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Album. The Will Of The Wind. Vangelis. Released. 1988 — UK & Europe. CD —. Single. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 CD release of "Space Themes" on Discogs.
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Space Themes by Vangelis released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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- Vangelis: Rosetta
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier: ‘Tristes Déserts’
- Haydn: Overture to IL Mondo Della Luna
- Wagner: ‘Verwandlungsmusik’ (‘Transformation Scene’) from Parsifal
- Benjamin Britten: ‘Now The Great Bear and Pleiades’ from Peter Grimes
- Olivier Messiaen: ‘Appel Interstellaire’
Greek composer Vangelis has always been fascinated by space travel, and his 2016 album Rosetta was inspired by the European Space Agency’s mission to send a probe to land on a comet for the first time in history. Written in his trademark slow-synth trippy style, Vangelis’ music for Rosettacreates a hallucinatory feeling of floating through space. T...
Charpentier’s sad little seventeenth-century song ‘Tristes Déserts’ (it means ‘melancholy deserts’ or ‘sorrowful plains’) isn’t about space travel per se. It’s actually about a betrayed lover lamenting the pain in his broken heart, but the manner in which it presents an endless universe of grief inspired the extraordinary Swiss tenor August Schram,...
Haydn’s operas aren’t staged very often now as the plots tend to plod somewhat, and the characters don’t come alive, psychologically speaking, through their arias in the way that, say, Mozart’s heroes do. But the music is always gorgeous, and there are some wonderful moments to be found nonetheless. Il Mondo Della Luna is about a pompous old bore c...
Wagner was the most philosophical of composers and became fascinated by the nature of what we now call the ‘space-time continuum.’ In his final opera Parsifal, he gave musical expression to this fascination in a passage of transcendent and mystical beauty. It appears at the moment when the wise old sage Gurnemanz takes the naïve and callow Parsifal...
Since the dawn of time, we have looked at the heavens to give us insights into our own sublunary lives. We cast horoscopes. We picture God in the clouds. We shake a fist at the skies when fate seems cruel. Britten captured this odd sense of longing and puzzlement in a beautiful aria in his opera Peter Grimes. It comes after a storm rises, and all P...
Messiaen’s Des Canyons Aux Étoileswas written to commemorate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence, and reflects Messiaen’s impressions of the wild landscape of Utah. But it also reflects his religious faith and curiosity about the mysteries of the universe. The sixth movement is a strange atonal horn solo which pushes th...
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- Albedo 0.39. This is Vangelis’ space music opus. Along with its follow-up, Spiral, it’s his most sequencer driven album revealing the Zeitgeist of 1975, where Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre were releasing their space music journeys.
- Mask. Mask is a dramatic choral work from Vangelis. The choir is uncredited, but is likely the English Chamber Choir with lead tenor from Guy Protheroe.
- Heaven and Hell. Released in 1975, Heaven & Hell is a crowning achievement for Vangelis. Composed with just a couple of synthesizers, a ton of percussion and the English Chamber Choir, it’s a dynamic and heroic work.
- Soil Festivities. This is the most “ambient” of Vangelis albums and his most underrated. Inspired by life’s processes, Vangelis uses repetitive minimalist patterns, nature sounds as well as flute and violin-like keyboard voices to create a seamless, contemplative journey that eschews his penchant for both sweetness and bombast.
Vangelis (29 March 1943–17 May 2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer. He began his music career in the 1960s with the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child and in the 1970s began composing electronic music. He gained wide mainstream popularity after composing soundtracks to film Chariots of Fire (1981) and Blade Runner ...
Space Themes is a music boxset/compilation recording by VANGELIS (Prog Related/Progressive Rock) released in 1995 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. This page includes Space Themes's : cover picture, songs / tracks list, members/musicians and line-up, different releases details, free MP3 download (stream), buy online links: amazon, ratings and detailled reviews by our experts, collaborators ...
