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| Music Of The Spheres | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 90 reviews)
Sales Rank: 50
Category: Music
Artist: Mike Oldfield
Publisher: UCJ Mercury
Studio: UCJ Mercury
Manufacturer: UCJ Mercury
Label: UCJ Mercury
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 028947662068
EAN: 0028947662068
ASIN: B000T6K8KW
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Harbinger - 04.04 | | • | Animus - 03.09 | | • | Silhouette - 3.19 | | • | Shabda - 3.56 | | • | The Tempest - 5.48 | | • | Harbinger (reprise) - 1.30 | | • | On My Heart - 2.27 Feat: Hayley Westenra Part 2 | | • | Aurora - 03.42 | | • | Prophecy - 02.54 | | • | On My Heart (reprise) - 01.16 | | • | Harmonia Mudi - 03.46 | | • | The Other Side - 01.28 | | • | Empyrean - 01.37 | | • | Musica Universalis - 06.24 |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 85 more reviews...
Joyous and grandiose May 5, 2008
A definite return to form by Mike Oldfield and a far more complex and lastingly enjoyable album than the light-weight disposable fluff of Tres Lunas.
Mike has, of course, dabbled in classical/unplugged compositions before (notably Voyager), but never to this degree. MOTS is a full-blown classical orchestral piece.
But is it a true Oldfield classic?
Well it comes pretty damn close I reckon!
Oldfield aficionados will recognise many themes being reprised and revamped in this opus - hints of QE2, Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge (dare I suggest even a soupcon of Moonlight Shadow?) and obviously the ubiquitous Tubular Bells are all embedded in there for your delectation. But there's more. Much more!
Round about track 8, things get almost Beethovian, with a magnificently memorable tune given the full orchestral treatment. The raising of the hairs on the back of my neck is reliable testimony to the power of this piece. But do things peak a tad too soon? Maybe. The subsequent reprising of the reprised TB theme feels almost like padding thereafter. But another peak's soon hoves into sight, as the horns and strings swell to a crescendo, driving that principal Spheres riff (if such a term is suitable?) into the listeners' brain.
This is truly uplifting music, that should appeal to a wide audience. The only possible dissenting voices would be those who expected Mike Oldfield's trademark soaring electric guitar sound. Just listen to him pluck those nylon strings though and chill out!
Well done Mike 9/10!
 Re-run of old scores May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of a younger generation who missed out on Tubular Bells and the rarely heard Hergest Ridge, Music of the Spheres may come as something new and original. However, it is little more than a re-write of Oldfield's earlier tunes and themes.
The original compositions are still as fresh today as they ever were, and innovative for their time. Music of the Spheres is barely worth bothering with, unless you want to add to Oldfield's pension fund that is.
 Beautiful May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have heard all Mike Oldfield's albums and have listened to him discussing this album on the radio several times. I think all Mike's music is very special and this album seems to take all his previous work and embed itself in this new work. Mike admits he has used a lot of his old ideas in the work, but so what. It is a wonderful album, helped by the input of Karl Jenkins.
 Tubular Bells - AGAIN!! April 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
TB in a new incarnation. I have most of Oldfields work's, but was sorely disappointed with this. Very filmic and disjointed. A shame, as it could have marked a new diversification in his styles.
Mike Oldfield Breaks Wind - Malice In Wonderland April 16, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Picture this : a golden lion, a white rabbit and a frog set off
on an epic journey together to find the magical crystal of Malfernia
without which the terrible sleeping sickness currently sweeping through
the Home Forest will result in the eventual destruction of all animal life.
Along the way our three intrepid chums have many strange adventures.
The lion is seduced by the beautiful fish women of Labiamorra
and is engulfed in their scaly piscine embrace.
The monkey has an altercation with a Terrible Salt Wizard and
is turned into a peach flan. ( It is the season of the peach ).
It therefore falls to the limited powers of tiny Mr Frog to save the day, which, with the help of a good witch
(a cunningly disguised Sir David Attenborough),
three white hairs from a unicorn's belly and a full symphony orchestra and chorus, he bravely achieves.
He returns to the Home Forest a hero.
Final shot. A rugged mountaintop at sunset. Froggy holds the
magic crystal aloft to catch the heavenly orb's last golden rays.
(Timpani roll; major key brass chorale; ascending string arpeggios; crescendo< > diminuendo).
FADE
Mind numbingly banal.
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