My Quiet Forest Home (from "Octopath Traveler")

[@megamanz6618]

That arrangement for the repeat was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. It makes me proud to be a cellist. Thank you

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! I was really proud of how that bit turned out, so really glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@carolyndaniels9045]

As a fellow cellist, I absolutely admire your artistic take on this piece. Well done.

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!! :D Always happy to meet another cellist who is into this music!

[@まちょぴのゲーム音楽ピアノ]

I am Japanese. I loved this song and I ended up in this video in search of a piano and cello performance video. I was impressed by the beautiful tone. Thank you for your wonderful performance.

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! I'm very happy you enjoyed it, I had a great time putting this arrangement together. Such great music!

[@ecaillesdelune1767]

I wish I could play the cello like this, it's so heartwarming.

[@IsrafelCello]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@mustelidify]

Oh yeah, this is the good stuff. Cellist & Octofan approved 👍👍

[@ChronosCooper]

Square Enix did a nice job with the soundtrack and so do you playing it. Beautiful work.

[@IsrafelCello]

I actually heard this one before I started playing the game, and because of that I had to start out with H'aanit. It's such a beautiful theme!

[@ChronosCooper]

@@IsrafelCello Absolutely. H'aanit's My quiet forest home is the best.

[@ChronosCooper]

@@IsrafelCello Would love if you can play any of Xenogears. An old Square Enix, Square Soft at the time, PSN game that I loved as well. The sound track "Tears of the stars, heart of the people" and "Gathering stars in the night sky" are amazing.

[@IsrafelCello]

@@ChronosCooper I love this request!! I'm a latecomer to the Xeno universe, but I actually finished a playthrough of Xenogears earlier this summer and thought the soundtrack was EXCELLENT! I will almost certainly do some covers, probably not for some months because I have a lot of other projects in the docket, but I will definitely be keeping this in mind!

[@ChronosCooper]

@@IsrafelCello Thank you so much sir. I will be looking forward to your next video.

[@bogusred6298]

This is just beautiful. I love the subtle rearrangement / changes you made to it

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! That's always a bit of a balancing act, doing an arrangement like this, making sure that the arrangement has its own voice whole still keeping the character of the original. I was really proud of the work we did for this one, so really happy you enjoyed it!

[@ChanceDAFull]

This is incredible! Your channel is so underrated !~! Please continue your amazing work (more OCTOPATH Traveler music would be nice ^__^)!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!! So glad you're enjoying the stuff I have up there! I can guarantee there will be more Octopath Traveler, in fact, there's a collaboration I did with another KZbinr, violinist Patti Rudisill, from that game that should be coming out on her channel very soon! I'll try to link to it on my channel so that my subscribers can see it as well! :)

[@purpleschala]

you played this so much better than the in-game version

[@dannymusic]

Yessss!! When I heard this track in-game, I thought of you two right away, and it makes me really happy now that you've done it! :D

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks Danny!! Yeah, we had to do this one, it's just too amazing a track not to cover. :D

[@u12blue]

You made me fall in love with the cello

[@schao2156]

Such a beautiful rendition! One of my favorite pieces from the game.

[@shigashi]

Wow! I love the deep sounds of the cello, and the dainty and lightness of the piano T__T I never played Octopath but I was recommended it!

[@IsrafelCello]

Omg, play it! ♥️ It is a beautiful game, such a well done throw back to FF6 style. 😊 Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed our cover!!

[@rafaelrichards8524]

WOW ! Amazing job...! My favorite song of the game....

[@IsrafelCello]

Mine too! I got to know the music in the game before I actually had the opportunity to play the game, and so once I did get it I had to start with H'aanit because of this one. :D

[@leonardocorreia9325]

This is one of the most beautiful things that I've ever seen and heard in my life. Your interpretation touched me deeply. Thank you, really thank you for that

[@IsrafelCello]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! We had incredible source material in this game, and we were incredibly happy to get the chance to give it our own interpretation. :)

[@고이고이-o6m]

너무 좋다

[@IsrafelCello]

대단히 감사합니다

[@crystalwolfgang8230]

Wow, it's the first video that I have ever seen of you, you are a good cellist, keep going 💚

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@melchizedekpsj]

Didn't play the game but the soundtrack is evidently good. Thanks for the rendition!

[@IsrafelCello]

You're welcome!!

[@melchizedekpsj]

@@IsrafelCello Yeah, the covers I have heard of it are all magnificent.

[@Mrsp8472]

AAAAAAH! I was just thinking that this would be one of those perfect pieces that you could have done with some of your strings friends and lo and behold it's here! So. Good. Keep these coming! Maybe some with some woodwind friends? :-)

[@ascetic3312]

Will probably never play this game since it's on a console and I haven't bought any console stuff since PS1, but this music sounds really nice and you two have played it amazingly as usual. Cheers.

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks! The music, honestly, stands on its own really well even if you don't have the right setup to play the game. We're hoping to cover a lot more from it, the OST is just so incredible.

[@ascetic3312]

@@IsrafelCello I look forward to it.

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

What a beauty

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you!

[@Equinerhael]

This is absolutely beautiful. Wonderful arrangement

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!! We are incredibly proud of this one, and so happy to know that people are enjoying it!

[@Equinerhael]

@@IsrafelCello you're welcome! Keep up the good work!

[@triswinter5173]

Gah so beautiful!!! More people need to subscribe because they are really missing out!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! ♥️ My channel is barely over a year old, so I think I just haven't been around on KZbin long enough, but it means a lot to me if you're willing to share my stuff and spread the word! 😊

[@Duhemsounds]

Beautiful and emotional as always, great job =3

[@潔い魂]

Love it so much ! the sound is beautiful and everlasting

[@CynthiaBihari]

I love it. It's so so stunning, both of you. Thank you

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much for listening and following! I'm so glad you like it! 😊

[@josemiguelk9]

T-T I love yours covers amazing!!!!!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you are enjoying our work!

