Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wood Carving Partita (solo piano arrangement)

EDIT 3/7/25: FINALLY OMG I HAVE A NEW VERSION OF THIS PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!! more accurate, better ending etc:    • Wood-Carving Partita - Castlevania: Sympho...  . Also check out my Castlevania album! https://soundraiser.io/link/purplesch...

Happy Halloween! OK WHO HAS WATCHED CASTLEVANIA SEASON 2 BECAUSE I BINGED IT TWICE IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD AND WAS YELLING AND CRYING OUT OF PURE NOSTALGIA THE ENTIRE TIME AND MY FEELS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE OMG. This is how you do a video game adaptation, guys. Subtle references to the games all over the place and you can tell the creators are huge fans of the series, it's just so amazing and incredible that this exists and my 8 year old self is so alive right now, I had to bust this one out, which I have been picking at for some time now. Plus some of you requested it so I was like OKAY IT'S GOTTA BE DONE LOL.

Wood Carving Partita is such a COOL theme in an OST full of super cool eclectic themes and appeals to many classically-trained pianists like myself but the challenge to adapting it for a solo keyboard instrument is that it's not really meant for solo keyboard. The strings add a lot and without them it sounds really empty and very unsatisfying to play the harpsichord part by itself. So I took it upon myself to arrange a version that includes as much of the string parts as I possibly can, which resulted in an unpianistic arrangement that was quite tricky to execute but I feel was as faithful to the original as I could get. I hope I was able to do it justice, though to REALLY do it justice would be to play it on a harpsichord, but I don't have access to one of those unfortunately, nor am I trained in all the subtleties that come with proper technique of early keyboard instruments in general. So yeah, here it is, finally getting the ball rolling on all the Castlevania stuff I've been wanting to do for years!!!

(also if anyone can guess where I lifted the ending from, i'll be extremely impressed lol)