MYTHODEA

' Mission To Mars'......Mythodea is a highly underrated work from Vangelis. This is Vangelis at his most sophisticated in a classical sense. The music is richly woven with large backdrops of orchestral arrangements. The operatic contributions go one better than his masterpiece El Greco. The only draw back is the music does not quite hold up as well.' Movement I' tends to get tiresome after the first 3 minutes and only then does the album slowly start getting it together. As I say the ladies in the operatic department are incredible. Thank you Vangelis for getting me into operas!! It is in essence another soundtrack album but Vangelis went one step further and created and awkward, complex yet stirringly beautiful piece of work. Three and a half stars.