when you enter your school's restroom.

Marine: we need to Run! Chief: *”No, we need to Fight”*

This will be my battle music to save the galaxy

imagine all the people in the crowd who have no idea what this song is... "oh wow this is really intense... honey why is there an assault rifle under my seat... honey we have to defeat the covenant..."

"That was a good game bro" "Yeah bro, see you tomorrow" "Sure" * Last online 9 years ago *

Suddenly, it's 4 in the morning several years ago...and I've just survived the Warthog run for the first time.

This should be the official anthem of gaming.

4:10 that piano entrance gives me chills every single time.

Classics: There's no place for an electric guitar in an orchestra. Marty O'Donnell: Hold my beer.

That conductor makes me believe that she, too, plays Halo.

Eimear Noone, the amazing conductor, had an orchestra in front of her eyes...but in her mind she was at the controls of the Pillar of Autumn attacking thousands of Covenant spaceships. You can see on her face...she is living it

When halo first came out, it was one of the most life-defining, emotional experiences of my entire life. I was 13 and my older brother who was my inseparable best friend throughout our entire childhood was 16, so we had already had so many incredible gaming experiences playing things together our entire childhoods. Our dad pre-ordered the new Microsoft video game console that was supposed to be the future. We drove to the nearest mall where the closest EB games was, filled out our preorder card, two controllers and 3 games: Tony Hawk 2x, Dead Or Alive 3, and a brand new IP we'd never heard of called Halo. When the preorder came in, it was on a school night mid week. We rushed straight out to pick it up after school, and came straight home from picking it up to finally check it out. We played DOA for maybe 3 minutes before immediately turning that garbage off, and played Tony Hawk for a few hours which ruled. After getting bored with Tony Hawk eventually in the evening, with our parents sitting on the couch watching, we both sat on the floor in front of the tv and turned halo on for the first time, with the lights off, everybody focused and ready to see what this new game was. I will never, ever forget hearing that intro music for the first time, seeing that opening screen, and looking around at everybody, realizing that we were all collectively thinking "something major is about to go down..." We ended up staying up all night playing it, pulled an all-nighter, and our parents let us stay home from school the next day to finish the game. When we beat it, I cried. It absolutely smoked all of us. That first time playing through the first halo game is an experience I will cherish for the rest of my life, and an experience I have been able to replicate very, very few times with other games.

I really love that video game music finally gets recognized more often by serious orchestras.

1:30 you are not fooling anyone agent 47

Never expected an orchestra to have such a sick guitar shredder

1:31 in the meantime, on the background, we can see agent 47 infiltrated in the orchestra trying to get closer to the target without beeing spotted

1:25 "Oh, you're a musician?" "Yeah, I am" "What instrument do you play?" "Uhhh.... the sheet metal"

Homie's out here giving 110% on smashing that piece of sheet metal, bless him.

I first played halo in 2001 when I was 6 years old. I am now 28, grieving the death of a loved one, and this video just made me cry uncontrollably. Beautiful.

I need a weapon.

"You mind telling me what you're doing in that brass section, Chief?" "Sir, finishing this arrangement."

Ok, Danish Orchestra is now the coolest in the world

The friendships we made. The joy we had. The memories. The love for life we had.

This made me tear up. Back when I was in deep with depression and going through some hard family times, halo was something I always turned to. I have so many fond memories playing with friends. Staying up all night playing through the campaigns. Spending so many hours in slayer matches. The music was such a strong component of what made this series great. Hearing it performed so masterfully and with such passion brings me back to my youth. Reminding of all the wonders and otherworldly visuals I experienced when playing the game for the first time. It just brings tears to my eyes. Thank you.

it got the vocals part from HALO:CE it got the electric guitar from HALO 2 and it got the Piano fanfare from HALO 3 This truly is the perfect HALO Trilogy Theme

To all the girlfriends out there who say their boyfriends don’t show emotion: play them this

Why don’t we ever realize how important some things are until they’re gone? Halo was a larger part of my life than I ever really knew. This is wonderful.

This song gives me goosebumps everytime.

Permission to leave the opera house? For what purpose? To show the covenant this sick ass jam. Permission granted.

Wow Eimear! I don't know why I haven't seen this until just now. Great job!

Absolutely wild to see other grown men admitting this made them cry...sitting with tears in my eyes literally wondering why....lol

ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthem

She was conducting that Orchestra like she was playing the game in her mind

Im not crying, you're crying.

Halo and Lord of the Rings are two soundtracks I regularly listen to and still get the mother of all goosebumps even all these years later. They NEVER lose their impact and are a testament to the power of music! Marty and Michael created a part of my childhood with qhat they made, as did Howard. True masters of their craft!

Literally brought tears to my eyes... the flashbacks of all those years gaming with the boys...truly spectacular

My favorite people in this video: -Badass conductor lady -Woman wailing into microphone -Guy playing the sheet metal

Sheet metal guy after playing his part and nodding: "I'm kind of a big deal."

I fucking love Eimear Noone. Her work on the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses and World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor are mind blowing.

Very impressive how all the musicians were able to keep a straight face while performing. I would've been crying tears of joy performing this masterpiece. For me halo 3 is the greatest game ever made

Permission to leave the station? For what purpose Master Chief? To give the Covenant back their bomb...

Dude, a freaking DANISH National Orchestra performing Halo? I'm really proud of you Europe.

