Artist: Sting Title: Symphonica in Rosso (night 1) Date: 15 october 2010 Type: Audience Tour: Symphonicities Location: Gelredome, Arnhem, Netherlands Rating: A- (rated by taper) Catalog: MVD-079 SOURCE: Church ST-11 Cards - Church pre-amp STC-9000 (high pass filter on) - iRiver H340 (44.1 kHz) - HDD - FLAC Recorded by Symfan ================================= Tracklist Disc 1 01 If I Ever Lose My Faith In You 02 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 03 -introduction 04 An Englishman In New York 05 Roxanne 06 Straight To My Heart 07 When We Dance 08 Russians 09 I Hung My Head 10 Shape Of My Heart 11 Why Should I Cry For You 12 Whenever I Say Your Name 13 Fields Of Gold 14 -introduction Joe Sumner 15 Two Sisters 16 Next To You Disc 2 01 A Thousand Years 02 This Cowboy Song 03 -introduction Carel Kraaijenhoff 04 Moon Over Bourbon Street 05 End Of The Game 06 -introduction Kyteman 07 All Would Envy 08 Mad About You 09 King Of Pain 10 Every Breath You Take 11 Desert Rose 12 She's Too Good For Me 13 Fragile 14 I Was Brought To My Senses Total time: 2:12:21 ========================= TECHNICAL NOTES Recorded live at Gelredome, Arnhem, Netherlands Left side about 30 meters from the stage Date: 15 october 2010. Recorded on iRiver H340 using Rockbox, r18339 build 080824. Recording format: 44.1 Khz WAV Microphones: Church ST-11 Cardiods with STC-9000 preamp, high pass filter on Sound enhancement with Soundforge 7.0 / Adobe 2.0 Sound editing with CD Wave editor and Traders Little Helper Flacs created with FLAC frontend 1.7.1 (level 7) ========================= The Musicians Sting: Vocals, guitar Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Conducted by Steven Mercurio Guests Joe Sumner Carel Kraayenhoff Colin Benders (Kiteman) ========================= PREPARING THE RECORDING I recorded this standing at the left side of the stage. It was not too crowded but people kept on talking during the songs. Also there is some clapping and enthousiastic shouting in between. The dynamics are very good. Tracks were slightly EQ-ed and volume was a bit corrected, but I kept the dynamics in tact. I use no compression. After correction, tracks were split at sector boundaries. Flacs are tagged for convenient playback on compatible systems. ABOUT THE CONCERT Sting has decided to record some of his songs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and he takes this new album out on touring. In the Netherlands there is an annual concert called Symphonica In Rosso with every year another artist. It was instated by dutch singer Marco Borsato. Sting had the honour of appearing two nights on a row. This recording is from the first night. A couple of guests were present, such as his son Joe and two dutch artists. The audience was a bit noisy, there was talking going on all the time. I heard that was everywhere, not only around me. So this recording is what it is: a capture of this night and the ambience as it was. ARTWORK Artwork is included in the Torrent release. DISTRIBUTION Please include FLAC fingerprints when trading. DO NOT TRADE IN LOSSY FORMATS ! DO NOT SELL OR BUY THIS RECORDING ! Please respect the artists work. For more information go to http://www.sting.com Prepared by symfan. october 2010 Info: symfan AT hotmail DOT com