Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (An Extended Performance)1973/2

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (An Extended Performance)1973/2014 [2xDVD5 Audio & Video]
Genre: Folk Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Hard Rock, Symphonic Rock
Quality: DVD5
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (16:9) 29.97fps 7024kbps
Audio: AC3 48kHz 6ch 448kbps
Audio2: AC3 48kHz 2ch 192kbps
Audio3: DTS 48kHz 6ch 1 510 Kbps
Size: 3.82Gb+2.54Gb

Alongside Thick As A Brick, 1973 A Passion Play is Jethro Tull's most overtly Progressive and conceptual release, featuring a complex poetic narrative framed by the most adventurous music of the band's career.
A #1 US hit on its release, the album offers dazzling virtuoso instrumental passages, evocative synthesiser sequences, and fuses Folk, Jazz and Rock influences in a strikingly unique, wholly Jethro Tull way.
A Passion Play (An Extended Performance) features new Steven Wilson mixes (stereo and 5.1) of the album, alongside Steven Wilson mixes of the infamous 'Chateau Disaster' recordings that preceded it.
Packaged with an 80 page book detailing the album, the band's 1973 tour and the Chateau recordings, (An Extended Performance) is a glorious way to celebrate a one of a kind release.

Jethro Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from -- and not quite as successful as -- Thick as a Brick. Ian Anderson utilizes reams of biblical (and biblical-sounding) references, interwoven with modern language, as a sort of a rock equivalent to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. As with most progressive rock, the words seem important and profound, but their meaning is anyone's guess ("The ice-cream lady wet her drawers, to see you in the Passion Play..."), with Anderson as a dour but engaging singer/sage (who, at least at one point, seems to take on the role of a fallen angel). It helps to be aware of the framing story, about a newly deceased man called to review his life at the portals of heaven, who realizes that life on Earth is preferable to eternity in paradise. But the music puts it over successfully, a dazzling mix of old English folk and classical material, reshaped in electric rock terms. The band is at its peak form, sustaining the tension and anticipation of this album-length piece across 45 minutes, although the music runs out of inspiration about five minutes before it actually ends. --Bruce Eder

Setlist:
DVD#1 (Audio & Video)
A Passion Play (A new Steven Wilson stereo mix / A flat transfer from the original master)
1. Lifebeats/Prelude
2. The Silver Cord
3. Re-Assuring Tune
4. Memory Bank
5. Best Friends
6. Critique Oblique
7. Forest Dance #1
8. The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
9. Forest Dance #2
10. The Foot Of Our Stairs
11. Overseer Overture.
12. Flight From Lucifer
13. 10.08 to Paddington
14. Magus Perde
15. Epilogue
Video:
- Video clips of The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
- Intro and outro film footage used in the Passion Play tour of 1973

DVD#2 (Audio only)
The Chateau d'Herouville Sessions (A new Steven Wilson stereo mix)
1. The Big Top
2. Scenario
3. Audition
4. Skating Away
5. Sailor
6. No Rehearsal
7. Left Right
8. Solitaire
9. Critique Oblique (Part I)
10. Critique Oblique (Part II)
11. Animelee (1st Dance) [Instrumental]
12. Animelee (2nd Dance) [Instrumental]
13. Law Of The Bungle (Part I)
14. Tiger
15. Law Of The Bungle (Part II)

Personnel:
Ian Anderson - flute, acoustic guitar, saxophones, vocals
Martin Barre - electric guitar
John Evan - piano, organ, synthesisers, vocals
Jeffrey Hammond - bass guitar, narrator on "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles"
Barriemore Barlow - drums, percussion
Additional:
David Palmer - Orchestral arrangements








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