French-titled elegance hiding something darker underneath. MANYO, LittleWing, Elements Garden, and Hideki Higuchi composed this soundtrack for Clockup's 2004 visual novel REQUIEM, and the classical influences run deep. "Hepatique" anchors the whole album, appearing in original, piano, and violin versions that each reveal different emotional layers of the same melody.
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The string quartet track literally named "Discord, Dissonance" does exactly that, taking refined chamber music into uncomfortable harmonic territory. "Apres un reve" borrows its title from Faure and delivers genuinely beautiful violin work, both solo and accompanied.
Then there's an arrangement of Bach's Air on the G String just sitting casually in the tracklist. If you like your visual novel soundtracks with conservatory-level classical chops, this one's been quietly waiting since 2004.