As regular readers will know, I'm a big fan of Mike Oldfield's music. Here are three tracks from his 2008 orchestral performance "Music Of The Spheres". It draws heavily upon his original masterpiece, "Tubular Bells", and its sequels for inspiration, with some of its themes readily recognizable as reworked versions of the originals (hence my irreverent nickname for "Spheres" - "Tubular Balls"!)
I highly recommend taking the time to listen to these if you need to relax and unwind. Here's the opening track, "Harbinger".
From the middle of the work, here's "On My Heart".
And here's the penultimate track, "Empyrean".
The entire album's on YouTube, if you're interested. Also, here's an interview with Mike, interspersed with video of the inaugural live performance in Spain.
Lovely stuff!
Peter
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