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Music of the Spheres (Special Bonus LIVE Edition) | 
| Artist: Mike Oldfield
Label: Universal Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3855
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 90
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.8
UPC: 602517853485
EAN: 0602517853485
ASIN: B001G7G5U0
Release Date: November 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Harbinger | | • | Animus | | • | Silhouette | | • | Shabda | | • | The Tempest | | • | Harbinger reprise | | • | On My Heart | | • | Aurora | | • | Prophecy | | • | On My Heart reprise | | • | Harmonia Mundi | | • | The Other Side | | • | Empyrean | | • | Musica Universalis |
Disc 2
| • | Harbinger | | • | Animus | | • | Silhouette | | • | Shabda | | • | The Tempest | | • | Harbinger reprise | | • | On My Heart | | • | Aurora | | • | Prophecy | | • | On My Heart reprise | | • | Harmonia Mundi | | • | The Other Side | | • | Empyrean | | • | Musica Universalis |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A classic return to form? January 4, 2009
This is the best Oldfield album for a long time, ranking right alongside his leading works (Ommadawn, Hergest Ridge, Amarok etc). Yes, it does open with more than a hint of Oldfield's signature Tubular Bells theme - but surely that's a viable way to hallmark it? You instantly know this is an Oldfield album, rather than Adiemus or some other light classical. Give it time to grow on you and you'll see it has a wonderful identity of its own, full of passion and truly gorgeous melodies.
 Classical Brilliance October 30, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been listening to Mike Oldfield since Tubular Bells and own every single piece he has ever produced including all the singles (who remembers Guilty, William Tell Overture, Froggy went a Courting?) Over the years Mike has reached musical brilliance but has sometimes, I think in an effort to be different, slightly missed the mark. (I found Guitars a bit disappointing)Although I keep in mind what Tolkien said about his book, in that what altogether was loved by some readers was sometimes hated by others. So it is also for Mike - but this is one of his finest pieces. When you first hear it you latch onto the familiar haunting Tubular Bells riff that sometimes appears but,like many of his other albums - what appears strange at 1st, grows on you until you eventually learn that part and keep listening to it, then you play your favourite parts until you finally realise the whole work is totally brilliant. Buy this if you don't already have it - you won't be disappointed.Music of the Spheres (Special Bonus LIVE Edition)
Excellent (but flawed) August 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mike Oldfield is his own worse enemy I think! If you simply listen to the music and ignore the obvious references to Tubular Bells there's loads to enjoy here but those Bells references are just too obvious - even down to the cover, where the spiralling globes form an image that, whilst not exactly the same as the famous bent tubular bell, is enough like it to ring bells (pun intended!). I'm sure lots of people will be put off by that harking back (again) to former glories.
It's a fine piece of work though, with some very nice guitar touches. Not hugely keen on the vocal piece, I feel it distracts from the flow of the instrumental, but it comes and goes quite quickly.
All in all, it's a flawed piece but still better than the last couple of new age, techno albums he's produced.
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