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David Gilmour: Live In Gdańsk



David Gilmour


David Gilmour will release Live In Gdańsk, a double live album plus concert DVD, September 16 via Columbia Records.



The last concert on Gilmour's 2006 Summer Tour was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdańsk, Poland, at the request of the Gdańsk Foundation. The August 26 event took place on the 26th anniversary of the founding of Trade Union Solidarity in Poland. The concert was the only occasion on which Gilmour performed the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for the On An Island album's orchestral arrangements. This is the first-ever recording of certain Pink Floyd songs performed with an orchestra.



Other unique features of the show included the special six-screen design, created by lightmeister Marc Brickman to allow each band member his own dedicated screen for the edification of the audience; the performance of “A Great Day For Freedom" with the orchestral arrangement of the late Michael Kamen, and a guest appearance by prominent Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer, who reprised his piano part from “A Pocketful Of Stones."

There will be a number of formats geared at different price ranges. There will be a 2-CD audio-only version, a 3-disc version, which includes an extra concert DVD (114 minutes long) and “Gdańsk Diary," a 37-minute filmed documentary. There is also a 4-disc version, plus a 5-disc package, as well as a vinyl offering in a box of LPs: 8 sides will be the concert while the fifth disc holds two “Barn Jams," “On The Turning Away live from Venice," and two songs from the “Live From Abbey Road" sessions. You also get a 'Webpass,' which allows one complete download of the whole five discs in MP3 format to a computer of your choice.







The album tracklisting is:



Disc 1
'Speak To Me'
'Breathe'
'Time'
'Breathe' (reprise)
'Castellorizon' *
'On An Island' *
'The Blue' *
'Red Sky At Night' *
'This Heaven' *
'Then I Close My Eyes' *
'Smile' *
'Take A Breath' *
'A Pocketful Of Stones' *
'Where We Start' *





Disc 2
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'
'Astronomy Domine'
'Fat Old Sun'
'High Hopes' *
'Echoes'
'Wish You Were Here'
'A Great Day For Freedom' *
'Comfortably Numb' *



*Accompanied by the 40-strong section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner



Disc 3 -- DVD
Part 1 -- David Gilmour Live in Gdansk
'Castellorizon'
'On An Island'
'The Blue'
'Red Sky At Night'
'This Heaven'
'Then I Close My Eyes'
'Smile'
'Take A Breath'
'A Pocketful Of Stones'
'Where We Start'
'Astronomy Domine'
'High Hopes'
'Echoes'
'A Great Day For Freedom'
'Comfortably Numb'



Part 2 -- Gdansk Diary
36-minute film documenting the Solidarity Concert events



Disc 4 -- DVD
'Castellorizon'
'On An Island'
'The Blue'
'Take A Breath'
'Red Sky At Night'
'This Heaven'
'Then I Close My Eyes'
'Smile'
'A Pocketful Of Stones'
'Where We Start'



Disc 5 -- bonus tracks from the 'On An Island' Tour, 2006:
'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' (Vienne, July 31/Venice August 12)
'Dominoes' (Paris, March 15)
'The Blue' (Vienne, July 31)
'Take A Breath' (Munich, July 29)
'Wish You Were Here' (Glasgow, May 27)
'Coming Back To Life' (Florence, August 2)
'Find The Cost Of Freedom' (Manchester, May 26)
'This Heaven' (Vienne, July 31)
'Wearing The Inside Out' (Milan, March 25)
'A Pocketful Of Stones' (Vienne, July 31)
'Where We Start' (Vienne, July 31)
'On The Turning Away' (Venice, August 31)

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