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
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Music Review: Mike Oldfield: Music of the Spheres
Rating: 4 Stars
I've liked Mike Oldfield's music since the first "Tubular Bells" when I was a early teen way back in the 1970's. I have most of his LP's and now CD's, and had read about how this CD was very cinematic in it's sound. I fully agree about that, much less "New Age" and much more "Film Soundtrack", that's NOT a bad thing! Not in this case. In all his music I've always liked the all or mostly music only CD's, for me not so much on the vocal CD's and tracks. Overall this CD is very good and I enjoy listening to it. Not one track is a total stand out yet, but very good.
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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