Vangelis - Best Of (CD)

All Music Guide

This Camden collection of Vangelis tracks should have perhaps been retitled "the best of Vangelis 19721985." It might have made more sense, but that's a small complaint because what is here is terrific. There are cuts from Spiral, Beauborg, from the Jon And Vangelis recordings and even the Cosmos TV series narrated by Carl Sagan. The sound is good as is the presentation, and it's a nice little introduction with the word "little" being the main word in the sentence. Vangelis works conceptually as oftenand has form the very beginningthat it's tough to size him up in a single disc retrospective or even really introduce him. But this set tries and for what it is, does a decent job.

- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide