ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火"
Song Information
Artist: virkato
Composition/Arrangement: Virkato Wakhmaninov
BPM: 185
Length: 2:06
CHUNITHM Genre: VARIETY
First Music Game Appearance: CHUNITHM NEW
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- The full version of ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" appears on the beatmania IIDX 11 IIDXRED ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.
- An alternative full version of ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火", featuring extra orchestral work by Osamu Kubota, appears on Jun Wakita's album, 音楽.
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" is part of a loose series of songs by composer Jun Wakita centering around the signs of the western Zodiac. ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" represents Scorpio. So far, 11 out of 12 songs in this series have been released, leaving only Sagittarius.
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" is thought to be inspired from Sergei Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No.2 in C-minor" first movement, which has a very similar style.
Trivia
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" originates from KONAMI's beatmania IIDX 11 IIDXRED, where it was the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE final boss song of that game.
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" is the first beatmania IIDX original song to appear in a non-KONAMI music game.
- The title of ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" refers to Antares, a massive star at the center of the Scorpius constellation, so named as it was compared to the appearance of the planet Mars in the night sky. On multiple official translations of ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火"'s title, it is referred to as Pf Concerto No.1 "ANTI-ARES".
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" was added to CHUNITHM NEW at launch.
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" is the first non-original song in any SEGA game to have a chart rated 15 on the 1-15 scale.
- It is also the first VARIETY genre song in CHUNITHM to have the top rating since CHUNITHM AIR (where several VARIETY songs were rated 13+, and the 14 rating had not yet been seen).
- ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" is the first BEMANI song to be added to CHUNITHM after all previously-added BEMANI songs were removed in CHUNITHM PARADISE.
Artist comment
From beatmania IIDX 11 IIDXRED
Virkato Wakhmaninov (1873-1974) was born to an average working family making matryoshka in the Caucausus mountains. His father wanted him to grow up to become a splendid man, so he gave him the name virkato (which means tomcat) and raised him to become a wrestling pro. He also took piano lessons from his mother, and his talent began to blossom.
Unfortunately, a fall in the market value of matryoshka led to his parents' financial downfall. In the end, even their beloved Steinway was seized, and Virkato took to practicing straight out of textbooks, using the backs as mock pianos. The memorial piano concerto no. 1 "ANTI-ARES" was born from these feelings of loss and despair.
As this is a piece in three movements, it is fairly typical of the structure of most piano concertos. However, since the first performance was on a great keyboard and disc, it was necessary to halve the length of the piece, and so most of it takes on the character of the first movement. For that reason, the differences between contrasting passages (light vs. dark, high and low polyphony) are more pronounced, like something out of the children's series "Yokatta ne Ned-kun".
Satisfied with the results of this first performance, Virkato, caught up in the elation of the moment, cried, "Won't the people who buy the soundtrack listen to something even more repulsive!?" It's probably well that he stopped there.
After that, Virkato himself spoke fairly often about this "arrangement for a great keyboard and disc", but in his last years he left behind these words: "An arrangement for a keyboard of seven keys may be possible". It is only now that this dream has been realized.
Genre Changes
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
CHUNITHM difficulty rated 1 to 15 from NEW to LUMINOUS, and 1 to 15+ from LUMINOUS PLUS onwards.
(Ratings and notecounts obtained from maimai on gamerch, and CHUNITHM and オンゲキ wikis on wikiwiki.)
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| Game | Level | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Advanced | Expert | Master | Ultima | |
| Notecounts | 389 | 579 | 1111 | 1730 | - |
| (Tap / Hold / Slide / Air / Flick) | 221 / 58 / 64 / 46 | 371 / 68 / 126 / 14 | 792 / 77 / 110 / 132 | 1347 / 199 / 68 / 94 / 22 | - |
| Chart Designer | - | - | Redarrow | Op.hx | - |
| CHUNITHM NEW→Present | 4 | 9 | 14 | 15 | - |
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