The Art in Heaven Concert
The Art in Heaven Concert | ||||
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Video by Mike Oldfield | ||||
Released | 10 February 2000 (2000-02-10)[1] | |||
Recorded | 31 December 1999 Berlin, Germany | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 80 mins | |||
Label | Warner Music | |||
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The Art in Heaven Concert (full title Mike Oldfield The Art in Heaven Concert Live in Berlin) is a Mike Oldfield concert video taken from 2000 New Year's night (31 December 1999) concert at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany, which is currently available on both CD and DVD.
Performance
At the concert, Oldfield performed pieces from his back catalogue, his then latest album The Millennium Bell and another piece titled "Art in Heaven". "Art in Heaven" begins with an excerpt from the first track of his The Songs of Distant Earth album ("In the Beginning"), and ends with "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The rest of the piece was specially composed for the event and was later turned into "Thou Art in Heaven" on his next album Tres Lunas.
The concert was a few months after the Live Then & Now 1999 tour and Oldfield's last performance until 2006.
DVD track listing
Classic songs
- "Tubular Bells" (Excerpts from part 1)
- "Portsmouth"
- "Moonlight Shadow"
- "Secrets"
- "Shadow on the Wall"
The Millennium Bell songs
- "Sunlight" ("Sunlight Shining Through Cloud")
- "The Doges Palace"
- "Mastermind"
- "Broad" ("Broad Sunlit Uplands")
- "Liberation"
- "Amber Light"
- "The Millennium Bell"
Special features
- "Art in Heaven" – Oldfield's 13-minute solo
- "The Making Of..." – documentary
- Interview with Mike Oldfield
Personnel
- Mike Oldfield – guitars, keyboards
- Robyn Smith – conductor
- Adrian Thomas – keyboards, guitars
- Claire Nicolson – keyboards, guitar
- Carrie Melbourne – bass, Chapman Stick
- Fergus Gerrand – drums, percussion
- Jody Linscott – percussion
- Pepsi Demacque – vocals
- Miriam Stockley – vocals
- Nicola Emmanuelle – vocals
- David Serame – vocals
Also
- Symphony Orchestra State Academic Capella, Saint Petersburg
- The Glinka State Choir, Saint Petersburg
Production
- Gert Hof – director
- Egon Banghard – producer
- Achim Perleberg – producer
Sight & Sound version
On 30 June 2008 Warner re-released the concert in a CD and DVD double pack as a part of their Sight & Sound, Classic Performance Live range. The DVD is the same as the original release, with the CD being a reordered version of the concert, excluding the "Art in Heaven" 13 minute track.
CD track listing
- "Tubular Bells"
- "Portsmouth"
- "Moonlight Shadow"
- "Secrets"
- "Shadow on the Wall"
- "Sunlight"
- "The Doges Palace"
- "Mastermind"
- "Broad"
- "Liberation"
- "Amber Light"
- "The Millennium Bell"
References
- ^ "Mike Oldfield videos". Amadian.net. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
External links
- Soundtrack of The Art in Heaven Concert at IMDb
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- Tubular Bells
- Hergest Ridge
- Ommadawn
- Incantations
- Platinum
- QE2
- Five Miles Out
- Crises
- Discovery
- The Killing Fields
- Islands
- Earth Moving
- Amarok
- Heaven's Open
- Tubular Bells II
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- Voyager
- Tubular Bells III
- Guitars
- The Millennium Bell
- Tres Lunas
- Tubular Bells 2003
- Light + Shade
- Music of the Spheres
- Man on the Rocks
- Return to Ommadawn
- The Orchestral Tubular Bells
- Exposed
- The Art in Heaven Concert
- "Mike Oldfield's Single"
- "Don Alfonso"
- "In Dulci Jubilo"
- "Portsmouth"
- "William Tell Overture"
- "Cuckoo Song"
- "Take Four"
- "Guilty"
- "Blue Peter"
- "Arrival"
- "Sheba" / "Wonderful Land"
- "Five Miles Out"
- "Family Man"
- "Mistake"
- "Moonlight Shadow"
- "Shadow on the Wall"
- "Crime of Passion"
- "To France"
- "Tricks of the Light"
- "Étude"
- "Pictures in the Dark"
- "Shine"
- "In High Places"
- "Islands"
- "The Time Has Come"
- "Magic Touch"
- "Flying Start"
- "Earth Moving"
- "Innocent"
- "(One Glance Is) Holy"
- "Heaven's Open"
- "Gimme Back"
- "Sentinel"
- "Tattoo"
- "The Bell"
- "Hibernaculum"
- "Let There Be Light"
- "Women of Ireland"
- "Man in the Rain"
- "Far Above the Clouds"
- "To Be Free"
- "Thou Art in Heaven"
- "Spheres"
- "Foreign Affair"
- "The X-Files Theme"
- "Introduction 2003"
- "Surfing"
- "Song for Survival"
- The Space Movie
- Exposed
- The Essential Live
- Live at Montreux 1981
- The Wind Chimes
- Tubular Bells II Live
- Elements
- Tubular Bells III Live
- The Art in Heaven Concert
- Boxed
- Music Wonderland
- Episodes
- The Complete Mike Oldfield
- Elements 4 CD Boxset
- Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield
- XXV: The Essential
- The Best of Tubular Bells
- Collection
- The Complete Tubular Bells
- The Platinum Collection
- The Mike Oldfield Collection 1974–1983
- Two Sides
- Icon
- Tubular Beats
- Moonlight Shadow: The Collection
- The 1984 Suite
- Changeling
- MusicVR
- Tres Lunas
- Maestro
- Sally Oldfield
- Terry Oldfield
- Anita Hegerland
- Maggie Reilly
- The Sallyangie
- Children of the Sun
- Isles of Wonder
- Category