The Mellotron Group

Thanks Frank !

I am already somewhat familiar with and love the works of Byrd, Dowland, Part, Tallis, & of course Eno...

Great stuff !


Robert


--- On Mon, 8/2/10, lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:

From: lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Something that may be of interest.
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 8:57 PM







 



  


    
      
      
      


I thought some of you might like this. Many won't.
 
Frank
 
http://www.bigozine 2.com/archive/ ARrarities07/ ARbebath. html
 

 

Click 
on the panels to download artwork





Brian Eno, Joanna MacGregor and 
Bath Camerata
Bath Abbey 2006 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Bath International Music 
Festival 2006, May 24, 2006 (late show).
Imagine Brian Eno tackling 
Arvo Part's The Beautitudes - a collusion of the ambient and the ancient. As the 
artistic director of Britain's Bath's Festival, pianist/auteur Joanna MacGregor 
had invited electronic maestro Brian Eno to perform at the 2006 Festival. With 
the choir of Bath Camerata in attendance, the show is both meditative and 
interesting.
As The Independent 
newspaper reported: "Seated at a desk (looking rather like a newsreader in his 
grey suit and specs, Apple Powerbook open in front of him), Eno made 
announcements, intoned poetry in his impressive, actor-ish voice, and even sang 
along with the choir. By twiddling a little console connected to the computer, 
he also 'treated' MacGregor's Steinway and the voices of the choir with the 
sonic shivers and shimmers - a kind of audio-ectoplasm - that characterise his 
famous ambient works.
"In the most compelling 
sequence of a wonderfully varied programme, MacGregor's Eno-ised version of 
Dowland's Lachrymae - slowed-down to ambient-tempo - was followed by selections 
from Eno's own Music For Airports. With the members of the choir now dotted 
about the abbey (a feature of the performance) , their wordless vocals, combined 
with Eno's effects and the airy acoustic of the building - plus subtle lighting 
and fan-vaulting a go-go - created a powerful, indeed unforgettable, 
impression."
Thanks to arnold113 for 
sharing the lossless version of this FM radio broadcast on the 
internet.
Arnold113 also noted the 
following: "Thanks to Chris Boyes, who was so kind to send me a CDR copy of his 
recording of this very concert. Please notice that I patched together Track 6 
and 7 (Disc 1) which were performed that way morphing into each other. I didn't 
like the way the two tracks were rudely chopped up by the BBC. The Eno comment 
about The Airman I put AFTER the very song, I hope you will prefer this as well. 
One track was not broadcast - O Bone Jesu, performed by the Bath Camarata (by 
James MacMillan), performed before August 1914."

Thanks also to fastone 
for the artwork. 
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high 
quality, stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, 
this recording has never been officially released.
Note: Kindly be patient 
when taking the songs. Please email us at mybigo@bigozine. com if you encounter 
problems downloading the tracks.


  
  
      
    
      Disc I 
      
  
    Track 
      101
    Introduction with Brian Eno interview 
      (4.5MB)
  
    Track 
      102
    The Bath 
      Camarata - Ne irascaris (by William Byrd) (14.5MB) 
  
    Track 
      103
    Introduction with Brian Eno 
      interview (2.1MB) 
  
    Track 
      104
    Joanna 
      MacGregor and Brian Eno - Forlorn Hope Fancy, Melancholy Galliard (by Hohn 
      Dowland) (12.6MB) 
  
    Track 
    105
    Introduction 
      (937k) 
  
    Track 
      106
    The Bath 
      Camerata - The Beatitudes (by Arvo Part) / Brian Eno, Joanna MacGregor and 
      The Bath Camerata - The Airman (lyrics by Rick Holland) 
      (18.0MB) 
  
    Track 
      107
    Eno 
      comments on The Airman (1.3MB) 
  
    Track 
    108
    The Bath 
      Camerata - Listen To The Lambs (by the Golden Gate Quartet) 
      (8.0MB) 
  
     
    
      Disc 
      II 
      
  
    Track 201 
      
    Joanna 
      MacGregor and Brian Eno - Lachrrymae, A Piece Without Title (by Hohn 
      Dowland) (13.6MB) 
  
    Track 
      202
    
      Brian Eno, 
      Joanna MacGregor and The Bath Cammerata - Music For Airports 1/2 (by Brian 
      Eno) 
      (14.2MB) 
  
    Track 
      203
    Introduction (816k) 
  
    Track 
      204
    Joanna 
      MacGregor - Incarnation II (by Somei Satoh) (7.8MB) 
  
    Track 
    205
    Brian Eno and Joanna MacGregor - Music 
      For Airports 2/2 (by Brian Eno) 
      (9.5MB) 
  
    Track 
    206
    Introduction (1.1MB) 
  
    Track 
      207
    Introduction by Brian Eno (1.6MB) 
  
    Track 
      208
    Brian 
      Eno, Joanna MacGregor and The Bath Camerata - August 1914 (lyrics by Isaac 
      Rosenberg) (5.2MB) 
  
    Track 
      209
    The Bath 
      Camerata - Spem in Alium (by Thomas Tallis) (13.9MB) 

Lineup:
Brian Eno
Joanna MacGregor
Bath Camerata
Organ - Peter King
Nigel Perrin 
(Director)
William 
Byrd: Ne Irascaris