Here it is –
the album sleeve for David's forthcoming Live
In Gdańsk album, which is due in September.
The last concert on David's 2006 Summer Tour
was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards
in Gdańsk, Poland, at the request of the Gdańsk
Foundation. The creation of the Solidarity movement,
after Lech Walesa's sacking from the shipyards,
led directly to the dismantling of the Soviet
Union's control over the former Eastern
Bloc, and to the reunification of Germany.
The concert was the only occasion on which David performed
the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong
string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for
the On An Island album's orchestral arrangements.
Other unique features of the show included the special
6-screen design, created by lightmeister Marc Brickman
to allow each band member his own dedicated screen
for the edification of the audience; the performance
of A Great Day For Freedom with the orchestral
arrangement of the late Michael Kamen, and a guest
appearance by prominent Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer,
who reprised his piano part from A Pocketful Of
Stones.
