Jethro Tull – Minstrel In The Gallery – 40th Anniversary La Grande Edition (1975/2015) {2x DVD ISO + FLAC 24bit/96kHz}

Artist: Jethro Tull
Title: Minstrel In The Gallery – 40th Anniversary La Grande Édition
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Hard Rock
Label: © Chrysalis Records
Release Date: 1975/2015
Recorded: April 1975 in the Masion Rouge Mobile, Europe
Quality: DVD V/A
Duration: ~
Video: MPEG-2 NTSC / 5125 Kbps / 720*480p / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / Main@Main
Audio: DTS 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 48 kHz / 448 Kbps / 16-bit
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit

The 40th Anniversary edition of Jethro Tull’s Minstrel In The Gallery. The album has been expanded to include the b-side Summerday Sands, several studio outtakes, and alternate session material recorded for a BBC broadcast. The second disc features a live recording of Jethro Tull performing at the Olympia in Paris on July 5, 1975, a few months prior to the release of Minstrel In The Gallery. During the show, the band played songs from several of its albums, including War Child and Aqualung, as well as an early performance of Minstrel In The Gallery. It was mixed to 5.1 & stereo by by King Crimson guitarist Jakko Jakszyk.
Highlights from the set include:
* Original album plus seven bonus tracks (six previously unreleased), two mixed to 5.1 surround, and all to stereo by Steven Wilson
* Flat transfers of the original LP mix at 96/24 plus additional track Summerday Sands
* Flat transfer of the original quad mix of the LP plus additional track Summerday Sands
* An eight and a half minute film of the band performing Minstrel In The Gallery in Paris from 1975

Minstrel in the Gallery was Tull’s most artistically successful and elaborately produced album since Thick as a Brick and harkened back to that album with the inclusion of a 17-minute extended piece (“Baker Street Muse”). Although English folk elements abound, this is really a hard rock showcase on a par with — and perhaps even more aggressive than — anything on Aqualung. The title track is a superb showcase for the group, freely mixing folk melodies, lilting flute passages, and archaic, pre-Elizabethan feel, and the fiercest electric rock in the group’s history — parts of it do recall phrases from A Passion Play, but all of it is more successful than anything on War Child. Martin Barre’s attack on the guitar is as ferocious as anything in the band’s history, and John Evan’s organ matches him amp for amp, while Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond hold things together in a furious performance. Anderson’s flair for drama and melody come to the fore in “Cold Wind to Valhalla,” and “Requiem” is the loveliest acoustic number in Tull’s repertory, featuring nothing but Anderson’s singing and acoustic guitar, Hammond-Hammond’s bass, and a small string orchestra backing them. “Nothing at All” isn’t far behind for sheer, unabashed beauty, but “Black Satin Dancer” is a little too cacophonous for its own good. “Baker Street Muse” recalls Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play, not only in its structure but a few passages; at slightly under 17 minutes, it’s a tad more manageable than either of its conceptual predecessors, and it has all of their virtues, freely overlapping hard rock and folk material, classical arrangements (some of the most tasteful string playing on a Tull recording), surprising tempo shifts, and complex stream-of-consciousness lyrics (some of which clearly veer into self-parody) into a compelling whole. -Bruce Eder, AllMusic

Tracklist:

DVD 1 (Audio): 5.1 DTS Surround / AC3 Dolby Digital Surround / 96/24 LPCM Stereo
A New Steven Wilson Remix
1-1 Minstrel In The Gallery
1-2 Cold Wind To Valhalla
1-3 Black Satin Dancer
1-4 Requiem
1-5 One White Duck / 0¹⁰ = Nothing At All
1-6 Baker St. Muse
1-7 Pig-Me And The Whore
1-8 Nice Little Tune
1-9 Crash-Barrier Waltzer
1-10 Mother England Reverie
1-11 Grace
1-12 Summerday Sands
1-13 Requiem (Early Version)
Five Additional Tracks Remixed To 96/24 LPCM Stereo
1-14 One White Duck (Take 5)
1-15 Grace (Take 2)
1-16 Minstrel In The Gallery (‘BBC’ Version)
1-17 Cold Wind To Valhalla (‘BBC’ Version)
1-18 Aqualung (‘BBC’ Version)
96/24 LPCM Stereo Flat Transfer From Original 1975 LP
1-19 Minstrel In The Gallery
1-20 Cold Wind To Valhalla
1-21 Black Satin Dancer
1-22 Requiem
1-23 One White Duck / 0¹º = Nothing At All
1-24 Baker St Muse
1-25 Pig-Me And The Whore
1-26 Nice Little Tune
1-27 Crash-Barrier Waltzer
1-28 Mother England Reverie
1-29 Grace
1-30 Summerday Sands
5.1 (4.0) DTS Surround / AC3 Dolby Digital Surround Flat Transfer Of Original 1975 Quad LP
1-31 Minstrel In The Gallery
1-32 Cold Wind To Valhalla
1-33 Black Satin Dancer
1-34 Requiem
1-35 One White Duck / 0¹º = Nothing At All
1-36 Baker St Muse
1-37 Pig-Me And The Whore
1-38 Nice Little Tune
1-39 Crash-Barrier Waltzer
1-40 Mother England Reverie
1-41 Grace
1-42 Summerday Sands

DVD 2 (Audio & Video): Live At The Palais Des Sports, Paris 5th July 1975
5.1 DTS Surround / AC3 Dolby Digital Surround / 96/24 LPCM Stereo
A Jakko Jakszyk Mix
2-1 Introduction (The Beach Part II)
2-2 Wind Up
2-3 Critique Oblique
2-4 Wond’ring Aloud
2-5 My God
2-5a God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
2-5b Bourée
2-5c Quartet
2-5d Living In The Past
2-5e My God (Reprise)
2-6 Cross-Eyed Mary
2-7 Minstrel In The Gallery
2-8 Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
2-9 Bungle In The Jungle
2-10 Aqualung
2-11 Guitar Improvisation
2-12 Back-door Angels
2-13 Locomotive Breath (With Improvisation)
2-13a Hard Headed English General
2-13b Back-door Angels (Reprise)
2-14 The Minstrel In The Gallery Promo Clip From Palais Des Sports, Paris 6th July 1975

Personnel:
Ian Anderson – flute, acoustic guitar, vocals
Martin Barre – electric guitars
John Evan – piano and organ
Jeffrey Hammond – bass guitar and string bass
Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion
Additional:
David Palmer – orchestral arrangements and conduction
Rita Eddowes, Elizabeth Edwards, Patrick Halling and Bridget Procter – violins
Katharine Tullborn – cello

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