Mike Oldfield goes classical! His new album, Music Of The Spheres is a 45 minute long orchestral work in two parts, with many stylistic nods towards both the great classical composers and his own instrumental rock works of the 70s.

Watch video excerpts of the premiere in Bilbao!

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Watch Universal's video interview with Mike Oldfield and Karl Jenkins!

The album has been released on March 17th. The CD can be ordered from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and play.com. Or you can download it on iTunes with the live at Bilbao tracks.

Part 1
1. Harbinger 04:08 * sample
2. Animus 03:09 *
3. Silhouette 03:19 *
4. Shabda 04:00
5. The Tempest 05:48 * sample
6. Harbinger (reprise) 01.30 *
7. On My Heart 02:27 featuring Hayley Westenra sample

Part 2
8. Aurora 03:42
9. Prophecy 02:54 * sample
10. On My Heart (reprise) 01:16
11. Harmonia Mundi 03:46
12. The Other Side 01:28
13. Empyrean 01:37
14. Musica Universalis 06:24 sample

* featuring Lang Lang

In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non living thing and in itself creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe that this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect, on our lives. What would happen if we took this further and apply this to bigger things, more powerful things: like an entire solar system or galaxy say, what would that sound like?

Musica Universalis is the ancient theory that every celestial body, the sun, the moon and the stars has an inner music. This is a harmonic and mathematical concept derived from the movements of the planets in the solar system. The music created is inaudible to the human ear.

Music of the Spheres is my interpretation of this theory. Every planet and every star: even the whole universe has music within it that no-one can hear, this is what it would sound like if it was set free. This is Music of the Spheres.

Mike Oldfield.