Solstice Live
Paul Winter
Released 1993
Run Time: 66 minutes
Produced by: Paul Winter and Les Kahn
©℗1993 Earth Music Productions, LLC
The Paul Winter Consort celebrates the Winter Solstice with a musical journey through the longest night of the year, recorded live in the stunning acoustics of the world’s largest Gothic cathedral, New York’s St. John the Divine. Solstice Live! features the Paul Winter Consort and a community of 20 guests, including the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble from Russia, Andes Manta from Ecuador, Galician bagpiper Nando Casals, Celtic vocalist Nóirín Ní Riain, and gospel singer Kecia Lewis-Evans.
Solstice Live! captures the Paul Winter Consort’s legendary annual Winter Solstice Celebration, in the world’s largest Gothic cathedral, New York’s St. John the Divine. A world music festival, with twenty guest artists from around the world, this album embodies the adventure and drama of this musical journey through the longest night of the year.
Performers
Paul Winter | soprano sax
Eugene Friese | cello
Rhonda Larson | flute
Paul Halley | keys
Glen Velez | percussion
Jamey Haddad | drums, percussion
Gordon Gottlieb | timpani, Brazilian surdos, percussion
Mark Perchanok | heckelphone
Dorothy Papadakos | oran
Russ Landau | bass
Eliot Wadopian | acoustic bass
Nóirín Ní Riain | voice
Kecia Lewis-Evans | voice
Cafe | congas, percussion
Ted Moore | drums
Nando Casals | gaeta
Dimitry Donders | French hunting horn
Scott Sloan | sun gong
Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Dmitri Pokrovsky, Maria Nefedova, Alexander Danilov, Elena Sidorenko, Sergei Zhirkov, Tamara Smyslova, Arthur Partosh, Anna Konukhova, Andrei Kotov, Nini Savistkaya, Dmitri Fokin, Vladimir Teplov, Irina Ponomaryova, Sergei Grigoriev
Andes Manta: Wilson Lopez, Luis Lopez, Bolivar Lopez, Carlos Amaz – panpipes, drums, strings
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