Artist: Colin Towns & Albert Schweitzer
Title: Ein Leben Für Afrika (2 x CD)
Record Label: MONOPOL RECORDS
Catalogue No.: M7164
Year: 2009

Track listing:

CD1

1. Lambaréné (3.16)
2. Prelude Nr 15 - Streichorchester (1.14)
3. Bist Du Bei Mir - Solo Piano (2.33)
4. On The River One Day (2.49)
5. City Special (with NDR Bigband) (3.22)
6. Hidden Consignment (2.15)
7. Prelude Nr 12 - Solo Piano (2.06)
8. We're Going To Miss The Boat (2.44)
9. Where There's Hope (5.52)
10. Hiding Medicines (2.32)
11. The Rest, We Cut Their Throats (2.38)
12. Nobel Prize / Bist Du Bei Mir (3.54)
13. Looking For Schweitzer (3.30)
14. Prelude Nr 15 - Solo Piano (1.01)
15. Reverence For Life (3.15)

Total running time = 43.02

CD2

14 tracks of J S Bach's music played by Albert Schweitzer in 1935 & 1936

Total running time = 60.34

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Personnel

Orchestra: Staatskapelle Halle, using the Abbey Road Mobile Recording Unit
Conductor: Bernd Ruf
Recording Engineer: Toby Wood
Assistant Recording Engineer: Richard Hale
Recording Assistant: John Barrett

Track 12 sung by Olive Simpson

Track 5 recorded in NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, Germany
Conductor: Colin Towns
Recording Engineer: Toby Wood
Assistant Recording Engineer: Richard Hale
Recording Assistant: Rudi Grosser

 

Recording details

Album mixed at Canterbury Studios, Kent, UK
Album produced by Colin Towns
Mixing Engineer: Toby Wood
Mixing Assistant: Erik Jordan

All tracks written by Colin Towns, except: tracks 2, 7 and 14 written by Johann Sebastian Bach; tracks 3 and 12 written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

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