Art in Heaven
| The Art in Heaven Concert | ||||
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| Video by Mike Oldfield | ||||
| Released | 10 February 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 31 December 1999 Berlin, Germany |
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| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 80 mins | |||
| Label | Warner Music | |||
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The Art in Heaven Concert (full title Mike Oldfield The Art in Heaven Concert Live in Berlin) is a Mike Oldfield concert video taken from 2000 New Year's night (31 December 1999) concert at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany, which is currently available on both CD and DVD.
At the concert Oldfield performed pieces from his back catalogue, his then latest album The Millennium Bell and another piece titled "Art in Heaven". "Art in Heaven" begins with an excerpt from the first track of his The Songs of Distant Earth album ("In the Beginning"), and ends with "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The rest of the piece was specially composed for the event and was later turned into "Thou Art in Heaven" on his next album Tres Lunas.
The concert was a few months after the Live Then & Now 1999 tour and Oldfield's last performance until 2006.
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Production
On 30 June 2008 Warner re-released the concert in a CD and DVD double pack as a part of their Sight & Sound, Classic Performance Live range. The DVD is the same as the original release, with the CD being a reordered version of the concert, excluding the "Art in Heaven" 13 minute track.
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