Oldfield’s funkier bass lines were resplendent on bass trombone and a tuba quartet, the latter instruments coping magnificently with some fiendish runs over which a host of cornets soared, the ...

English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield began writing Tubular Bells 50 years ago, at the age of 17. The record, released two years later, was the first on Richard Branson’s newly ...

There can be few pieces of music composed more than half a century ago that sound as though they could have been written just yesterday. The iconic and innovative Tubular Bells (1973) is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smith first premiered the new live version of Tubular Bells at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2021, and has been touring the ...

Now the British conductor’s passion for the last revolution in 20 th century classical music, one that seeped through to other genres via the likes of Mike Oldfield and Brian Eno, comes to the stage ...