Welcome to the world of video game music

Join Jessica Curry on a brand new adventure for Radio 3 as she
delves into the exhilarating and joyous world of music for video
games.


Some of the most cutting edge, dynamic and expressive music being
made today is composed for video games. And the music, like the
games themselves, comes in all shapes and sizes: from intimate
chamber music to full jazz bands or electronica to symphonic
music on the largest scale, so if you’ve never listened to music
from games before, prepare to have your expectations confounded!


Jessica presents a heady mix of music to delight the most ardent
gaming fans as well as enticing those who may never have even
played a video game - with classic scores, new releases and some
of her favourites.


Today she talks to composer British composer Grant Kirkhope who
has scored some of the best loved video games characters from
Banjo-Kazooie to Mario alongside a catalogue of hit games that
have sold over 30 million. Grant chats about the terror involved
in scoring the iconic moustachioed plumber and how melody is the
key to great games music.


Plus we hear from music fans at EGX - the UK's biggest video
games show.


Get in touch - email soundofgaming@bbc.co.uk


Full playlist:


Koji Kondo - Gusty Garden Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy) Christopher
Tin - Sogno di Volare (Civilisation VI) Nainita Desai - Dawn
(Telling Lies) Grant Kirkhope - Oven Fresh Day (Viva Piñata)
Grant Kirkhope - Main Theme (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning) Grant
Kirkhope - Showdown Town Square (Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts)
Todd Baker - Impossible Worlds (Monument Valley II) Nobuo Uematsu
- To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) Simon Hale - Temptation, Pt 1
(L.A. Noire) Andrew Hale - Main Theme (L.A. Noire) Traditional
Russian - Korobeiniki (Tetris) Cris Velasco - Theme for The Long
Dark (The Long Dark) Andrea Boccadoro - John Whitgift
(Astrologaster) Grant Kirkhope - Mid Boss Mayhem (Mario + Rabbids
Kingdom Battle) Grant Kirkhope - Tirnoch (Kingdoms of Amalur:
Reckoning) Saori Kobayashi - The Ark (Resurrection: Panzer
Dragoon Saga) Jake Kaufman - Flowers of Antimony (Shovel Knight)