What are orchestrated instrumentals that you know or recommend? I like the ones in Final Fantasy VIII...Thanks

I like instrumentals that have piano and violin, mainly. I'm not much into strings, so mind my taste!

Personally, I recommend the OSTS from:
Bartender - Composed by Ootake Kaoruko. It's mostly jazz piano. Main instruments are piano, violin, cello, and etc. My Favorite, Then this one,

Shingetsutan Tsukihime - Composed by Toshiyuki O'mori. Iza-Yoi.

xxxHOLiC and Genji Monogatari Senneki's OST by S.E.N.S PROJECT.

xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (movie) OST by Saitou Tsuneyoshi. The OSTs are gorgeous. ;]

DIRGE of CERBERUS -FINAL FANTASY VII-
Maybe you have this collection already? 🙂
I'll list them anyway!
Splinter of Sadness <--fave!
Calm Before the Storm
Fragment of Memory
Memories with Lucrecia
Discovery in Sadness

Getbacker's OST Makubex by Taku Iwasaki. Oh, and everything else by him, he's brilliant.
Anything by Joe Hisaishi and Nobuo Uematsu.

Maybe these threads would also help.
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