Anybody could tell us the amazing set list of the LSO St. Lukes concerts???.
Thanks!!!!

From Sting.com:

Set List:

Walsingham
Reading - Letter Extract 1 - "Right Honorable: as I have bin most bound unto your honor..."
Flow my tears
The lowest trees have tops
Reading - Letter Extract 2 - "...Then in time passing on Mr. Johnson died..."
The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, His Galliard
Can She Excuse My Wrongs
Reading - Letter Extract 3 - "... And according as I desired ther cam a letter..."
Fine knacks for ladies
Reading - Letter Extract 4 - "...From thenc I went to Landgrave of Hessen..."
Fantasy
Come, heavy sleep
Reading - Letter Extract 5 - "...From thenc I went to Landgrave of Hessen..."
La Rossignol
Come again
Have you seen the bright lily grow
Reading - Letter Extract 6 - "...After my departures I caled to mynde our conference..."
Weep you no more, sad fountains
Clear or cloudy
Reading - Letter Extract 7 - "...men say that the Kinge of Spain is making gret preparation..."
In darkness let me dwell

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Fields Of Gold
Hellhound on my Trail
Message in a Bottle

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Come again (Oct 3)
Fine knacks for ladies (Oct 4)

Anybody can tell me why this song end up at the Lutist list? (its from Robert Johnson's ) 'Hellhound On My Trail'...is it because it have a Blue note and its a classic ...or all has no explanation at all? bUT WHATEVER IT IS,I feel good about Sting saying that he got to keep moving* "fired up to write my own music again. I've immersed myself in this other man's songs for two years, and it's time to dust off my pen." *
Move to Spain man :))))



I got to keep moving, I got to keep moving
Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail
Mmm, blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail
And the day keeps on remindin' me, there's a hellhound on my trail
Hellhound on my trail, hellhound on my trail

If today was Christmas eve, if today was Christmas eve
And tomorrow was Christmas day
If today was Christmas eve and tomorrow was Christmas day
All I would need is my little sweet rider
Just to pass the time away, to pass the time away

You sprinkled hot foot powder, mmm, around my door
All around my door
You sprinkled hot foot powder, all around your daddy's door
It keeps me with ramblin' mind rider
Every old place I go, every old place I go

I can tell the wind is risin', the leaves tremblin' on the tree
Tremblin' on the tree
I can tell the wind is risin', leaves tremblin' on the tree
All I need is my little sweet woman
And to keep my company, hey, hey, hey, hey, my company

Weeeeeeeeeeee!!! OMG I saw Sting, like close-up, when he came out after, omg, i'm still in shock!!! he he!! I didn't go up to him, I froze, rofl, just sort of stood there in awe of him!! :D

The show was so beautiful, omg smallest venue ever, the view from my seat was amazing, on the balcony but so close!! Trudie and Coco were sat below in the VIP bit of course!! Thankyou sooooo much Stoofer, that was amazing, a very unique experience!!! It was all quite serious, nobody was sure when to clap at first, lol! But it was alot of fun too! The whole thing was recorded for BBC Radio 3, to be broadcast on sunday i think!!

Yeah he did a couple of Robert Johnson songs - whoever he is! lol! And he did Fields of Gold and Message, which sounded really good!! :)

Full review to come, but my brain is like mush at the moment, ive not long got back from London! Oh and pics too - a few, but it was very dark, and you werent really allowed to take pictures, lol! I'll post something in the concert review forum later!!

All in all... WOW... basically!! he he!! ;)

WOW sooo cool! :D

Can't wait to read the review!!

I'm really happy for you, LD ;)

yes, we are all happy for you and stoofer, you lucky friends who have the chance to see the MAN playing his lute!

Robert Johnson was John Johnson's son, who was court lutenist at Queen Elisabeth I. In Sting's words:

Have you Seen The Bright Lily Grow? was written by Robert Johnson, the son of that John that Dowland hoped and thought to be able to replace in 1595 like court lute player.

lol micra that´s very tricky...hehehe...so there´s a real REAL trick or threat ;)

Guess the lyrics are different 2 :)

Stop! Wait! There were both!!!!! So there is the Robert Johnson who wrote Have you seen the.... AND the dynamic duo (Edin & Sting, like Batman and Robin, LOL) performed Hellbound on my Trail by Robert Johnson the bluesman, re-arranged on lutes!!! Ok, now it's all clear... pfui! So DRR you were NOT wrong!!!!!

Have you seen but a bright lily grow
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall of snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?
Have you felt the wool of beaver,
Or swan's down ever?
Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier,
Or the nard in the fire?
Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!

