The Lindsay Kemp Company - The Big Parade (Remastered) (1988/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

This project was carried out in London in July 1988 at the Artaud Theater of the Institute of French Culture. The recordings were made by Giulio Cesare Ricci assisted by Bé Yamamura, whom I would also like to thank on behalf of Carlos for his commitment at all times, technically, humanly and for the valuable advice without which we would not have reached this result. All sessions were recorded live with 4 Neumann tube microphones, 2 main M-49 and 2 ambience M-47. The signal without manipulation passes simultaneously on a Studer J-37 tube four-track and a PCM digital 1630 2-track; only occasionally did we use a Studer 2-track tube model C-37 machine. Even when it came to working on prerecorded material we used the same microphone configuration equalizing the sound of the tape, which through Goldmund speakers reproduced the wind or the voices of angels, with the musicians playing live. I thank everyone at the French Cultural Institute and all the musicians who took part in the recordings, especially JohnKnight for his unsurpassed work.

The Lindsay Kemp Company
Carlos Miranda, piano, organ, accordion
Enid Hughes, flute, piccolo
Julia Munn, clarinet, bass clarinet
David White, saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
John Knight, violin 1 solo
Perry Mason, violin 2
Andrew Price, violin 3
Basil Smart, violin 4
George Robertson, viola 1
Morris Bosworth, viola 2
Anthony Pleeth, cello 1 solo
Robin Firman, cello 2
Quentin Williams, cello 3
Paul Cullington, bass
David Watkins, harp
John O’hara, percussion
Greg Knowles, percussion
Les Thather, banjo, mandoline
Patrick Harrild, tuba
David Hanock, trumpet, cornet
Nick Carr, conductor
The incredible Orlando
Timothy Bond, Wurlitzer organ solo
Blue Lu, The slap, harmonica solo

Tracklist
01. Introduction, the director
02. The latin lover tango
03. Grand waltz and bacchanalia
04. Screen test and film scene
05. Gramophone medley: fox-trot one step
06. Little Mary, the country girl
07. Cesare, the somnambulist &Pirata Joe, the swashbuckling hero
08. Death of a hero-end of act I
09. Story of a tragic love affair
10. I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier – “The parade”
11. The big War epic (The coming of sound)
12. Finale (played on an original Wurlitzer organ built 1925)