If Bach Wrote Video Game Music It Would Be THIS | Castlevania OST

I'm not sure how it gets more epic than SLAYING vampires rocking literal Bach 😂😂😂 Which Castlevania game has the best soundtrack??

The long time composer for the Castlevania series, Michiru Yamane, wrote her college thesis based on the music of Bach.

Since Simon's Quest takes place in the 1600s, when Bach was born, it actually makes perfect sense for the time period.

Castlevania soundtracks are incredible.....but Symphony of the Night is on a whole 'nother level and deserves a talk on it's own.

BACH! A colossal syllable, one that makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of everyone else. - Leonard Bernstein, On Music

"Wood Carved Partitia" that goes from haunting to organ shredding.

Actually Simon Belmont (which is the main character of Castlevania and Castlevania 2) lived in the seventeenth century so using Bach/Baroque music is very spot on

Charles is basically experiencing what our childhood and puberty was like as far as videogames are concerned, and I'm here for it.

Bloody Tears is what convinced me to start the Piano. First song I learned to play. it's been like 5 years now.

it's not only just counterpoint. it's also the use of circle of fiths progressions that make the music so memorable.

Talking about Bach in Castlevania without going over Wood Carving Partita from the library of Symphony of the Night should be a crime sir! It has got to be the most baroque style piece in the whole series. Harpsichord Concerto in Castlevania.

100% as a speedrunner who has thousands and thousands of hours in the CV series, I have said this for years. Especially notable with the pedal points in bloody tears or some of the other tracks that you have highlighted. As far as my favorite CV ost, it would have to be Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse. Great stuff as always, thank you!

It's so ironic that as much as we all love Bach and rally behind him as a representative of music in the Baroque era, Bach wasn't very well liked as a composer. Folks recognized he was a great keyboard player, but no one really liked the music he wrote, considering it too complex and too difficult to perform practically, more so his works for organ and harpsichord. Lucky not all of his work was discarded, folks simply filing it away and largely ignoring and forgetting about it for centuries. It wasn't until the 20th century during Neo Classicism that Bach was rediscovered and folks fell in love with it. EDIT: I've been corrected. Felix Mendelssohn in the 19th century brought J. S. Bach's revival. My original comment stems from the 6 cello suites with which I'm more familiar, which weren't largely brought to public light until the 20th century when Pablo Casals recorded them and made them popular.

I never thought I'd ever get to hear Charles play "Vampire Killer." This episode is a fever dream...and a dream come true.

"Riddle" from Castlevania 3 will blow your mind

And they did this on an NES with 4 sound channels. Epic.

Castlevania combines gothic classical and rock music to create a sophisticated symphony.

For the Saturn version of Symphony of the Night, there is a jazz band version of one of the main themes. It's called Beginning.

First and foremost, absolutely love seeing you do some coverage of the Castlevania soundtracks, they truly were top tier for decades. Here's hoping the series makes a comeback before too long. Also, I'm so accustomed to seeing people who run channels similar to yours saying that they have perfect pitch that I guess I had assumed you did. The impressive factor of your content just took another step up learning that you, in fact, don't have perfect pitch. Some other Castlevania favorites... "Dance of Pales" from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and "Belmont's Theme" from Lords of Shadow.

castlevania overall is imo the videogame series with the strongest catalogue of music. literally every single entry has at least a handful of awesome tunes in its OST, some are basically flawless like SotN or CV3