Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio

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Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Live album by Paul McCartney

Publication
(s)

0October 7, 1991 ( UK ) ,
October 22, 1991 ( US )

Label (s) EMI Classics

Format (s)

LP (Europe), MC , CD , download

Genre (s)

Classical music

Title (number)

8th

running time

  • 97 min 28 s (Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio)
  • 77 min 1 s (Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio)
occupation
  • Ian Tracey - choirmaster
  • Malcolm Stewart - concertmaster
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir - Choir
  • Liverpool Cathedral Choiristers - Choir
  • Jeremy Budd - vocals
  • as well as various musicians
  • Sound engineers : Jon Timperley and Eddie Klein, Peter Mew, Martin Astle and Tom Leader

production

John Fraser

Studio (s)

Liverpool Cathedral

chronology
Снова в СССР
(1991) 		Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio Off the Ground
(1993)

Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio is the first classical album by Paul McCartney . At the same time, including the Wings albums, the live albums and compilation albums, it is Paul McCartney's 23rd album after the Beatles split up . It was released on October 7, 1991 in the UK and October 22, 1991 in the US.

The compilation album Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio is not an independent new album by Paul McCartney and mainly contains partially shortened songs from the album Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio . It was released in the UK a year later on October 5, 1992. It did not appear in the United States.

Emergence

In the introduction to the CD booklet, Paul McCartney describes how the Liverpool Oratorio came about :

“After all these years of my career, I find it very exciting that the Royal Liverpool Orchestra asked me to co-write something with Carl Davis for their memorial service. This is the best opportunity for me to expand my previous flirtations with orchestra and choir into a real work. "

- Paul McCartney
Liverpool Cathedral

Work on the oratorio began in 1988 and should be finished in 1991 for the 150th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . Paul McCartney's composition work took place with Carl Davis , who brought the necessary experience to the project through his classical musical training and commissioned work for the composition of film scores and soundtracks. The story of the oratorio is based in part on Paul McCartney's youth in Liverpool, starting in 1942.

The rehearsals before the actual performance took place on three days from March 25 to 27, 1991. The preparatory work was documented by the BBC in the film Ghost of the Past . The film's directors are Geoff Wonfor and Andy Matthews.

The premiere of Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio took place on 28 June 1991 in Liverpool Cathedral instead. The premiere and performance the following day, attended by Paul McCartney and Carl Davis, were used for the CD and film recordings. Thus, Paul McCartney's first classic work is a live album.

Cover design

The cover designed the agency DEWYNTERS. The CD is accompanied by a 40-page illustrated booklet that includes the lyrics, an introduction by Paul McCartney and a description of the plot.

Track list

CD 1

Was

  1. Andante - 2:02
  2. Non Nobis Solum - 2:35
  3. The Air Raid Siren Slices Through ...
  1. Oh Will It All End Here? - 1:36
  2. Mother and Father Holding Their Child - 1:16

School

  2. We're Here in School Today to Get a Perfect Education - 2:10
  3. Walk in Single File Out of the Classroom - 1:02
  4. Settle Down - 0:40
  5. Kept in Confusion - 2:35
  6. I'll Always Be Here - 1:35
  7. Boys, This Is Your Teacher - 1:23
  8. Tres Conejos - 1:50
  9. Not for Ourselves - 0:55

Crypt

  2. And So It Was That I Had Grown - 0:48
  3. Dance - 1:44
  4. I Used to Come Here When This Place Was a Crypt - 1:58
  5. Here Now - 0:46
  6. I'll Always Be Here - 2:24
  7. Now's the Time to Tell Him - 2:21

Father

  2. Andante Lamentoso - 2:59
  3. O Father, You Have Given… - 1:05
  4. Ah - 1:13
  5. Hey, wait a minute - 1:44
  6. Father, Father, Father - 4:12

CD 2

Wedding

  1. Andante Amoroso - I Know I Should Be Glad of This - 5:42
  2. Father, Hear Our Humble Voices - 1:13
  3. Hosanna, Hosanna - 1:40

Work

  2. Allegro Energico - 1:20
  3. Working Women at the Top - 2:52
  4. Violin Solo - 5:05
  5. Did I Sign the Letter ... - 1:34
  6. Tempo I - 0:30
  7. When You Ask a Working Man - 1:34
  8. Let's Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry - 2:04

Crises

  2. Allegro Molto - 0:54
  3. The World You're Coming In - 2:28
  4. Tempo I - 0:45
  5. Where's My Dinner? - 2:40
  6. Let's Not Argue - 0:31
  7. I'm Not a Slave - 0:52
  8. Right! That's it! - 0:49
  9. Stop. Wait. - 2:03
  10. Do You Know Who You Are ... (Nurse) - 3:36
  11. Ghosts of the Past Left Behind (Nurse, Shanty, Mary Dee) - 3:08
  12. Do We Live in a World ... - 3:18

Peace

  2. And So It Was That You Were Born (Shanty) - 1:22
  3. God Is Good - 1:26
  4. What People Want Is a Family Life (Preacher) - 2:17
  5. Dad's in the Garden (Nurse, Mary Dee, Preacher, Shanty) - 3:13
  6. So on and on the Story Goes (Mary Dee, Shanty) - 1:06

CD 3 - Japanese bonus 3 ″ CD

Interview - 6:02

Single releases

The World You're Coming Into

The 7 ″ vinyl single The World You're Coming Into / Tres Conejos was released in Great Britain on September 30, 1991 , and the 5 ″ CD single with the songs Introduction - Allegro Molto / The World You're Coming Into was released / Tres Conejos released.

Save the Child

The second single was on November 12, 1991 in the USA as a 5 ″ CD single and on November 25, 1991 in Great Britain as a 7 ″ vinyl single and 5 ″ CD single, the songs Save the Child / The Drinking Song released. On December 2, 1991, the 5 ″ CD single Save the Child / The Drinking Song / The World You're Coming Into was released in Great Britain .

Chart placements

year album Chart placements annotation
DE AT CH UK US
1991 Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio - - - 36 177
1992 Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio nv nv nv - nv
year Single release Chart placements annotation
DE AT CH UK US
1991 The World You're Coming Into
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio 		nv nv nv - nv
1991 Save the Child
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio 		nv nv nv - -

Video and promotional publications

In Europe, a VHS videocassette entitled Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio was released in November 1991 , showing the oratorio consisting of performances on June 28 and 29, 1991. The double DVD , which was released in November 2004, contains two bonus films: The documentary Ghosts of the Past: The Making of Liverpool Oratorio and Echoes with the song In Liverpool , which is not yet available on CD , which is one of Paul McCartney sung title.

Re-releases

  • The album has not yet been remastered.
  • In May 2007 the album was released in download format.

literature

  • Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 (pp. 344-345).

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