Full orchestral Touhou arrangements that sound like ZUN's compositions were always meant to be played by a symphony. This 2024 album takes some of the most iconic themes from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil through Imperishable Night and gives them room to really explode.
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The Scarlet Devil medley weaving from "Voile" through "U.N. Owen" into "Septette for a Dead Princess" is absolutely staggering, each theme bleeding into the next. "Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke" as a standalone orchestral piece just wrecks you.
The Imperishable Night medley captures that frantic boss fight tension but with actual strings and horns selling it. If you've spent hundreds of hours with these melodies in bullet hell form, hearing them like this changes everything.