The track doesn’t really have any surprises or new developments, as the instrumentation is kept fairly close to the original, even preserving the original clock ticking, but there are a few additional supporting lines added to fill out the sound of the track.

From this first track, it is clear that the improvement in sound over the original is fairly significant, given the limitations of the SNES sound chip it is a much more pronounced difference than with the Chrono Cross Orchestral Arrangement. The album begins with “Presentiment / Chrono Trigger“. The arrangements are thus kept very close to Yasunori Mitsuda’s originals, keeping what make the originals special but not bringing much new other than a sound upgrade. The arrangements are shorter form arrangements focusing on just one or two tracks, and even the coupled tracks keep the two halves very separate. It releases simultaneously with an equivalent album for Chrono Cross, and is available additionally as part of a box set, following the release pattern set by the NieR orchestral albums from the previous year.

Chrono Trigger Orchestral Arrangement is the first official orchestral album for the game, though there have been other official arrangement albums.

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