Let's celebrate the World Music Day!

[Lilayah]

The Continent is alive with enchanting melodies: soothing, tearjerking, and invigorating.

On #WorldMusicDay, share your most cherished tunes from across the Witcher Universe, including both the original saga and additional stories like GWENT & Thronebreaker.

Be sure to tell us why each one is your favorite — without the story, it doesn't count!

 

[WhiteYoghurt]

Hey,
I love all of the music, it's one of the best - if not the best - I have ever heard.

This is one of my favorites:

I haven't played the previous Witcher games nor read the books, so to me, Wild Hunt were the ultimate unknown bad guys at first.
The general concept was great - armor, confident acting, mercilessly freezing everything around them,...

Also, I loved the legends - raiders kidnapping people on the full moon, their ship made of fingernails,...;
And the lore - where they were coming from, how they were backed, what they wanted, how could they be possibly stopped,...

About Caranthir - I very much like how he was designed and had some "traditional" mage elements like a staff and a fur coat on his shoulders. The circular "crown" is amazing as well. As well as the ability to fight melee with the staff; and well-defined magic (pushbacks, freezes, blinks, summonings, ice spheres,...)

Pretty amazing how they were chasing Ciri all the time; and the smaller stories on Skellige, Velen (amazing relation to the witch sisters), Avalach's hideout, the Sunstone, Gaels,...

 

[LeKill3rFou]

My most cherished tunes from across the Witcher Universe?
There are so many... but here my all time favorite because it remind me the first time I discovered Skellige, mind blowing

Another maybe less known because this tune is only played on one Skellige island, An Skellig (Not sure why, it remind me BraveHeart)

The same goes for this tune played in Ard Skellig.

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And special mention for a last one, always happy when it's played and overall, it's maybe the song I listened the most

 

[CiriusBlack]

This is one of the top songs I really love. It's creepy, it's sleepy, it's sad, it's beautiful and the video is definitely very perfect description of a witcher's job. I also have a weak spot for everything vampire, so the whole Blood and Wine launch magic always comes to mind when seeing this video and/or hearing this song.

PS: I really loved the part in the launch trailer (which includes the above song) where

Spoiler: Minor funny trailer spoiler (Hey that rhymes!)

the vampire says "o-ou", after realizing that biting Geralt wasn't very smart thing to do.

Perfect way to lighten the mood in otherwise so serious and dramatic video

 

[Draconifors]

My favourite is "For Honor! For Toussaint!":

It's such an awesome combat track that I like to prolong battles just so I can listen to it for longer. Hansa bases are particularly epic while it's playing, but it makes any hostile encounter better and more fun.

Three other tracks from the game I really love are "Hunt or Be Hunted" (my favourite part of the royal griffin fight), "Cloak and Dagger" (which really should play in more places), and, of course, Banana Tiger ("Steel for Humans"):

From GWENT my favourite is, by far, The Way of the Witcher menu music:

 

[Dmitriy_1981]

I love the music and the soundtrack in general in this game.
Of course, my favorite is The Fields of Ard Skellig. I will never forget my first impression when Geralt woke up on the shore after the battle with the pirates, and I saw THESE incredible landscapes and heard this amazing music. I think the strength of the impression was also achieved by the change in mood from aggressive combat to calm exploration.
For me, this melody embodies the dream of people living in harmony with nature.
At the same time, this melody perfectly conveys the spirit of distant travels.
Just like The Lord of Undvik - this melody is menacing, majestic, it, combined with the silhouette of the ancient elven tower of Tor Gwalha, surrounded by hundreds of ship skeletons, gives you goosebumps when you think about the secrets that the ruins can hide. I associate this melody with the epic texts of the Elder Edda and something similar.
Skellige Ard - Settlements Exploration has a different mood. It is also about long journeys, but in a different way, so curious and entertaining. I love it very much, this music.
In short, all the music on the Skellige Islands is beautiful in its own way.
I think the following video shows very well the perfection of interaction between music and the game world that composers and game designers managed to achieve in my beloved, incomparable The Witcher 3.

Of the topics related to Velen, my favorite is The Orphans of Crookback Bog. This composition, with its oppressive, heavy mood, ideally conveys the slavish, humiliated state of the peasants, who have lived for centuries in a difficult subsistence economy, completely in the grip of superstitions, which in the world of the Witcher also have a material embodiment in the form of the three Mistresses of the Forest, to whom the ordinary inhabitants of Velen are forced to sacrifice their children .
The atmosphere is masterfully conveyed by the composer and musicians, one can only admire their work.
In a literary sense, this theme song (and indeed the entire Velen) is reminiscent of some creepy Brothers Grimm fairy tales.