Voyager

Mike Oldfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2011)
• Original Release Date: May 20, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise Records
• ASIN: B000002NCW
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,877 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Song of the Sun

2. Celtic Rain

3. The Hero

4. Women of Ireland

5. The Voyager

6. She Moves Through the Fair

7. Dark Island

8. Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings

9. Flowers of the Forest

10. Mont St. Michel

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning And Magical, September 17, 2005

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The War Goddess "Morrigahn" (Fishers, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Voyager (Audio CD)

This album contains some of the most beautiful Irish/Celtic music that can be found anywhere. All of the songs are wonderful, espically "Flowers Of The Forest". Each song is powerful in its own right, but as a whole this album truly spectacular. Mike Oldfield does a remarkable job with each song and this album is a definite must for any Mike Oldfield fan or and New Age, Irish/Celtic music fan.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celtic Vacations, March 24, 2006

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Sergey Lenkov "Serge" (Mother Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Voyager (Audio CD)

If you like this album by Mike - try also beautiful magestic folk music music recorded by Orison, William Coulter, Shelley Phillips!!!

As to "Voyager" itself - I had heard this album for the first time in 1996 and I was dissapointed - after "The Songs of Distant Earth" you should wait for more... But artist has his own free will, so he could do whatever he wants.
If you like folky Mike Oldfield ("Ommadawn") - probably you would like this album. Here Mike plays Celtic music with London Symphony Orchestra, live highland bagpipes - so sound is quite live, spectacular and "big" - it`s not quite a meditative new age record.
If you like rocky Mike ("Shadow on the Wall") or electronic Mike ("The Songs of Distant Earth", "Light+Shade") - you would be disappointed - you have to be in the mood to listen to folk style music without any elements of rock dramatisism or electronic sound effects. The main effect here is Mike playing guitar. So when I`m in this mood - I like this CD. It is not the best work by Oldfield but it is interesting music with the distinctive sound of guitar by Mike.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WAIT UNTIL THE LAST TRACK......, September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Voyager (Audio CD)

Even if it's kinda a good album of arrangements of well known celtic tunes ( WOMEN OF IRELAND , SHE MOVES THROUGH THE FAIR and THE SONG OF THE SUN are really good ) , the last track , MONT ST-MICHEL , which runs over 12 minutes is worth the price of this CD alone. This orchestral/choral track with solos for guitar , tin whistle and flutes is simply OUTSTANDING and looks like a symphonic poem , just like the orchestral version of TUBULAR BELLS was . The LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and the LONDON VOICES are remarkable in the playing .I was simply blown away by this track which comes as a true surprise after the new-age atmosphere that comes before , and it cuts completely the tone of the CD , ending it on an eloquent and bewitching as well as impressive note . One of OLDFIELD'S best works in recent years!!!. Try it , you won't regret it : the melodies are beautiful and strong , moving and powerful and the orchestral/choral arrangememnts are magnificent ( even though they don't come from OLDFIELD'S hand but ROBIN SMITH'S).A futur classic !!!! By the way , check out MIKE OLDFIELD'S private joke on WOMEN OF IRELAND as , in the middle of the track , he interpolates an excerpt of HAENDEL'S SARABANDE as a tribute to STANLEY KUBRICK and his film BARRY LINDON in which the director used WOMEN OF IRELAND and the SARABANDE as recurring themes . OLDFIELD'S arrangement is neat and smart as well as unexpected!!!