John Tams was a member of the Albion Band, and also its offshoot Home Service, but as well as that he was very much involved in theatre, with Home Service first coming together to soundtrack Bill Bryden's National Theatre productions in the 1980's. In 1982 he was asked to supply the music to Bryden's adaptation of 'Don Quixote', starting Paul Schofield, and even managed to blag a role as "leading galley slave" in the production. In 1990 he was interviewed on BBC radio about the play, and this programme included many snippets of music, and geofmcm has edited these to remove vocal over-talking, and then faded them in and out, as well as repeating sections to extend the pieces to listenable lengths. Finally he has remixed the original mono recording into stereo by splitting out the stems, and then EQ'd the whole thing, while I've tidied up a couple of endings, and re-named the six untitled instrumentals after chapter headings from the book. As there never was a soundtrack released for this play, this is a unique version from geofmcm, so thanks for this.
Track listing
01 Don Quixote De La Mancha
01 The Windmills
01 Don Quixote And The Goatherds
01 Mambrino's Helmet
05 Senor
06 Spanish Guitar
97 Soldat
08 Old Man's Song
09 Pride
10 The Enchanted Bark
11 Life Of A Man
12 Epilogue
Interesting. Thanks
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