The Orchestral Tubular Bells

Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077778604921
EAN: 0077778604921
ASIN: B00000DR57

Release Date: 1992-06-29

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Tracks:

The Orchestral Tubular Bells: Part 1
The Orchestral Tubular Bells: Part 2

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Customer Reviews:

The low point..........2003-09-10

this is as far the most boring TB version ever recorded...while origonal recrding is simply amazing,and all hte other Bells parts are exciting, this one is simply sleepy and simple...the orchestration has no soul,all the parts originally played on guitar are sounding bad...if you like Orchestral music you will like this,if you do not like dont buy it - even if you are a MIke Oldfield fan!

For Mike's fans only.......2003-08-29

this is an Orchestral version of Tubular bells.simply nothing new is not going on in here,orchestra sounds nice - but what for buying something that can't beat the original version?
as is said,it is only for die-hard fans,the rest can be sure that they are not missing anything...
ps.if you want to buy it,check out the HDCD remastered edition,it sounds much better...

Musicians standpoint.......2002-02-03

From a musicians standpoint, I was very disappointed in this piece. The music is wonderful, but the orchestra plays this like they were sight-reading! Out of tune, missed notes, bad dynamics. This one is just plain bad.

Perfectly Orchestrated.......2001-12-29

I actually tried to arrange this piece as a project in high school, and even if you don't have an appreciation for orchestral music, this recording is so true to the original composition, and I think it's a great version of the electrified original. Really uses all of the voices of the orchestra well, and as a classically trained bassoon player, I've always loved this performance.

A disappointment.......2001-08-15

This album is of marginal interest to hard-core Mike Oldfield fans (who already have TB in it's multidious other incarnations), and of no interest whatsoever to anyone else. If you loved the original TB, then this will be of interest to you, in it's expansion and contrast to the original, as it offers a somewhat different shade of perception on the music. However, I must say, this album is nowhere near as good as it could have been. It's a very intriguing idea-TB is one of my favorite pieces of music, ever-and orchestras can always, if applied correctly, make the music just that much better. It doesn't come across perfectly here, though, unfortunately. There were two ideal approaches for the arrangement on this album: re-writing and re-arranging the whole TB piece, with the orchestra in mind; and more or less re-playing the original with orchestral backing. Neither of these approaches were taken. Instead, the music is merely transferred from the original instruments to orchestration. This makes for a predictable, somewhat tedious affair that offers few surprises. Also, the album is poorly produced. The noise dynamics are off, and it's too quiet at times. Perhaps remastering would help. In synthesis: get this if you are a total Mike-addict who loves TB, and just has to hear this slant on it... otherwise get his better albums and forget about this one.

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