Usually when a veteran artist goes out on tour to promote a new album, she will fill her set with reliable favorites while working in a handful of numbers from her latest effort. But for the concert captured in this video, performed in a church in London in February 2008, the month that her album Watershed was released, k.d. lang, accompanied by her backup band and the BBC Concert Orchestra, turns the tables on that scenario, performing the album in its entirety (if not in the sequence heard on the disc), while working in nine other selections from earlier in her career, including cover tunes from her previous release, 2004's Hymns of the 49th Parallel (Neil Young's "Helpless," Jane Siberry's "The Valley," Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"); her biggest hit, "Constant Craving"; and even a song from her major-label debut, 1987's Angel with a Lariat ("Paydirt"). Playing before a small audience that appears to take up less space than the musicians, lang comfortably performs her first set of original material in eight years and demonstrates that, in its sophisticated music retaining traces of country and in its poetic lyrics, it is of a piece with her most popular adult contemporary repertoire. Previous videos have been given over to that earlier music, and the new songs, sung with lang's usual richness and fervor, stand up to them well. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Live in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra DVD
02/03/2009 | Image Entertainment
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Blu-Ray Disc
$21.99LIVE WITH BBC ORCHESTRA / (WS DTS)
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DVD
$15.99LIVE WITH BBC ORCHESTRA / (WS)
All Music Guide Review
Live in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra DVD Track Listing
Credits of Live in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra DVD
- Nick Steinhardt
- Art Direction, Design
- Steve Robson
- Camera Operator
- Gary Stokes
- Engineer
- Ian Walker
- Bass, Vocals
- Nigel Pinkett
- Cello
- Allan Wells
- Camera Operator
- Jeri Heiden
- Art Direction, Design, Cover Photo
- Doug Redler
- Stage Manager
- Robert Ziegler
- Conductor
- Josephine Abbott
- Cello
- Nick Wickham
- Director
- Jeremy Morris
- Violin
- Robin del Mar
- Viola
- Nigel Goodwin
- Viola
- Brett Turnbull
- Camera Operator
- Charles Mutter
- Violin
- Caroline Bishop
- Violin
- Grecco Buratto
- Guitar, Vocals
- Daniel Clarke
- Keyboards, Vocals
- Nick Wheeler
- Camera Operator
- Martin Bradshaw
- Cello
- Ngoc Hoàng
- Project Coordinator
- Beatrix Lovejoy
- Violin
- Joshua Grange
- Banjo, Vocals, Guitar
- Matthew Lee
- Cello, Viola
- Dave Emery
- Camera Operator
- Rebecca Turner
- Violin
- Nigel Edwards
- Violin
- Michael Howson
- Violin
- Helen Knief
- Viola
- Jacqueline Lloyd
- Viola
- Judith Webberley
- Viola
- Mike Duncan
- Lighting Director
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Orchestra
- Helen Cooper
- Violin
- Danny Frankel
- Percussion, Drums
- k.d. lang
- Guitar (Acoustic), Banjo, Vocals
















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