Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath-

Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath- is an official orchestral concert of  music performed by a full concert band. The concert was announced on the Kingdom Hearts Japanese Twitter page on April 26, 2016. A website was created to promote the concert, which premiered on August 11, 2016 in Tokyo Japan.

Program
The performance was about an hour long and features fourteen different pieces of musical arrangements from the Kingdom Hearts series. The pieces were performed by a symphonic concert band. Additionally, announced via Twitter the week before the concert debuted that the Japanese voice actors for Terra and Naminé would be present at each of the performances. The program featured a conversation between Terra and Naminé portrayed by their voice actors, which is considered to the series and was featured in the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World Tour- guide.

Album


An album for the concert was announced for public sale on May 25, 2017 and features all, of the pieces planned to be performed at the concert. Originally, Square Enix had no plans of releasing the concert in CD or DVD form. The album released on July 26, 2017 for 3,300 yen. On October 2, 2017, it was announced that the album would be released in North America on October 31, and in Europe sometime that same month.