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.
In a press conference in July 1999 in Langeland, Oldfield revealed that some ideas for the venue for the millennium night concert were Jubilee Gardens or possibly New Zealand.
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.
Berlin welcomes the new millennium with the world's most spectacular light-show Art in Heaven set to the timeless music of Mike Oldfield performing live in concert.
Twelve fluorescent light balloons, 250 rare Xenon gas Space Cannons and 550 special stage lights turn the sky above Berlin into a unique pyramid of light under the direction of Gert Hof. More than half a million spectators experience this superlative show set at the foot of Berlin's beautiful Victory Column.
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