Must be the 40th or 50th time listening to this. I just find it incredible that this..... this masterpiece was composed for a GAME...... how lucky we were, nothing since has even come close

I see a lot of people saying this brings back memories, and I wish I could say it brought back memories for me too, but I grew up in a shit era of gaming. I don’t have any friends who play, but I wish I did. I’m happy for everyone who had spectacular memories, and I wish you a happy 20th Halo anniversary.

The Halo theme is like the feeling you have during rough times, where you know you're dealing with the worst case scenario, with a high probability of failure, but you decide to bite the bullet and keep going because you know what's on the other side is better than where you're at now.

I listened to this while sitting on the toilet. That was the most epic poop I’ve ever taken.

Halo es mi niñez, adolescencia y ahora me acompaña siendo adulto sin dudas el mejor juego de la vida 🥺 amo Halo

I literally cry like a baby everytime. Idk why I put myself through this. Like 5+ times a year I listen to this. Not only the in game memories as a kid but the outside memories aswell hit me hard . . . Such simple times gone like the wind.

At least 1/3 of the reason halo was so successful was the music. So good.

3:17 "vah vah vah vah" *flips page* "vah vah vah"

I would give everything to see this in person

1:56 I count 2 scarabs, repeat 2 scarabs!

0:00 Halo Theme (Mjolnir Mix) + Halo: Combat Evolved Theme 2:37 Halo 3 - Behold a Pale Horse 4:11 This is The Hour/Finish The Fight + Halo Infinite (Announcement Trailer Music) You probably came for this one though: 5:12

“Hey” “Yeah?” “You ever wonder why we’re here?” “It’s one of life’s great mysteries isn’t it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don’t know man, but it keeps me up at night.” (Both stare at each other in silence) “...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?” “Oh. Uh... yeah.” “What was all that stuff about God?” “Uh...hm? Nothing.” “You wanna talk about it?” “No.” “You sure?” “Yeah.”

"Cortana all I need to know is did we lose them?" "I think we both know the answer to that"

I'm not crying, I'm not... just uh... okay I'm crying... just amazing how something like this can evoke such a emotional response

2:35 you can see the conductor’s major evil eye to the string player who came in a bar too early 😂

Master Chief would be proud

Got teary eyed when the 2nd piano drop comes on at 4:12 😭

My eyes water when they hit the halo 3 piano note

Sgt. Johnson: "Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"

Halo relied on music to tell the story more than almost any other game I can think of. I think it's a huge part of the reason we look back on it so fondly.

Bless the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Eímear Noone. I loved this so much.

*0:00** Halo OST Halo: CE* *2:36** On A Pale Horse OST Halo: CE* *4:01** This Is The Hour OST Halo 3*

As soon as the piano hit I got smacked by a wave of nostalgia and now I'm crying like a bitch

Goosebumps and tears. Played it at 94dbs. The popo enjoyed it so much they waited until it was done to tell me to dial it down.

A unique piece for a unique game, Halo OST is more than an OST for a videogame it's a whole masterpiece in its own right. This was beyond fantastic

No one is going to talk about the camera work and audio quality?

THAT CONDUCTOR WAS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINISH THE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no denying... the danish did the most EPIC one! It's not often i both get goosebumps and tears running down my eyes at the same time! You should be proud Marty!

It's just such an amazing thing, a bunch of people coming together, playing their part to make amazingly beautiful music.

I was listening to this and I found out that "halo the master chief collection" will be released on pc, i think wanna cry

Five minutes and fifty four seconds of goosebumps tears and memories

The conductor gives me chills to watch, her passion for this craft is piercing and we wouldn't have these beautiful works without somebody to organize musicians in orchestras.

To hit ‘em with that Delta Halo is just….so….beautiful One of the all time great Halo levels too.

God: *creates humans* Humans: *create Halo*

How many people do you think ended up liking Halo, and maybe even Sci-Fi in general, just because of the badass score of the games?

Man I was just sitting here having a good night then when the violins came in at 2:37 I started crying actually tears of joy, so many good memories man.

You can feel the nostalgia flowing through your veins.

What a terrific job the Danish National Symphony has done bringing Gaming music to a professional level. It ha done the same with the spaghetti westerns and other movies.

I love how they progressed through all three key iterations of the main scores. This is a masterpiece. By far the best live composition of any of the halo music.

What a great masterpiece! in 2024

04:25 . Halo 3: "All Ships, Fire at will". Epic.

Dad: *takes me to classical theatre* Me: *bored* KZfaq: *takes me to Halo theatre* Me: "Did someone say Halo?!"

Don’t think this music will ever stop giving me goosebumps

Man… to be in that concert hall…. I’m 20 years old again thinking about how this theme made me feel back then and still does today.

This is music to my ears.... oh wait.

Playing Halo 1 on Legendary for the first time: f*ck! f*ck! f*ck f*ck f*ck! 2:58

Escuchar este temazo de Halo Trilogy es un orgasmo auditivo, se te pone la piel chinita y esos coros tan épicos, joder una obra maestra la música de Halo

This is the game that brought me back .. to my world of gaming .. 38 now and this song was one that play on guitar in my youth . Memories .

I legitimately almost cried. And that never happens to me listening to music.

man this is a great job they did. I am not gonna lie, I dropped a couple of tears at 4:10 simply because this entire song resumes my childhood.

A tear for all those who didn’t grow up with this masterpiece 😢

I want to cry. Cry, that i can’t live this feeling again, playing this game for the first time. If i could be young again…

I know you Your past Your future I am your shield I am your sword

Damn the conductor is killing it and looks so satisfied lol.

2021 anyone? The world has not ended... yet!!

Goose bumps all over my neck, arms, legs!!! omg

I'm not crying, you're crying. This was beautiful

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