Under a Violet Moon
1999 studio album by Blackmore's Night
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Under a Violet Moon is the second studio album by the group Blackmore's Night , released May 25, 1999. Under a Violet Moon won the New Age Voice award for the best vocal album of the year.[ 2]
Track listing
Title Writer(s) 1. "Under a Violet Moon" Ritchie Blackmore , Candice Night 4:23 2. "Castles and Dreams" Blackmore, Night 3:33 3. "Past Time with Good Company " trad. by King Henry VIII 3:24 4. "Morning Star" Blackmore, Night 4:41 5. "Avalon" trad. 3:03 6. "Possum Goes to Prague" (Instrumental) Blackmore 1:13 7. "Wind in the Willows" (feat. John Ford ) Alan Bell 4:12 8. "Gone with the Wind" (Includes "Polyushko-polye " by Lev Knipper , a popular Russian song of mid-1930s.) Blackmore, Knipper, Night 5:24 9. "Beyond the Sunset" (Instrumental) Blackmore 3:45 10. "March the Heroes Home" trad. by Michael Praetorius , Blackmore, Night 4:39 11. "Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)" trad. 5:23 12. "Catherine Howard 's Fate" Blackmore, Night 2:34 13. "Fool's Gold" Blackmore, Night 3:32 14. "Durch den Wald zum Bach Haus" (Instrumental) Blackmore 2:31 15. "Now and Then" (including the Prelude in C by J.S. Bach ) Night 3:11 16. "Self Portrait" (Rainbow cover) Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio 3:19
Personnel
Blackmore's Night
Guest musicians
John Ford – vocals, bass on #07, background vocals on #01 & 10
Miri Ben-Ari – violin on #04 & 11
Peter Rooth – bass on #01 & 16; drum programming on #07 & 08
Mick Cervino - additional bass on #04
Kevin Dunne – drums
Mike Goldberg - military drum on #03
Adam Forgione - additional keyboards on #04
Jens Johansson – keyboards on #01, 04, 07 & 15
Jeff Glixman, Roy McDonald - additional keyboards
Jason Chapman - trumpet and flugelhorn on #08
Thomas Roth - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10
Albert Danneman - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10
Albrecht Schmidt-Reinthaler - harpsichord on #10
Jost Pogrzeba - percussion on #10
Christof Heus - trumpet on #10
Adolf Lehnberger - trombone on #10
Gell Spitz - trumpet on #10
Rolf Spitz - trombone on #10
Mark Pender - trumpet
Mr. & Mrs. Heller - hurdy-gurdy
Scott Hazell, Sue Goehringer, John Gould, Trish - backing vocals
Charts
Packaging
The albums' cover image is inspired by the German old town street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
References
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