Mike Oldfield - The Art In Heaven Concert in Berlin (2000)

Rare .avi video of Mike Oldfield's live performance in Berlin on New Year's Eve, at the turn of the Century.



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. The concert performance includes the latter half of his 20th album, "The Millenium Bell", plus some older tracks, performed in Berlin, Germany, on New Year's Eve 1999, with an estimated audience of 500,000 people.

The concert was a few months after the Live Then & Now 1999 tour and Oldfield's last performance until 2006. 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.

This concert was released on a DVD (and later CD) with the title The Art in Heaven Concert. It is still available for purchase at Amazon.com in both the US and the UK (a few copies only).