Music by Robert Johnson, lyrics by Ben Jonson: a "h" less but why all these guys have all the same surname? Wanna make us going crazy? LOL LOL LOL

I was NOT erong?Blime...:)
So ...what the heck???I don´t get it...
But I also must be the only one that ´DO NOT trust at Sting´s INSTINTS ,lol...I am more than convinced that Dowland lyrics match Mad about you LOL

Yeah he said something like "there's a lot of Johnsons tonight"!! lol!

Aww thanks guys! :) Btw the review may be a while yet, I havn't started it, lol!

Wow, I'm really jealous. I would love to see Sting in such a small venue. It will probably never happen for me though, I live in a very rural area. I'm glad you had such a good time and anxiously await the review and contraban pics.

It's not likely he'll come to where I am or even close. SO I have to live through you guys Vicariosly. I would have grabbed him in 2 shakes of a second Lady D.

Not very positive review..... so Sting can't hold a candle to any "professional" classical singer... but we knew this yet, and also Sting has always said that!

The Times October 06, 2006

Concert


Sting
David Sinclair at LSO St Luke's, EC1

Ever the Renaissance man, Sting has lately turned his attention to playing the lute, devoting himself for the best part of two years to an intense study of the 16th-century composer and performer John Dowland. The fruits of this “labour of curiosity” can be heard on a new CD, Songs from the Labyrinth, a collection of music and readings from the letters of Dowland, performed by Sting and the lutenist Edin Karamazov, which was brought to life at a recital in the restored St Luke’s.



It quickly became clear that Karamazov was going to be shouldering the lion’s share of the actual lute playing. His fingers flew in acrobatic combinations across the giant fretboard, while Sting, sitting bolt upright, broached the dolorous lyric of Flow my Tears. “Let me mourn/ Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sins/ There let me live forlorn,” he sang. The lute sounded glorious — like a classical guitar but fuller and more ripened. And Sting sounded . . . well, like Sting.

And here was the curious thing. Glib and pretentious as the whole exercise might appear on the surface, there was a clearly discernible link between the millionaire pop star of the 21st century and the wandering minstrel of yore. In technical terms, Sting couldn’t hold a candle to any one of the singers from the vocal group Stile Antico, who joined the duo for a swirling rendition of Can She Excuse My Wrongs. And his lute playing would probably not have earned him a position in the courts of medieval Europe. But the harmonic intervals in Dowland’s airs and the general thrust of a song such as The Lowest Trees Have Tops did not sound that far removed from the music that Sting is known for.

As if to underline the point a mischievous choice of encores included Sting’s own song Fields of Gold, a Robert Johnson blues, Hellhound on my Trail and the Police hit Message in a Bottle, all rendered in the courtly, lutenist style. Dowland may have been spinning in his grave, but it was surprisingly good fun.

Broadcast on Radio 3, Oct 8, 1pm, and Oct 10, 10.35pm

A pretty good one: 4 stars out of 5, while The Times gives him only 3 out of 5.

Classical
Sting

LSO St Luke's, London

Ian Gittins
Friday October 6, 2006
The Guardian


Sting's latest artistic venture, despite being pregnant with pratfall potential, is a remarkable triumph. "Haunted" for 20 years by the maudlin music of the Elizabethan songwriter and lutenist John Dowland, Sting has recruited Bosnian lute maestro Edin Karamazov to record an album of Dowland's compositions, Songs From the Labyrinth. The stage would appear to be set for an evening of over-reaching pretension.
The project is saved, however, by the affection both men clearly feel for their arcane subject. Dowland's music is marked by a doleful, spectral introspection, and Sting subjugates his rock-star ego before the spirit of the songs, filling in their outlines in his pitch-perfect and surprisingly resonant tenor.
Tunes such as Come Again, all febrile sprung rhythms and spindly-yet-sensual counterpoint, are plangent and intimately evocative. Sting gamely plucks his lute and Karamazov is a virtuoso, drawing profound joy and complex vibrations from his arsenal of instruments like a madrigally inclined Jimmy Page.
Famously a former teacher, Sting approaches the evening with a pedagogue's air, explaining the minutiae of Dowland's life, and reading excerpts from the composer's correspondence between songs. This attention to detail enhances the delicate delights of a gossamer ditty such as Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow, written for the soundtrack of a play by Ben Jonson.

"I've played to some of the biggest audiences in history, over half-a-million people at a time," says Sting in closing, "but I've never felt as nervous as I did tonight." Such trepidation was unnecessary: against all expectations, this was a genuine tour de force.

La Rossignol is a traditional song?. Maybe is a italian song?. The english translation is The nightingale. Someone have the lyrics?

It's an istrumental piece written for two lutes (Anonymous)