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Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Mar. 17 2008, 13:33 Just feeling the need here to express my absolute and complete love of Harmonia Mundi. What an absolutely gorgeous track which in my opinion features the best guitar playing on the album. Starting with the sublime french horn and travelling gracefully through guitar, flutes, beautiful oboe (I think?) and choir back to more guitar. Reminds me a bit of Ambient guitars from TB in some ways. Absolutely magnificent! Now back to track 11 again   -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 20 2008, 05:04 Quote (Matt @ Mar. 17 2008, 13:33) What an absolutely gorgeous track which in my opinion features the best guitar playing on the album. I agree, Matt. And, to me, "Harmonia Mundi" is the heart of Music of the Spheres. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

BTH Group: Members. Posts: 179 Joined: Dec. 2005 Posted: Mar. 20 2008, 14:04 For me Harmonia Mundi takes almost every single theme on the album and creates a little miniature symphony out of them. I agree, for me it's the heart of the entire piece as every other section is somehow echoed in it... Its between it and The Tempest as to which is my favourite section... -------------- Tá mé an amadán ag cheoil... Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Mar. 20 2008, 15:41 THE TEMPEST RULES ALL. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 20 2008, 19:10 I still ain't got the album (the real thing, I mean), but the part I find truly irrestistible is the crescendo in "Musica Universalis". Yeah, Mike did something like that a jillion times, but to me it's absolutely perfect. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

TheMann Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Mar. 23 2008, 16:07 What a masterpiece it is, Harmonia Mundi! An obviously proud Mike, proving to the world once-and-for-all what a super-geniuos he is; a such a lovely beutiful moment it is, the slowely developing themes ... the masterly played guitar, ... then the voices come in and I just want to cry of happiness ... this is Mike Oldfield people; this is precious stuff, listen to it carefully because it might be the last Masterpiece from him Back to top

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