Mike Oldfield - Music Of The Spheres

[Richard]

Thanks Joyce!

The online translator is a bit crude, but it's still useful.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[drew]

From Tubular Net

We know many of you have been waiting for this! Now here it is, just in from Universal Music, the tracklisting for Music Of The Spheres:

Part 1
1. Harbinger - 04.08
2. Animus - 03.09
3. Silhouette - 3.19
4. Shabda - 4.00
5. The Tempest - 5.48
6. Harbinger (reprise) - 1.30
7. On My Heart - 2.27 Featuring Hayley Westenra

Part 2
8. Aurora - 03.42
9. Prophecy - 02.54
10. On My Heart (reprise) - 01.16
11. Harmonia Mudi - 03.46
12. The Other Side - 01.28
13. Empyrean - 01.37
14. Musica Universalis - 06.24

Total running time: 45.30

The album will be released on CD and also - for the very first time for a classical recording - on USB flash drive.

Unfortunately the release date has been pushed back a week; the date for UK release is now November 12th.

tubular.net/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=41&t=7587

[Stephany]

Hi Drew,

Many thanks for the information.
Only one song? Awh.
It's great news to see this confirmed though!

Stephany
PS : I moved this thread to the 'Albums' thread and stickied it.

[Richard]

Thanks Drew and Stephany!

I'm not a big fan of Mike Oldfield, but I like some of his music and I'll definitely buy this CD. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

I've added 'Music Of The Spheres' to the title of this thread.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Colin]

Have a look at

tubular.net

Part 1 - Track 7 - with Hayley

[Belinda]

Hi Colin,

It will be interesting to hear that song
Wow as i've said elsewhere Hayley sure is fitting as much into this year as she can. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Belinda

[Richard]

Hello everybody!

Mike Oldfield will be talking to John Brunning on Classic FM's Classic Newsnight this evening, between 6:30pm and 7:00pm.

classicfm.com/article.asp?id=227124

Tuesday - An exclusive on Classic Newsnight this evening. Mike Oldfield talks to Classic FM ahead of the release of his first classical album called Music of the Spheres. The man behind the enormously successful album, Tubular Bells, reveals what it's been like to work on this latest project with Karl Jenkins. We'll also be exclusively previewing the new work which comes out in the autumn.

Richard

[roger]

Thanks for the heads up on that, Richard.

It was only a very brief section of the programme but it was confirmed (again) that Hayley is involved in this project. As Drew said in an earlier post, the release date is 12th November.

Roger

[Stephany]

Hi all,

The cover of the album 'Music of the Spheres' is now available online on Tubular.net.
It will probably stand out in our Hayley CDs collection

Best wishes,
Stephany

[Joe]

Hello Stephany !

Many thanks for that album cover of "Music of the Spheres".

Track #7... "On My Heart" Featuring Hayley Westenra!

oooh, now I've got "Tubular Bells" playing in my head!

Joe

[mariannek]

Hi Stephany,
Thank you for the *Alert*.
I agree with you, Hayley singing *On My Heart* is a must !!

Love, Marianne

[Stephany]

There is a page about this CD on Universal's Classics and Jazz[/url] website.

'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

[/color], this is a work with huge emotional and musical scope. And whilst the piece was entirely conceived, produced and written by Mike, in order to translate his ideas into traditional classical notation arranged for musicians to play, he turned to popular modern classical composer Karl Jenkins.

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.

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A longer article is available HERE.
The tracklisting of 'Music of the Spheres' also indicates that Hayley is featured on track 7 and 10 (track 10 is a reprise of track 7).

1. Harbinger
2. Animus
3. Silhouette
4. Shabda
5. The Tempest
6. Harbinger Reprise
7. On My Heart (feat. Hayley Westenra)
8. Aurora
9. Prophecy
10. On My Heart Reprise (feat. Hayley Westenra)
11. Harmonia Mundi
12. The Other Side
13. Empyrean
14. Musica Universalis

Stephany

[comet]

"Legendary soprano"

I like the sound of that.

It has a nice ring to it. clear as a bell, a tubular bell, perhaps ?

comet

[Richard]

Thanks for posting the article, Stephany!

Lang Lang was mentioned during the brief talk on Classic FM's Classic Newsnight last week. He was very impressive when he performed during the Classical Brit Awards at the Royal Albert Hall back in May. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Best Wishes,

Richard

[grant]

comet said:

"Legendary soprano"

I like the sound of that.

It has a nice ring to it. clear as a bell, a tubular bell, perhaps ?

comet

You beat me to it Comet!!

Legendary at 20? Now that is something quite exceptional which I wholeheartedly agree with!!

Best wishes
Grant