The concert album "Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix" is going to be released on September 17, 2010 by Decca (Universal Music). This is one week earlier than originally announced. The single disc album is available for pre-order through the Amazon.de shop for 14.95 EUR plus shipping.

The recordings of the concert in Cologne with music from "Kingdom Hearts", "Secret of Mana", "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross" and "Final Fantasy" were supervised and approved by the composers and the arrangers. They were edited and mixed at the WDR Studios and subsequently fine-tuned and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The concert album "Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix" is going to be released on September 24, 2010 by Decca (Universal Music). The single disc album is now available for pre-order through the Amazon.de shop for 16.99 EUR plus shipping.

The recordings of the concert in Cologne with music from "Kingdom Hearts", "Secret of Mana", "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross" and "Final Fantasy" were supervised and approved by the composers and the arrangers. They were edited and mixed at the WDR Studios and subsequently fine-tuned and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The concert album "Symphonic Fantasies - music from Square Enix" is going to be released in September 2010 by Decca (Universal Music).

The recordings of the concert in Cologne with music from "Kingdom Hearts", "Secret of Mana", "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross" and "Final Fantasy" were supervised and approved by the composers and the arrangers. They were edited and mixed at the WDR Studios and subsequently fine-tuned and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The "Symphonic Fantasies" concert was honored by the audience with 20 minutes of frenetic standing ovations. Reflecting its success, WDR Radio Orchestra manager has noted in an interview "What an evening! The atmosphere was indescribable, just magical. After the concert, we received tons of letters and e-mails. The fans demanded a CD with the recording of our concert. I am absolutely excited that Universal Music is going to release the album with the beautiful music now".

The WDR Radio Orchestra will present "Symphonic Legends" on September 23, 2010 at the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne, Germany.

Says orchestra manager Winfried Fechner: "The concert will be directed by Swedish conductor Niklas Willén who is the new chief conductor of the WDR Radio Orchestra. It will be his first concert featuring video game music, and it is going to be a special treat, because Niklas Willén is a sound wizard and at the same time he is one of the biggest fans of video game music! The young pianist Benyamin Nuss will join us again, and of course percussionist Rony Barrak who has been with us since the very first concert in 2008. Additionally we invited the State Choir Latvija from Riga".

Remaining tickets for "Symphonic Legends" are available at www.koelnticket.de (search for: symphonic legends).

"We plan to make video game music an integral part of our performances". Says Winfried Fechner, manager of the WDR Radio Orchestra. The ensemble hopes to continuing performing two video game concerts per season in subsequent years.

Remaining tickets for "Symphonic Legends" on September 23, 2010 are available at KoelnTicket.de (search for: symphonic legends).
Details about the concert program will be revealed soon at the official website (www.symphoniclegends.com).