Overview Less than a year after the release of the Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections, it was announced that there would be a follow-up album. With such a short time window, it was understandable that the album would only feature nine tracks as a mini-album, having a lower price tag to match. As revealed in the title of the album, the track list would this time focus on field and battle themes, rather than character themes like the previous album. With the same team of arrangers and performers (plus one new performer for "Night of Fate", as well as Hiroyuki Nakayama taking and arranging role), the album was a chance to show that they had learned from the mistakes of their previous album, which mainly offered merely serviceable arrangements. Problems of the last album stemmed from repetitious arrangements with an overabundance of decor and showy passages that did little to enhance the simple melodies. For the most part in Field & Battle, these concerns were addressed and remedied. Body As per the title of the album, many of the tracks combine both the field and battle themes of a particular world.
This CD is absolutely spellbounding and I hope it captivates you as much as it has me.
This arrangement could have easily been a mere transcription (as it seems to at the beginning of the piece) and few would have complained, but the added progression of the piece really makes it into one of the highlights of the album. The finale of the album is the stunning "Musique pour la tristesse de Xion", which not only includes Xion's character theme, but also her battle theme titled "Vector to the Heavens". As with the original piece, "Kairi" and "Dearly Beloved" make their welcome cameos here as well. At the beginning the arrangement rushes in a bit too soon, but that is quickly forgotten as the piece pulls the listener through with an emotional performance. The first half displays all of the sadness and longing of the character, then builds up tensions before releasing it in the explosive ending. The choice of having strong chords rather than arpeggios leading up the climax was a good one, as it gave each note palpable weight and added more tension. Fantastic closer to an album that was much improved over its predecessor.
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Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts Field & Battle is the second compilation album of compositions from the Kingdom Hearts series arranged for solo piano following the first Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts. Unlike the first album which featured mostly character themes and background music, Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts Field & Battle features world themes and battle themes. It was announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2009 and was released on January 13, 2010 in Japan for 2, 500 yen.
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Dearly Beloved (From "Kingdom Hearts") Traverse Town (From "Kingdom Hearts") Hand in Hand (From "Kingdom Hearts") Missing You / Namine (From "Kingdom Hearts II" & "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories") Sonata on Themes of Kingdom Hearts: Sora - 1st Mov. Allegro con Brio (From "Kingdom Hearts II") Kairi: 2nd Mov. Andante Sostenuto (From "Kingdom Hearts") Riku: 3rd Mov.
Yoko Shimomura has really crafted a lovely franchise of music with Kingdom Hearts and after its successful first piano collections, its now returned with "Field and Battle", a new collection of nine tracks. "Scherzo Caprice on a Theme of Never Land" opens the album with a stirring arrangement that is full of flourishes and really complex playing. The song just never sits still, like a classical recital, it's just brimming with character and panache. "Sinister Sundown" follows on with full on piano at the ready again. The fact that the opening two tracks are battle tracks really sets the tone as one that is absolutely mind blowing. The sheer speed of this track and pianist Hiroyuki Nakayama has to be heard to be believed and I'm sure its some of the hardest playing I've heard since someone blitzed "The Castle" from FFVIII's Piano Collections. These opening two tracks are reason enough to buy the album. Go…Now! Ok, now you've ordered it we have "Wonderland's Surprises" which has a duality about it.
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The battle theme is intense and quick paced, with a great use of dynamic changes. Not everything is improved from the previous album. "Sinister Sundown" was released a few months prior to the album on a Square-Enix music sampler, and it certainly has all of the trademarks of the first album. The arrangement has unneeded runs, repetition, and awkward transitions with an awkward placement of Roxas' theme in the middle (although when it was mixed in with "Sora" from the last album, it fit in very well). Despite some good ideas, it ends up feeling rather bland. "Hollow Bastion" is caught with some past mistakes, putting the simple melody through many keys and octaves. It does a bit better with the progression, and largely gets by riding on the strength of the original. However, it simply could have been much better if it took the ideas of the other tracks of this album and included the battle theme rather than focusing on the field theme alone. "Night of Fate" starts off very stiff, loud, and detached, making absolutely no use of what makes a piano unique.