventure game. In 1997 that was wild. Chance Thomas brought the Salt Lake City Session Orchestra into the studio and gave Quest for Glory V a score that sounds like it belongs in a film. The "Overture" opens massive, brass and strings building this heroic foundation that carries through the whole album.
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"The Dance of Mystery and Intrigue" is all tension and elegance, shifting moods mid-phrase like the best film noir cues. Then "Frolic at Gnome Ann's Land Inn" just completely changes gears into playful woodwind territory.
Thomas conducted 32 members of the Utah Symphony for this. If you want proof that late-90s PC games were swinging for the fences musically, start here.