Mike Oldfield - Music of the Spheres
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Artist: Mike OldfieldComposer: Mike Oldfield
Conductor: Mike Oldfield
Performer: Mike Oldfield
Orchestra: Various Artists
Performer: Hayley Westenra
Performer: Lang Lang
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Harbinger
- Animus
- Silhouette
- Shabda
- The Tempest
- Harbinger Reprise
- On My Heart (feat. Hayley Westenra)
- Aurora
- Prophecy
- On My Heart Reprise (feat. Hayley Westenra)
- Harmonia Mundi
- The Other Side
- Empyrean
- Musica Universalis
Music reviews of Music of the Spheres
Music Review: Geniuses still exist
Rating: 5 Stars
They may miss on occasion, but Mike Oldfield (like Bob Dylan, at 65+) can still achieve the sublime. The two items with which I've begun to compare MUSIC OF THE SPHERES are Carl Orff's CARMINA BURANA and, much more recently, Ian Anderson's DIVINITIES. Oldfield's album arguably surpasses theirs. Certainly he had less help than Anderson, who had Andrew Giddings as cohort. Some reviewers are saying SPHERES should be given a play on PBS. I say he deserves better somehow, especially after years of genuinely outstanding output (yes, including his pop-rock records like the fun and galvanizing EARTH MOVING). But if DIVINITIES made the classical charts, this latest by Mike Oldfield should be there right now! Two more things: (1) Never has its creator shaped and interweaved the basic Tubular Bells opening theme to such subtle effect as in this most recent gift to us; and (2) "On my Heart" has to be one of the top 5 melancholic-bliss melodies ever. I think that's what Mike wants, what he sacrifices for, and if I could I'd do more than shake his hand, I'd probably kiss it.
Description of Music of the Spheres
Mike Oldfield has always been famed for his unconventional approach to music. Throughout his career he has consistently broken musical boundaries, and with Music of the Spheres he continues to do so. Taking influences from Holst and Rachmaninov as much as Steve Reich or William Orbit, this piece is classical in nature, but yet is also immediately identifiable as classic Mike Oldfield. Using a full concert orchestra and choir, and with solo parts from Mike himself on guitar, legendary soprano Hayley Westenra and renowned pianist Lang Lang, this is a work with huge emotional and musical scope. The title of the piece is a reference to something that Mike feels strongly: that all music should aim to represent the spriritual, or otherworldly elements of life: something beyond the mundane and everyday. In this he has clearly succeeded. Music of the Spheres is by turns epic, tender, mournful and triumphant. It is the work of a composer who above all can make beautiful and substantial music, regardless of genre or instrumentation.General Modern CDs
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