Music From Ben Hur Live

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2009-09-17

Label: Kryptone Records

Stewart Copeland composed the music for the musical Ben Hur Live (a Franz Abraham Production), which toured Europe from September until December 2009. This CD was released as promotional-only. It was given away to those who would buy a costly ticket (from £ 35 to £ 115) and come to see the show.

On disc and artwork: "All Music and Compositions Copyright 2009 Stewart Copeland/ Palmyra Music PRS/ BMI, in Cooperation with ART CONCERTS - Master Recordings 2009 Stewart Copeland/ Kryptone Records".

Ben Hur Live Music:
Engineered and Mixed by Jeff Seitz
Music Conformed and Edited by Ryan Beveridge
Executive Music Producer: Derek Power

Orchestral Score:
Orchestral Score Performed by The Slovak National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Allan Wilson
Orchestral Engineer: Peter Fuchs
Orchestra Contractor: Pail Talkington
Orchestrations by: Peter Golub, Penka Kouneva, Philip Klein
Music Prep: Junko Kamura, David Holden

Middle Eastern Recordings:
Supervised by Mercan Dede
Engineer: Pieter Snapper
Coordinators: Arkin Ilicali, Tolga Akarcali
Quanun: Hasan Sezer Yilmaz
Ney: Burak Malcok
Percussion: Oray Yay
Kemane: Cafer Nazlibas
Ozgur Arkun: Viola (with the Mercan Dede Gypsy String Orchestra)

Duesseldorf Recording and Mastering at Skyline Tonfabrik Studios:
Peter Krick and Kai Blankenberg
Assistance: Julian Scherler
Mastering: Jens Dreesen

'Pirates'
Guitars: Thomas Blug
Roman Percussion and Ancient Sounds by Elbtonal Percussion

'Esther's Song'
Music by Stewart Copeland, original English lyric by Shaun McKenna;
performed by Lili Gesler

'Funeral Song'
Performed by Woroud Antabil
(traditional, arranged by Stewart Copeland)

'Chariots'
Guitars: Artin Karamian
Percussionists: Stewart Copeland, Domenic Breaux

Though hard to verify, it is possible the beginning of Tile Incident was written by Peter J Robinson, who definitely wrote at least 1 piece of the score according to Stewart in an interview that used to be available on YouTube.

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