| Music Of The Spheres | 
 enlarge | Artist: Mike Oldfield
Label: UCJ Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 200
Format: Ep
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
Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!! -
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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 89 more reviews...
 Good-to-be-alive music June 25, 2008
Brought up on TB1, I have to admit to bias but without doubt this is joyous music which lifts the spirits and makes one glad to be alive. Sit back and enjoy!
Thanks, Mike.
it just gets better week after week. June 19, 2008
Have had this lp for about a month,at first i thought it was t.b by orchestra but over the weeks it has developed a place of its own. It is not "planets" for the millenium ,it is a valid piece of classical styled music.Give it a go" your worth it".
 Music? June 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'd waited the two weeks it takes for parcels to cross from UK to the Gulf in huge anticipation after inadvertently discovering this album on Amazon - Oldfield taking a crack at galactic vibration - now you're talking!
What a deflationary, nay, interplanetary let-down.
I'm listening to and rejoicing in Amarok as I write - even though I'm depriving myself of sleep and have an early start, you simply cannot start Amarok and not go right through to the end of its glorious, muli-layered delights which include the most innovative bridges ever committed to tape - and I cannot help but wonder why Mike chose to align himself with Karl Jenkins and his Lowest Common Denominator Orchestral Music Prevention Officers. And I really could have done without the Queen of Twee halfway through this 21st Century Planet Suite (please!! - poor old Gustav must be spining like a top!). I am aghast and saddened that MOTS has apparently become the standard bearer for classical music ingenues????
Mike Oldfield is an under celebrated genius who has written, recorded and performed some of the world's most original, joyous, mournful, exciting, upsetting, gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, lively, funny, mind bending music in my universe - sadly, only the faintest of echoes are found on this travesty.
If, by faint chance, this is your first exposure to the wonder that is Oldfield, please, please, please treat yourself to one, more or all of Tubular Bells (an integral part of my life for 35 years), Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Platinum (George Gerswhin never could have known how wrenchingly beatiful I Got Rhythm could be when slowed to a crawl), Crises and, again, the hour long, singular delight that is Amarok.
Don't be misled and think that this is Mike Oldfield at his best and, please, don't let the cloth-eared nincompoops drag you down - explore the work of this man with an open mind and join in revering his extensive gifts elswhere beyond the repetitious scope of this piffle.
 Where's the trademark Mike Oldfield?? June 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This much awaited album came as a disappointment. It may be good as a classical album, but the trademark seering guitars, the power and energy in the compositions are completely lacking. I agree with many other reviewers on Amazon and elsewhere. I thought this album might grow on me, so after listening to it for 3 months or so, still I feel it has not worked it's magic. Dear Mike, please give us another trademark album before you retire!
Great as usual May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Again Mike Oldfield gave us a record that is unique but has his strong style. I was just a little surprised that CD is so short - but it is because there is never enought of listening of Mike's music.
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