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

Although, he may not have named one of his piece's "Bloody Tears."

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[CharlesCornellStudios]

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

[mananself]

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

[jorgitoislamico]

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

[TriggerTheStrong]

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

[GamerFromJump]

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

[ultradmann]

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

[bazzfromthebackground]

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

[random_corner]

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

[gardnert]

NES and SNES musical composers were all frickin geniuses. What they did with 8 and 16 bit compression is absolutely unreal.

[crimsonhawk]

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

[BlazeBops]

One of the best moments I can remember was my first weekend at MAGFest (Music and Gaming Festival) in 2012 where I not only got to meet Michiru Yamane (composer of the original Castlevania) but also went to see Bit Brigade (a metal band with an NES speedrunner as one of the band members) play her game live! She was softly crying while watching an audience of 5000 people enjoy her music as another member of the audience.

[cubic-h]

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

[Dipwad_Omega]

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

[BeastOfSoda]

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

[globes]

And not a word about Satoe Terashima - one of if not the greatest mysteries in classic video game making lore. The composer of Castlevania's music (along with Kinuyo Yamashita, who is well known) is known by pseudonym only - but not a pic exists, and no other known work of hers is known of.

[robstorm]

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.

[MrTubeStuck]

Bloody Tears is my run music on loop. It never fails to energize me

[BaDitO]

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

[Jcarroz]

Literally every track in this game is an iconic banger. We need this sound track turned into a a full symphony.

[davidwhiting]

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.