Chrono Cross Orchestral Arrangement Download

The original soundtrack album has been hailed as an excellent video game music album, while the Chrono Cross Music Selection mini-album has garnered little attention. Songs from the soundtrack have been played at various orchestral concerts, such as the personal arrangements by Mitsuda for the Play! A Video Game Symphony concert series. Chrono Cross music has also been extensively remixed by fans, and such remixes have been included in both official and unofficial albums.

On September 4, 2019, Square Enix released the album Chrono Cross Orchestral Arrangement, containing eight tracks arranged by Kosuke Yamashita, Mariam Abounnasr, Daisuke Shinoda, and Tomomichi Takeoka, and performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. A box set containing the album, a similar album of orchestral arrangements for Chrono Trigger, and a bonus disc of two piano duet arrangements for each game was also released. The album and box set were reviewed by Tien Hoang of VGMOnline, who found it to be a short album of uncreative arrangements that stuck closely to the original compositions. He found the piano arrangements in the box set to be better, but uneven.[22][23]

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This brings us to the vocal piece on the album, "Radical Dreamers Unstealable Jewel." This track epitomizes simplicity on this soundtrack. Acoustic guitar and vocals are all this track contain, and by doing so, really helps to create a captivating melody. While it's not Mitsuda's best vocal piece, it blends together quite nicely with the soundtrack's themes. The vocalist Noriko Mitose's melody is a bit unrefined, but it manages to accompany the acoustic guitar accompaniment pretty well. Of course, this isn't the only section in which this melody is used. As mentioned previously, it found its way into the two overworld themes, but also has a few stand-alone tracks of its own. "Fragment of a Dream" is a very simplistic music box arrangement of the same theme and offers a pleasant rendition of the piece sans vocals. "Life A Distant Promise" is another track, which plays with this theme. It opens quite slowly with the "Radical Dreamers" motif, but quickly evolves into an orchestral arrangement of the theme. Violin and piano are the main stars of this show with some prominent percussion on occasion to create some contrast. Halfway through this track, however, woodwind is introduced and also plays the thematic motif.

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