ORCHESTRAL HERGEST RIDGE (live) PART 2

[@tonystaveacre6079]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. The aerial footage was perilous: cameraman hanging out of the side of a helicopter. Long before drones of course! Best wishes from Tony Staveacre (director)

[@armeniozeitounlian8255]

Hergest Ridge is one of the reasons life still makes sense.

[@bandfromtheband9445]

Tears. I get very emotional when I hear Hergest Ridge.

[@DRAKE-WOOD-EARTH-CLARCK]

Connaissant parfaitement les albums de Mike Oldfield depuis Tubular Bells, les ayant tous eu depuis les années 73's, je n'avais jamais vu cet Orchestral Hergest Ridge, Superbe.

[@olivierserre727]

Duncan Ward idem ... belle reprise

[@JeansBlue60]

As fabulous as part one. This proves again Oldfield´s genius - he was twenty, when he composed this masterpiece.

[@alanlegge696]

Amazing , thanks for posting Tony ...Fond regards Alan

Beautiful work is a sound poem of deep nostalgia, it takes me to the neighborhoods of Ñuñoa where I studied my high school in the late 70s. Greetings from Santiago de Chile. .... and thanks mrranMúsica for sharing.

[@royrashbrook]

I have just watched this to the end - and noticed that you were the original director of this and of the Orchestral Tubular Bells clips. Many many thanks for posting these on You tube and for getting them made in the first place. I like all the focus work on individual instruments in the TB filming. You seem to have had very limited camera positions with which to work back in the 70s. You've made a lot of MO fans very happy by putting this up.

[@tonystaveacre7121]

***** Thanks, Roy. Yes you are right, the camera positions were dictated by unsold tickets. Also the lighting was a bit hit and miss. But still, I'm glad it's being enjoyed 40 years on!Best wishes,TonyS

[@samuelglassjr.5514]

Thanks for posting this. Now you can hear what MO intended with a full orchestra. I wish someone would do this now, full out with the London Symphony and the English Chorale....

[@wolfvopo1502]

My second LP ever and surely this led to a path of a highly welcomed non-conformity in musical behaviours of mine since over 30 years! Mike Oldfield just reemerged here for me and I am very proud to rediscover this! Hope that Hergest Ridge will have very soon a rediscovery either classic (!!!) or progressive or folk, the time is more than ripe for this!!!

[@soppdrake]

I remember hearing this on the newly started Capital radio in England when the album was released. They played the whole album, non stop. I went out and bought it, then I bought Tubular Bells. Always preferred this, actually. Nostalgia overdose.

[@slyslaughter5115]

I wish this version was on vinyl or CD

[@marccantin1098]

Étant un fan de longue date, je suis littéralement "renversé" par la découverte de cette vidéo.....! Je savais qu'un "bootleg" audio existait, mais je prenais pour acquis que le produit ne serait jamais disponible sur le marché. J'ignorais que le tout avait été filmé en...75. La finale avec les images du survol de la région de Hergest Ridge en planeur, est tout simplement magistrale. Grande question, mais d'ou provient donc ce film, puisqu'aucune version officielle n'a jamais été mise en marché, il n'est n'est même pas question dans les nombreuses vidéos couvrant la carrière de MO.....mystère!

[@iorgosprog]

Cela a été indiqué dans Rock and Folk n°98 de Mars 1975. Cela était passé sur la BBC 3. Dans la foulée, Tubular Bells et Hergest Ridge ont été réenregistrés en studio. C'est pour cela que les versions sont différentes.

[@yanouch65]

iorgosprog Bonjour.Je vous ai envoyé un message privé concernant ce numéro de Rock and Folk. Merci d'y jeter un coup d'œil. Y

[@tonystaveacre7121]

Marc Cantin Dear Marc,I hope you have a bit of English, I have very little French. This film was shot by me in 1974 or 1975. I was a young director working for BBC-tv Music & Arts. I had previously directed Tubular Bells (Part 1 ) in a BBC studio, and so we thought the orchestral concert would be interesting. I also knew David Bedford very well. The aerial shots of a glider flying over the Ridge were filmed by my cameraman Fred Hamilton, hanging out of the side of a helicopter, with me holding onto his belt. It was very cold, but the light on that moment on that day was just extraordinary. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.With very best wishes,Tony Staveacre

[@marccantin1098]

Tony Staveacre Hi Tony, thank you so much for these informations. As you can see, yes.....I do have more than a bit of english :). I guess everyone has his own story about Hergest Rigde. When I first heard the original version, it was late september in the province of Quebec, the fall and it's beautiful colors had begun....each time I'm listening to HR, it' s kind of a reminiscence of fall.....it became for me, an annual ritual of listening to it during...the fall season only......exactly the same way we listen to christmas records in....december. Your video......the light.....the ambiance....reaches very much my "own world", that strong image built-into myself ( the story does not tell if MO was in such moods while composing it) . Since you relate to the cold, I guess there a synchronicity with your filming and the fall equinox....am I wright ? Thank you again for you answer, I never thought the original producer himself would reply....merci beaucoup Monsieur :) c'est fantastique....quel superbe artefact des années 70....

