Such is the popularity of Greek synthesiser solo artist and film composer Vangelis, that 1996 saw the release of not one, but two anthologies of his music, the other being Portrait: So Long Ago, So Clear. This particular set draws its 15 tracks from four albums representative of the composer's hugely successful career from his first hit album through to the 1990s. Starting in 1975 with ...
Most composer collections are like those "clips" episodes that you get at the end of a long-running TV series which is low on budget. The tracks are akin to episode highlights and aren't really sequenced to do more than acknowledge what's made the composer popular. That's not the case with this collection. Although it only features two previously unreleased cues ("Theme from Bitter Moon" and ...