Mike Oldfield - Music of the Spheres
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Free Music Review: mature
Hit: 5 Stars
It's a great idea of Mike to try classical music. It's mature and melodic, complex and powerful. It's one piece from beginning to end. He successfully uses the full instrumentation which gives it a richness.
He uses silent parts and more powerful peaks in a very appropriate sensitive way.
If this is Mike's last music ever (me mentioned he may retire), what a phantastic ending! He has created a timeless piece of music.
Free Music Review: Very creative and somehow retrospective.
Hit: 5 Stars
It reminds me in some aspects to many of his past masterpieces, like Tubular Bells, Ommadawn and QE2, using a good Orchestra, on a very first class scenario, on Bilbao's Gugenheim Arts Museum as scenario. It's a kind of walk across his past masterpieces.
It should be used as a film soundtrack.
Very good sound quality, altough I miss a Collector's Edition DVD, with the video in 5.1 and special features.
I found it a little bit short, but of a very good quality. As usual, Mike likes to introduce a base melody and plays with it all along the disc on many ways (as anyone else can), as he did in the past with Amarokk.
I am looking forward a disc that does not use at all the concept of Tubular Bells, and use instead of it, the Incantations scheme. A really breakthrough masterpiece.
Good Job, Mike! It was a quite fine job!!
"Buy it!, You will not be disapointed".
Free Music Review: Oldfield's Opus 1
Hit: 5 Stars
Mike Oldfield was originally going to call his first album "Opus 1", rather than "Tubular Bells". "Music of the Spheres" is Oldfield's true Opus 1. He has created a wonderful classical piece.
When I heard that Oldfield had gone classical, I was concerned that he created something totally experimental and far afield from his previous works that I enjoy so much. I was pleased he chose to start with the next evolution of "Tubular Bells" and then take off from there.
It all works for me. I'm so glad Mike Oldfield's creativity is alive and well.
Free Music Review: Emotional Rollercoaster
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is incredible. The one thing I love about Amazon is the music that's recommended that one would most likely never come across. Harbinger is one of my favorites! Mike Oldfield is a talented artist. Looking forward to hearing more of his music.Free Music Review: A Masterwork
Hit: 5 Stars
This album immediately separates itself from the rest of the MO discography because it is truly in the classical genre. Being so, the amazing thing I experienced was that I could still tell that it carried the distinctive Mike Oldfield musical "stamp." This showed me that Mike has truly succeeded in creating his own identifiable sound, regardless of genre.
I found the work to be highly enjoyable, profoundly moving and emotionally stirring. Mike has always had the ability to make music sing; to take us on a musical journey that crescendos, then receeds, bending and pulsing as it fills the heart, never the mind - THIS IS MUSIC TO FEEL DEEP DOWN IN YOUR SOUL.
I was not bothered by the initial musical reference to the Tubular Bells theme. To those who it bothers - get over it! It was worked in perfectly and expanded so as to feel new again and fresh. I feel that this work fits in easily and justifiably with his other "masterworks" - namely Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Incantations, Tubular Bells II & Songs of Distant Earth. Music of the Spheres now joins this select group for me. All of these works have the touch of genius and mastery and elevate Mr. Oldfield to a lofty position in field of modern music.
From here - where? Who knows. Have we ever been able to predict Mike's next musical step? No - he is his own man and has earned the right to be so. All we can do is be grateful for whatever else he graces us with during his time on this earth.