Piano is Hamauzu's best friend
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By DavidPeacock
This is a wonderful compilation of arrangements from the PSone game Saga Frontier 2; a game which--in itself--most of the compositions had a piano as the foundation!
I'll first say that you're probably looking at each track time thinking "wow... only 2 minutes long?" but that's okay because these compositions, believe it or not, are actually closer to half as long.
The basic form--if i had to sum up all pieces into one form--is "||:A:||coda" (and for those who need the long-hand, this means that the track is played once, and repeats right to the beginning, and then there's a tag ending)
Still, these are enjoyable nonetheless!!
The last 8 or so are piano duets, as well.
I believe I saw somewhere there's a version of this album that has 4 piano + string orchestra/percussion arrangements. I wonder where they've gone?
Masashi-san has been doing many piano arranged albums since this and you can see his skill developing all the time! If you haven't yet, check out "Final Fantasy X Piano Collections", "Sailing to the World Piano Score", and "Vielen Dank". These are all piano albums by Hamauzu created after SF2 Piano Pieces!