[@marccantin1098]

iorgosprog Bonjour. Merci pour l'info. Cependant, je n'arrive pas retrouver une version gratuite du R&F de mars 75, du moins...pas gratuite ( vue $$ sur Ebay).

[@peterzazzi5724]

At 15 I bought this album by mistake.. Best musical mistake of my life. I cried once to the oboe part.

[@blairmacewancrosbie8646]

just listened to it again, brilliant, It reminds me of a RVW symphony. Very English in its sound and atmosphere.

[@gbozoki]

Thank you very much for uploading this concert - I had no idea until now that Hergest Ridge had an orchestral version.

[@PaulBarry.]

Just amazing. Thank you Tony Staveacre for posting this.

[@つくしんぼ-h4m]

この「ハージェストリッジ」という曲の偉大さを知ることができました。すばらしい演奏です。

[@tomsacadden]

this really was so far ahead of it's time , it really is phenam,, finomen,,,phenem,,, fabulous !!!!

[@manosdepiedra4094]

Amazing orchestration, to replicate this album. Mike Oldfield was reputed to wear out his tapes in the studio with so many over-recordings and dubbings.

[@timweatherill3738]

You're right. In the case of Hergest Ridge, he really screwed the tapes so badly, the version released was not in any way ideal. I was always annoyed by the poor quality of the recording because I think Hergest Ridge is his best composition ~ my favourite, anyway. Cheers.

[@Mixxathon]

Wonderful share! Thank you mr Staveacre.

[@marccantin1098]

It is sad that this movie has never been commercialised. It's also mysterious that it was never mentionned in both video versions of "Elements"......

[@thewordofgord]

Thanks also from me, TonyS, lovely bit of Oldfield/Bedford memorabilia. There can't be too many films of Bedford conducting. Don't think the Orchestral Hergest Ridge album was even released here in Canada. Didn't know it existed until I saw this some months back. The Orchestral Tubular Bells did get a release here however.

[@dreamyblue44]

Those heavenly voices, wonderful stuff! :-)

[@ivanaminafra7613]

thanks for this pearl

[@Stadtpark90]

This made me "understand" Hergest Ridge better.

[@ivanaminafra7613]

same here

[@gamleprut8175]

Why ppl forget to like this is beoynd me ?Tanx for making/posting - nice to make a wibbly wobbly peek to the past :)Tanx to Mike Oldfield for making this up in the first place

[@osmartapia8864]

Amo esta pieza!!! Gracias por subirla.

[@TheTakatxun]

Thanks for sharing

[@blairmacewancrosbie8646]

beautiful version. It has a pastoral feel to it, akin to RVW, Finzi, et al.

[@LuizClaudio-mi3gq]

Just startling. From where came this spirit?

[@PedroMiguel-kw5mp]

Mike's music is a magic world at your doors....have u started opening them?

[@andrescarvallo5446]

wonderful 👍👍

[@johnmurphy5623]

Lovely.

[@katsaprokos1]

07.43'...THE VIOLIN...

[@jamessonhil5291]

I think this is actually from December 9 1974.

[@KOIFLA]

Sounds more like pt1. Still very nice but miss titled I think.

[@sacddvda1936]

Yes, I think it's actually the 2nd half of Part 1 rather than being Part 2.

[@kwotaltern]

E x c e l l e n t !!!

[@jonathanbarrott9752]

Like a white bird a dove of peace the glider here is seen shown as it glides 4th in its here angelic 4m,,, a messenger carrying 4th its heavenly meSSage from afar high high high above acting as the beacon of delight in the dARK of night LET THERE BE LIGHT * ;-) & in it seen the sight 8-) Over & Out...

[@robcheerful]

✔️

[@jerksmerk42]

could use an otticial release

[@jonathanbarrott9752]

I hate to write this but I honestly think that Hergest ridge the orchestral version here is a far far better version than Mike released upon the official album,,, yet in my opinion the same can not be said when it comes to the orchestral version of Tubular bells, to my mind that per4mance was very poor...

[@royhumphrey49]

Sorry but the conductor (Devid Bedford) is simply beating time and leading instruments in. His mode of dress is an insult to the orchestra and the potential that Mike Oldfield could have developed. There is no interpretation or dynanisism that say, Gustavo Dudamel could introduce. Frankly it sounded dull - a piece to be filed away in the 70s and not brought to life in the 10s.