Mike Oldfield ES el músico con mayor creatividad y genialidad para ensamblar distintos estilos de musica. No es el mas rapido o el mas virtuoso, pero si el mas creativo, que es lo mas importante en la musica de verdad! !!
Absolutely brilliant arrangement. I have been an Oldfield listener since I first heard Tubular Bells back in 1973 ... I've never heard anything like this before but it is epic. Thanks.
Ommadawn is my favourite Mike Oldfield album. Great to see it Returned to as he has. This is a fine interpretation here too. I guess it would be all to easy to make a mess of it with each piano take having its own parts. A little gem that has been hiding on RU-vid going all the way back to 2014.
Very pure, Ommadawn is one of the many albums I like the best of Mike Oldfield) I am am almost just as old as he is, and I was there from the beginning with Tubular Bells. Even now I play return to Ommadawn a lot. I am a Dutchman, living mostly in Sweden. I belong to the earliest fans of Mike) Not with everything , but with a lot of his music) Bart Creemers
Not everyone will enjoy this as much as I did, but I am a big Ferrante and Teicher fan from way back, so I perceive this as something they might have done adapting Oldfield. Nice arranging and performance.
Interesting to hear this just played on one instrument (okay, two- but both pianos)... I definitely prefer the original! Still I'm so hooked on it that I can't turn it off. Ommadawn is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Well spotted. Hergest Ridge (which I love) was a bit of an anomaly and Mike almost kicking out against the success of Tubular Bells. Ommadawn was the natural successor to Tubular Bells and was reprised :)
It's really odd... I find that while listening to the original Ommadawn, I feel the song is kind of... Off, and I kind of think "Not my preferred work of Mike Oldfield". But with it being played on only one sort of instrument, I can actually feel the compositional value. And so to Mike Oldfield, I apologize... That is one hell of a piece of music.
I'm the opposite. I find this a bit plodding with every chord change on the bar. I know that's how it is on record, but maybe I would have embelished more.
@@jeffblack5024 My comment was from a long time ago and in retrospective I'm not sure I agree with my original stance either. My appreciation for the original piece has grown immensely since. The vast range of instruments he uses in the original makes it feel like your in a completely different universe. Greatly appreciate the original!
Superb musicianship I thought it was an outstanding piece of music.I never realised how intricate the way the chords and melodies were this gives a non musician like myself a great insight into the way how things sound. Is this available to buy?
This cover is really amazing. Very beautiful cover by piano of one of the most beautiful compositions from Mike... But I agree with the idea that the final part is less emotive than the original one with the screaming guitar. Anyway, congratulations for this piece
While I like most of this, I absolutely do not like the arrangement at 12:12 at all. The finale is famous for being powerful, serious, and heart-wrenching, but here it has been turned into a sort of playful jazz riff. If this were a jazz cover of Ommadawn it would make sense, but in a piece that is otherwise truthful to Oldfield's work it is very jarring to switch moods like that when the original piece does not.
I don't agree. Since you don't have that number of instruments and vocals, percussion, etc. the final needs one more layer and that slight change works fine.
+Viktor Vigh I don't think you understood my comment... What does needing an extra layer have to do with completely changing the genre and emotion of the music? They were not forced to make the ending jazzy and playful, but that is what they chose to do. The original ending was a very serious, raw, and emotional "scream" from the heart, written to emulate the terror that a baby feels as it is forced out of the womb and into the bright, cold world. This arrangement, while certainly easy on the ears and skillfully played, makes it seem like the baby is waltzing nonchalantly out of the womb, so to speak, which is a very unexpected and anticlimactic turn for the song to take at that point.
Hi! To be frank I don't think that the part you mention were so bad as you describe it. Before listening it I believed that the jazz arranges would sound as some kind of Mississipi Jazz Band, but actualy it sounds less "joyful" as I previously imagined. In fact they are just a few seconds sounding jazzy but it sounds pretty in the mood of the whole piece.
You think this is good !!!.. You should hear me doing MOULDY OLD DOUGH on six pianos !!...It beats the shit out of my other attempt at greatness, SOLSBURY HILL on four tubas.... Seriously though, this is extremely good and well done Carsten - I love Ommadawn and have seen Mike do it live in Brisbane where he had three drummers all of some repute.
Return to ommadawn is quite good but this comment was before that was released but...........I see where your coming from. although I do like Tubular Bells II & III but not The Millennium Bell - it puts Tubular Bells to Shame.
