''Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull'' is a live album and

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by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, featuring the

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, conducted by John O'Hara. The DVD was recorded at the Rosengarten in

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on 8 December 2004. The concert was part of a series of the same name. Anderson, O'Hara, and the orchestra toured Europe and the United States throughout 2004 and 2006.

Track listing

:Note: track layout and timings for the double CD. The DVD contains the same songs in the same order, however the durations vary slightly.

Disc one

# "Eurology" ( Instrumental) – 3:30 # "Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song)" – 5:42 # "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" – 4:03 # "Up the Pool" – 3:22 # "We Five Kings" (Instrumental) – 3:32 # "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:34 # "In the Grip of Stronger Stuff" (Instrumental) – 3:02 # "Wond'ring Aloud" – 2:11 # " Griminelli's Lament" (Instrumental) – 3:10 # "Cheap Day Return" – 1:27 # "Mother Goose" – 5:46 # " Bourée" (Instrumental) (J. S. Bach arr. Jethro Tull)" – 5:17 # "Boris Dancing" (Instrumental) – 3:31 # " Living in the Past" – 4:48

Disc two

# "Pavane" (Instrumental) – 4:37 # " Aqualung" – 10:24 # "

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" (Instrumental) – 4:58 # "My God" – 8:52 # "

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" – 14:04 # "

Locomotive Breath "Locomotive Breath" is a song by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 album, '' Aqualung''. Written as a comment on population growth, "Locomotive Breath" was meant to replicate the chugging rhythm of a train. In addition to ...

" – 6:42

DVD only

* Interview Ian Anderson - 48:00 * Interview Fritz Rau - 7:00 * Interview participants - 9:00

Credits

* Ian Anderson -

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Florian Opahle Florian Opahle (born 1983) is a German guitarist, best known for his work with progressive rock musician Ian Anderson and later his band, Jethro Tull. He played with Anderson from 2003 to 2019 and with a reformed Jethro Tull from 2017 to 201 ...

- acoustic and

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David Goodier David Goodier (born 1954) is an English musician. He has been the bassist for the rock band Jethro Tull from 2007 until the band went on a hiatus in 2012, and again from 2017 when Ian Anderson started to tour again using the Jethro Tull name, ...

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* John O'Hara -

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* James Duncan -

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: Conducted by John O'Hara

Solo

* Kathrin Troester -

* Astrid Cienia -

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* Sibylle Wähnert -

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Notes

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CD and

released October 4, 2005

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