Heroes Orchestra - Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Orchestral Concert

In my humble opinion, HoMM3 has the best video game soundtrack of all time, composed by Paul Romero. Heroes Orchestra is a Polish orchestra dedicated to performing music from the Heroes franchise. This is their concert on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the release of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

This game was a big part of my childhood, and I’ve lost track of the amount of times I’ve reinstalled it. It’s still alive, with a number of people playing it online and streaming on twitch. The soundtrack is a big part of that, but it’s not purely nostalgic. The Heroes soundtrack is not a bunch of lazy blips and boops whose value derives purely from nostalgia, but proper classical compositions that I think hold up very well today. I think the Heroes Orchestra does it justice.

It’s funny: I’m not a big enthusiast of classical music in general (you won’t find me casually listening to Beethoven or Mozart or Mussorgsky), but its pervasive use in film and video games shows that it’s still got a place in today’s world, you just have to package it right for a modern audience.