NEWS : Blackmore’s Night “The Beginning” Detailed

“Blackmore’s Night – The Beginning” is a documentation about the early period of a musical legend. In the lavish velvet-box you will find the first two BLACKMORE’S NIGHT albums “Shadow Of The Moon” and “Under A Violet Moon” as well as rare video footage of their early tours “Live In Germany 1997-1998” and “Under A Violet Moon – Castle Tour 2000”. Available for the first time on DVD and only in the “The Beginning” box. The footage from various concerts from the “Shadow Of The Moon” and “Under A Violet Moon” tours is enriched by interviews with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night, as well as backstage footage, rehearsal footage and medieval fight shows. “We live the music,” says Ritchie Blackmore, confirming the impression that this documentation gives every second — BLACKMORE’S NIGHT is authentic. The enthusiasm of the musicians captivates the audience and takes them along on a journey through the past. Some of the DVD tracks go from the living room rehearsals to the stage and are impressive proof that the compositions function wonderfully as intimate acoustic versions, as well as with the full band on the big stage. BLACKMORE’S NIGHT “The Beginning” is a very special release, not only for fans and collectors, for nostalgic or the medieval curious, but for any lover of beautiful timeless music. This extraordinary box provides the owner not only two DVDs with a delightful, interesting and entertaining performances plus two original studio albums of fantastic music, but rather with it is a ticket out of the dreary day to day life, a way to leave everything behind, to relax the soul for a few hours.

Content: DVD 1: “Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon – Live In Germany 1997-1998”

DVD 2: “Blackmore’s Night – Under A Violet Moon Castle Tour 2000”

CD1: “Shadow Of The Moon” album

CD2: “Under A Violet Moon” album

In stores: UK: December 10, 2012 Rest Of Europe: December 7, 2012 USA: November 20, 2012

DVD 1: “Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon – Live In Germany 1997-1998” 

1. Shadow Of The Moon
2. The Clock Ticks On Play
3. Minstrel Play
4. Minstrel Hall
5. St. Theresa
6. Under A Violet Moon
7.  Magical World
8. No Second Chance
9. 16th Century
10. Greensleeves
11. Renaissance Faire
12. Writing On The Wall
13. Mond
14. Tanz
15. Be Mine Tonight
16. Memmingen
17. Black Night
18. Man On The Silver Mountain
19. Still I‘m Sad Maybe Next Time

 DVD 2: “Blackmore’s Night – Under A Violet Moon Castle Tour 2000”

1.  Written In The Stars
2. Morning Star
3. Renaissance
4. Faire Fires At Midnight (Midnight Acoustic Performance)
5. Possum Goes To Prague
6. Under A Violet Moon
7. Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)
8. Past Time With Good Company
9. Wind In The Willows
10. March
11. The Heroes Home
12. Gone With The Wind
13. Fires At Midnight
14. Now And Then Durch Den Wald Zum Bach Haus

CD1: “Shadow Of The Moon” album

1. Shadow Of The Moon
2. The Clock Ticks On Be Mine
3. Tonight
4. Play Minstrel Play
5. Ocean Gypsy
6. Minstrel Hall
7. Magical World
8. Writing On The Wall
9. Renaissance Faire
10. Memmingen
11. No Second Chance
12. Mond Tanz
13. Spirit Of The Sea
14. Greensleeves
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Possum‘s Last Dance

CD2: “Under A Violet Moon” album

1. Under A Violet Moon
2. Castles And Dreams
3. Past Time With Good Company
4. Morning Star
5. Avalon
6. Possum Goes To Prague
7. Wind In The Willows
8. Gone With The Wind
9. Beyond The Sunset
10. March
11. The Heroes Home
12. Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)
13. Catherine Howard‘s Fate
14. Fool‘s Gold
15. Durch den Wald Zum Bach Haus
16. Now And Then
17. Self Portrait