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Nights from the Alhambra

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Released
  
August 21, 2007

Artist
  
Loreena McKennitt

Label
  
Quinlan Road

Recorded
  
September 13-15, 2006

Release date
  
21 August 2007

Genres
  
Folk music, World music

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Nights from the Alhambra (2007)
  
A Midwinter Night's Dream (2008)

Similar
  
Loreena McKennitt albums, Folk music albums

Nights from the Alhambra is a live album and DVD from the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt and is her first live concert DVD. It was recorded in September 2006, live at the Palace of Charles V, in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, and released commercially in September 2007.

Contents

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Track listing

Disk 1
  1. "The Mystic's Dream" (The Mask and Mirror)
  2. "She Moved Through the Fair" (Elemental)
  3. "Stolen Child" (Elemental)
  4. "The Mummer's Dance" (The Book of Secrets)
  5. "Penelope's Song" (An Ancient Muse)
  6. "Marco Polo" (The Book of Secrets)
  7. "The Bonny Swans" (The Mask and Mirror)
  8. "Dante's Prayer" (The Book of Secrets)
  9. "Caravanserai" (An Ancient Muse)
Disk 2
  1. "Bonny Portmore" (The Visit)
  2. "Santiago" (The Mask and Mirror)
  3. "Raglan Road" (An Ancient Muse - unreleased track)
  4. "All Souls Night" (The Visit)
  5. "The Lady of Shalott" (The Visit)
  6. "The Old Ways" (The Visit)
  7. "Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)" (An Ancient Muse)
  8. "Huron `Beltane` Fire Dance" (Parallel Dreams)
  9. "Cymbeline" (The Visit)
  • The DVD track listing is the same except that all the songs are on the same disc. The DVD also includes McKennitt's spoken introductions to songs, which are omitted from the CDs.

    • Personnel

  • Tal Bergman: drums and percussion
  • Panos Dimitrakopoulos: kanoun
  • Nigel Eaton: hurdy-gurdy
  • Steáfán Hannigan: Uilleann pipes, bodhrán, percussion
  • Brian Hughes: band leader, electric and acoustic guitars, oud, Celtic bouzouki
  • Caroline Lavelle: cello
  • Rick Lazar: percussion
  • Hugh Marsh: violin
  • Tim Landers: acoustic and electric bass
  • Loreena McKennitt: vocals, accordion, harp, piano
  • Donald Quan: viola, keyboards, tabla
  • Sokratis Sinopoulos: lyra
  • Haig Yazdjian: oud

    • Songs

    The Mystic’s Dream6:36
    She Moved Through the Fair5:11
    Stolen Child4:17

    References

    Nights from the Alhambra Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA