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Recorded
  
1972–1991

Release date
  
10 November 1993

Label
  
Virgin Records

Artist
  
Mike Oldfield

Producer
  
Mike Oldfield

Genre
  
Progressive rock

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Released
  
10 November 1993 (1993-11-10)

Elements Box (1993)
  
XXV The Essential (1997)

Similar
  
Mike Oldfield albums, Progressive rock albums

Elements Box is a 4CD box set by Mike Oldfield released in 1993.

Contents

Disc artwork

Each CD covers a different period of time in Oldfield's work and has a different cover; disc one's cover is red, depicting fire, disc two's cover is blue, depicting water, disc three's cover is also blue, depicting the sky (i.e. air) and disc four's cover is green depicting a plant and seeds (i.e. earth) - the four elements.

Disc 1

  1. "Tubular Bells Part 1"
  2. "Tubular Bells Part 2"
  3. "Hergest Ridge" (Excerpt)
  4. "In Dulci Jubilo"
  5. "Portsmouth"
  6. "Vivaldi Concerto in C"

Disc 2

  1. "Ommadawn" (Part 1)
  2. "On Horseback"
  3. "William Tell Overture"
  4. "Argiers"
  5. "First Excursion"
  6. "Sailor's Hornpipe"
  7. "Incantations" Part Two (Excerpt, including "The Song of Hiawatha")
  8. "I'm Guilty"
  9. "The Path"
  10. "Blue Peter"
  11. "Woodhenge"
  12. "Punkadiddle" (Live)
  13. "Polka" (Live)

Disc 3

  1. "Platinum" (Parts 3 and 4)
  2. "Arrival"
  3. "Taurus"
  4. "QE2"
  5. "Wonderful Land"
  6. "Sheba"
  7. "Five Miles Out"
  8. "Taurus II"
  9. "Family Man"
  10. "Mount Teide"
  11. "Waldberg (The Peak)"
  12. "Crises"
  13. "Moonlight Shadow"
  14. "Foreign Affair"

Disc 4

  1. "Shadow on the Wall"
  2. "Taurus III"
  3. "Crime of Passion"
  4. "Jungle Gardenia"
  5. "To France"
  6. "Afghan"
  7. "Tricks of the Light" (Instrumental)
  8. "Étude"
  9. "Evacuation"
  10. "Legend"
  11. "Islands"
  12. "The Wind Chimes" (Part 1)
  13. "Flying Start"
  14. "Magic Touch"
  15. "Earth Moving"
  16. "Far Country"
  17. "(One Glance Is) Holy" (Remix)
  18. "Amarok" (Excerpt)
  19. "Heaven's Open"

Other Elements albums

  • Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield, single CD edition
  • Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield (video), video/DVD edition
  • Songs

    1Tubular Bells - Part One25:30
    2Tubular Bells - Part Two23:20
    3Hergest Ridge (excerpt)9:32

    References

    Elements Box Wikipedia