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Mike Oldfield - The Orchestral Hergest Ridge (Digitally Restored by ViPeR)
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General Info.........: Composed by Mike Oldfield. Arranged for orchestra by David Bedford. Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. With Steve Hillage on guitar. Conducted by David Bedford. 2006 Digitally Restored with 192 kHz 24 Bit (32-bit floating point) technology by Jose Manuel G.C. (Viper)

Wonderful complete live performance of 'Orchestral Hergest Ridge'
with Steve Hillage on guitar.

The Orchestral Hergest Ridge
Like The Orchestral Tubular Bells before it, this was arranged and conducted by
David Bedford. The BBC recorded the premiere, performed by The Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra with Steve Hillage (a member of the Kevin Ayers band) on
guitar, on December 9th 1974. This was broadcast on television in early 1975.

A performance by the Scottish National Orchestra at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow on
May 5th 1976 (also featuring Hillage, Andy Summers - later of The Police - took
part in other performances) was recorded by Radio Clyde. Virgin purchased the
rights to this recording, with the intention of releasing it.

The album was never released, possibly for several reasons. The Orchestral
Tubular Bells was not a commercial success, and Mike is absent from all
recordings of the Orchestral Hergest Ridge. Watching the television broadcast of
the 1974 performance, Mike laughed at Steve Hillage's playing, and so he may
have vetoed its release for this reason.


Artist...............: Mike Oldfield
Album................: The Orchestral Hergest Ridge
Genre................: Instrumental Rock
Source...............: Vinyl
Year.................: 1976
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.1.2 20050205
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 227 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
URL..................: www.btt.oldfield.es ( A Mike Oldfield BitTorrent Tracker )

Posted by............: beenbee on 2007-05-17

Included.............: NFO
Covers...............: Front 

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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:19:55) Mike Oldfield - Part One
   2. (00:17:13) Mike Oldfield - Part Two

Playing Time.........: 01:42:09
Total Size...........: 190,85 MB

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