The iconic, animated classical music film has inspired a new game.

Fantasia is a film that redefined how to introduce people, young and old to classical music. Featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, the film’s accessible, entertaining and inventive animated settings of great works including Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Beethoven’s Symphony No 6 (The Pastoral), Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and of course Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice featuring Mickey Mouse have become iconic. 

First screened in 1940, the film was ground-breaking and even though the original production costs spiralled wildly out of control, Walt Disney’s vision for the film overruled his studio’s financial concerns at pouring such dramatic sums in to a project deemed “experimental and unprecedented.” It was a gamble that paid off with the film becoming an international hit and one of Disney’s highest grossing films. A film sequel, Fantasia 2000 was released in time for the turn of the millennium, but now a very modern day reimagining has gone on sale: a new computer game, Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved.

Disney have collaborated with game design giants Harmonix, who created the hugely successful Rock Band...