In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells album, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra working with the London Contemporary Voices Choir have created a new studio interpretation of the work. They add in several other pieces from Oldfield's catalog to fill out the set. I think this really works well at capturing the progressive vibes and melodies of the music, while also bringing a new angle to it. I really like this set a lot.

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The familiar piano brings this into being. Other instruments join as it begins to work out from there. This really does evolve, and the orchestral arrangement suits the flavors of the piece, lending some intriguing angles and majesty to a song that is already majestic. This gets so powerful and driving at times. This thing has some much change and diversity built into it with different instruments and motifs leading the way at various points. Yet, there is still a unifying theme, and that opening piano is heard at various points throughout. A voice or two come up here and there by the time it gets about three quarters of the way through introducing instruments. I like the more theatrical approach on those parts here in contrast to the ones on the original album. 

Intricate tones bring this in with a real beauty. There are some non-lyrical vocals laced over the top of this as it gets underway. Those eventually drop out of the mix. This thing works out into all kinds of different zones and territory. This has some pretty exceptional guitar playing on this song. Vocals come in later. This time they seem to have lyrics, but they are not in English. There is some tribal percussion that serves as the backdrop for those voices. Other instruments join, filling out the arrangement as this continues. After the vocals drop away the music really intensifies. We get some killer guitar soloing.