Orchestration of "Character Select Screen" by @gaspard

@gaspard has asked me to orchestrate another one of his Clavichord pieces and I was happy to oblige!  You can view his YouTube video here:  Character Select Screen  And you can view his score here:

It took me about 8 days to do this orchestration and I am presenting here two versions - one that repeats the piece from the beginning and one that doesn't.  I hope you enjoy and I'd love to hear any critiques, comments, suggestion or just observations that you may have!  This is the 2nd time that I've orchestrated one of @gaspard's Clavichord pieces.

So cool hearing both versions side by side. Same melody and overall song, but very different outputs.

In the original, I feel like the music is very precise with high articulation. But the orchestral version, I can hear the harmonies and chord changes much more clearly. It may have to do with how the orchestral instruments can hold notes.

Very nice rendition!

Nice Peter! I like the original too @gaspard, is there actually an early music video game in the works? Cuz i'd be very interested in that 👀

unfortunately @user011235 there isn’t any video game in progress.  That would be amazing though.  i wrote the clavichord version thinking it would be a character select music for such a video game though.

So interesting to see what @PeterthePapercomPoser does with keyboard scores.  The middle part really shines much more in the orchestrated version in my opinion.  I used to do orchestration before the obsolescence of finale and I feel like peter has much brighter and friendlier symphonic takes whereas my ideas usually skewed much harsher.  And some of the things Peter knows how to do I never got around to learning.  The kid knows what he’s doing!