Music of the Spheres
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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… Product details and pricing info |
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30 Customer Reviews Posted
- for the movie in your mind
- The sad element here is that this majestic piece of musical artistry will go largely ignored in the U.S. Mike Oldfield has created an expansive and inspirational work of great impact here. My first listen was in my car where I was struck by the tone and range of the work. At home, through my surround system (hey, why no 5.1 release???), the music naturally came fully to life and elicited many emotions and feelings. Oddly enough, at times I felt I was hearing the score to an epic film, yet one with quiet and contemplative moments. This is music with purpose, context, and meaning. If Tubular Bells was the prologue, this, then, is the masterwork. I will be buying more than a few copies for my friends.
Mr. Oldfield should "hook-up" with P.B.S. to present this work to a wider audience which may not be aware of its availability (although I could not find it in any store in the hinterland of Pittsburgh) and accessibility (for mature and focused listening pleasure). If P.B.S. can elevate "Celtic Woman" and other third rate warblers to big-seller-status, surely the same promotional effort can be put forth to genius.
Thanks, Mike, for an essential piece of music for the 21st century!! - 2008-03-31, 18 of 19 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A "Classical" one
- After more than a decade of electronic music, Mike Oldfield does something "classical". The melodies in the album are niecely blended by Karl Jenkins, the voice of Hayley Westenra is simply amazing. To all the fans "Harbinger" will take them back to the beginning. A good all around album, closer to instrumental work than a classical one. Enjoy it
- 2008-03-28, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Master of the Spheres!!!...
- I agree with most of the reviews found on the web. This time it is a Classical type of music form the Virtuoso Mike Oldfield. It is another orchestral work from him. "Incantations" has been one of my favorite works from Mike Oldfield. Now it is Music of the Spheres. Great work!!!!!. Definitely a great work from the Master of all Spheres.
Mike Oldfield sin duda se ha convertido en un clasico de nuestros tiempos. Asi es, no hay duda alguna que es un genio musical. Vivimos tiempos muy competidos y de cambios muy drasticos con muy pocos vituosos como Mike Oldfield que por mas de 30 años sigue deleitandonos con su magestuosa musica. Desde que yo era niño he vivido con su musica, y al igual que miles de fans alrededor del mundo hemos hecho su musica parte de nuestras vidas. Hemos registrado su musica en momentos importantes de nuestras vidas a tal grado que sirven de vehiculo para remontarnos al pasado. Para mi, cada album/CD de Mike Oldfield es como una capsula de tiempo. Es increible este concepto dificil de explicar en palabras pero su musica es parte de mi linea de vida en el tiempo. Curiosamente existe otro fenomeno tambien dificil de explicar que consiste en saber que es lo que uno espera de el, es como si muchos de los fans supieramos que es lo que sigue en la historia musical de M.O. Probablemente es tanto lo que escuchamos y re-escuchamos de su musica que se vuelve infecciosa a tal punto de poder "sentir" y/o "presivir" que es lo que viene despues. Es una sinergia increible y eso que no he tenido el gusto de conocerlo personalmente.
Ya se sentia que venia un trabajo lleno de majestuosidad como lo es componer musica con orquesta. Eso es "Music of the Spheres".
Al igual que muchos fans tengo todos sus LPs/CDs/LDs/DVDs/posters, etc... en fin, toda una inversion en tiempo y esfuerzo que me deja un buen sabor de coleccionista de la musica de un virtuoso de nuestros tiempos.
Otros artistas como Paul McCartney han hecho trabajos de "musica clasica" con una duracion de mas de 70 minutos (p.ej. Standing Stone). Mike Oldfield tiene mas creatividad para producir algo mas alla de los 45 minutos. Somos muchos los fans hambrientos de buena musica y 45 minutos apenas y satisfacen nuestro apetitos. Que tal algo asi como "Incantations", o "Amarok", o algo asi como "The Songs of Distant Earth"?.
Felicidades a Mike Oldfield por otra gran joya musical!!. Hats off!!!.
Eduardo Nava.
Mexico City. - 2008-03-26, 3 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- MIKE OLDFIELD IS GOD
- HI FRIENDS AND ALL I HAVE TO SPEAK UP ALTHO IMA KID MIKE OLDFIELD HE IS GOD HE IS GOD SO UNLIKE CRAP PLAYERS LIKE PINKY VOID AND ARRIX CLAPPERTONE WHO ARE PLANE BAD!!!!!!! mIKE OLDFIELD HE IS CLEARLY GOD YEAH OK?
- 2008-03-26, 2 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Amazing!
- Mike Oldfield returns with a fantastic work. You can tell the influence of his maturity. The album is like a supreme manifestation of his immortal work Tubular Bells, this time fully orchestrated. Simply it blows you mind.
- 2008-03-25, 10 of 11 people found this review helpful, Rated:
