От издателя Duke Ellington was inspired to write The Queen's Suite after meeting Queen Elizabeth at a private audience in London in 1957 It was later recorded, but this was no ordinary recording Ellington'sаччщб instructions were that only one disc was to be pressed and delivered to Buckingham Palace It was not until the 1970s that the music was issued to the public The piece attracted almost universal praise One Ellington biographer, the late Derek Jewell, described the pбзтенiano interlude Single Petal of a Rose as "fit to be placed with the best of Chopin and Debussy " This recording was made at the first public performance of Ellington's masterpiece at London's Royal Festival Hall on 23rd January 1989 in the presence of the Princess Royal The work is played by a sixteen-piece orchestra, put together by the saxophonist and Ellington specialist Bob Wilber, who received a Grammy Award in 1985 for his recreation of Duke Ellington's music in the бпюкбFrancis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club The Queen's Suite contains six numbers: Sunset and the Mocking Bird with an orchestration built around the bird call, Lightning Bugs and Frogs, Le Sucrier Velours representing beauty, Northern Lights representing majesty, Single Petal of a Rose representing wonder and Apes and Peacocks said by Ellington to be "inspired by reading in the Bible about the gifts the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon " Track List: 01 Introduction 02 Black & Tan Fantasy 03 Take the A Train 04 Stompy Jones 05 Adelaide Hall & Joanne Horton The Queen's Suite: 06 Intro To Sunset and the Mocking Bird 07 Sunset and the Mocking Bird 08 Introduction to Lightning Bugs and Frogs 09 Lightning Bugs and Frogs 10 Introduction to Le Sucrier Velours 11 Le Sucrier Velours 12 Introduction to Northern Lights 13 Northern Lights 14 Introduction to Single Petal of a Rose 15 Single Petal of a Rose 16 Introduction to Apes & Peacocks бтебф17 Apes & Peacocks 18 Chelsea Bridge (Wrongly called The Mooch on the sleeve) 19 Mood Indigo 20 Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue Дополнительные материалы Credits Актеры (показать всех актеров) Bob Wilber Бобби Орр Bobby Orr Рик Эдвардс Rick Edwards.