[@JDmusicwoodwinds]

Great playing and footage! I remember after the main title theme this being the first cue I heard of the game, and had a feeling other great music would follow as it certainly does in Octopath. Bravo!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you!!! And this exactly, I actually heard this particular track before I played the game, but when I did, I was dead set on starting with H'aanit. :D Nishiki-san wrote so much incredible music for the game - there's lots more that I would like to cover, and at least some that I probably will!

[@DarylTalksGames]

Absolutely beautiful version of this song, keep up the fantastic work!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! I'm very proud of this cover, and the source material is just SO GOOD!

[@theGameBrass]

Great great! A few of us are playing through this right now so this is wonderful to hear

[@IsrafelCello]

I haven't played it yet - I have seen a lot of gameplay and cutscenes. But we're very close right now to getting a switch I think, and this will definitely be the first game I get - I'm a classic JRPG guy, so it definitely looks right up my alley. :)

[@NoobAlly]

dude i love your embellishments in the second verse. keep it up!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks! I wanted to do something so that I wouldn't just be playing the original exactly as written. I was very happy with how everything came out with the changes we made. 😊

[@waiting4jesus316]

Absolutely amazing.

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!! This was a pleasure to record! :D

[@Majo_Ellen]

HELLO, nice to meet you~~~ Delicious music covers you say? Yess pleaseee~ Gimme gimme.

[@IsrafelCello]

Nice to meet you too!! I hope you enjoy the content!

[@PianoGameKnight]

Sounds amazing!! Love the artwork as well :)

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks so much!! Kimikapo nailed it, as usual, with the artwork, she's absolutely incredible!

[@FirahFabe]

Ahhh this was beautiful! You guys did fantastic! This track is beautiful with just having this duet instrumentation! :)

[@IsrafelCello]

I have to credit you for bringing the original track to my attention!!

[@moritzengel2735]

Very good job. You both played it very well!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much!

[@DuoBeard]

This was fantastic, you two really work well together

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks! We love working together.

[@user-or5yf1rw4n]

How lovely! Nice work both of you!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thanks so much!! This one was an amazing pleasure to record. :)

[@versusedge]

Seems like a new Mitsuda is born!

[@IsrafelCello]

It seems so! I didn't know any of Yasunori Nishiki's work before this, but now I can't wait to see what he does next.

[@versusedge]

@@IsrafelCello That's the same for me! Square Enix are so strong to find new talents!

[@MarioOnage64]

Woah that sounds so good! I wish could play this on my cello. Do you have sheets? All good if not, this sounds amazing either way!!

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you so much! I don't generally put my sheets out there just because I don't often take the time to engrave them properly, but you might search the musescore website, I think I saw a basic version of the sheets there when I was looking into arranging it.

[@Riyan-fk4oj]

Hope you don’t mind, but could I have permission to use your cello samples?

[@IsrafelCello]

I definitely mind. If you want me to record something, you can hire me to do that, but please don't sample my work.

[@Riyan-fk4oj]

@@IsrafelCello alright

[@NSSpaser]

Hey guys, great job! Just a bit of critical feedback: the mic-ing on the cello sounds just a bit too distant, so the articulation almost gets lost in the reverb. Lovely playing though!

[@IsrafelCello]

Hello Eric, and thanks for your comment. Are you familiar with the original track? It actually uses quite a bit more reverb than we have in the mix here. In this legato style music, when I played it, I did my best to soften any articulations as much as possible to create the longest musical line that I could. So, in other words, this is something that I thought about a great deal, and it doesn't bother me the way it is here. That said, these things are subjective, for sure, and I don't mind that you have a different opinion.

[@NSSpaser]

@@IsrafelCello Well hey, it's your artistic decision, and you did a fantastic job with it! My opinion was mostly based on how the original track has notes that start a bit abruptly since it's computer-generated, after all. I love to replicate soundtracks on my cello, so please forgive the nitpicking and keep up the good work!

[@IsrafelCello]

@@NSSpaser interesting! Do you know for a fact that the original is midi? I had always assumed it was a live player, in part because the intonation has flaws in places, some notes sharp compared with the piano. Not that I think it's not good, but it strikes me as the kind of thing that would happen to a studio player who didn't get more than a few minutes to get to know the music before recording.

[@NSSpaser]

@@IsrafelCello Hmm...now I feel like an idiot. I've been assuming all along it was computer-generated, especially since I know of some midi tracks that actually sound decently realistic (down to intonation flaws...), but then I remembered how many times I've gotten the "real or computer" guess dead wrong, especially with the more recent fully orchestrated game soundtracks. How embarrassing! Well, the best thing about being wrong is that you learn your inadequacies much quicker...

[@waiting4jesus316]

Is there any way to buy this cover? I would very much like too.

[@IsrafelCello]

Yes, there is! Thanks so much for asking, it's fully licensed, so you can grab it on iTunes (probably the easiest way). Try this link: apple.co/3twCEnK Also in the description there are a few other links to Spotify and other services. Thank you so much for your interest and support!

[@waiting4jesus316]

@@IsrafelCello Thanks for the beautiful music.

[@F0XH0UND007]

Do you sell cello music sheet for the songs you cover?

[@潔い魂]

Love it so much ! the sound is beautiful and everlasting

[@潔い魂]

Love it so much ! the sound is beautiful and everlasting

[@IsrafelCello]

Thank you!