Bon Voyage  Dreams of Surf   Opening  Conquest of Paradise  Monastery of La Rabida  Come to Me  Light and Shadow  Fields of Coral  El Greco: Mvts 5 & 6  Across the Ocean Sea  Theme from Bitter Moon  Rachel's Song  El Greco: Mvt 4  Theme from: 'The Plague'  Dawn  Prelude Vangelis' music is quite popular and has featured in several films, countless TV commercials, signature tunes and suchlike. This laudable compilation  brings back some of the more famous melodies as a retrospective cutback of  the outgoing 90's and it's quite overdue. Four albums are featured here  whilst a few unpublished tracks were also fished out by the Greek master to  make life slightly more easier. The more famous tracks from 1492 are obviously much better known especially the moving wordless chorus that begins 'Conquest of Paradise', slowly rising to fever pitch. 'Monastery of La Rabida' is also rather fresh; the sounds of Spanish Renaissance are there to be absorbed. My personal favorite has got to be 'Oceanic', a delightful combination of aquatic sounds, choruses and beautiful motionless sound pictures, all embracing the deep blue sea. Of the hour long album, we have the opening 'Bon Voyage/Dreams of Surf', very evocative stuff and the moving 'Fields of Coral' with its majestic painting of a coral turf. The 'El Greco' movements aren't so moving, they reminded me of Alan Parson's 'Gaudi' but still the music is thrilling enough. Vangelis' cocktail of authentic Spanish sounds, synthesizers, orchestra and other batteries of effects recreate the work of this great Spanish giant with enough accuracy. The items fished out from other unfinished projects did not impress me much although the 'Theme from the Plague' is commercial enough. A vivid selection then, obviously you won't buy if you have all the albums but worth getting for the extra titbits that are making their first commercial appearance. Reviewer Gerald Fenech Performance: Sound:	Reviewer Gerald Fenech Performance: Sound: Reviews from previous months Reviews carry sales links but you can also purchase from:
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