Gdansk - 2005


2005 marked the 25th anniversary of the Polish workers' movement, Solidarnosc. It was given its rightful grand celebration with a large-scale Jarre concert on August 26, as wished by Nobel Peace Prize, and founder of Solidarnosc, Lech Walesa.

 

The setting was the Gdansk shipyards, where the Solidarnosc movement was born. Over 170,000 paying audience attended the concert, and in addition, the concert could be watched on giant screens around the city and live on National TV.

 

Within the concert repertoire, Jarre performed an uplifting and moving arrangement of Mury, an old Polish worker's hymn. Quite appropriately in the old docks environment, Jarre chose Industrial Revolution as the opening track.

 

Synchronised to the music, the concert featured a lavish display of fireworks. The old ship's cranes were lit in many colours and were used to move the giant screens around.


Track list:

1. Shipyard Overture [Industrial Revolution]

2. Oxygene 2

3. Chopin Memories

4. Aero

5. Oxygene 4

6. Souvenir

7. Geometry of Love

8. Equinoxe 4

9. Space of Freedom [March 23]

10. Aerology

11. Theremin solo

12. Chronology 2

13. Mury

14. Chronology 6

15. Oxygene 8

16. Light My Sky

17. Tribute to Jean-Paul II [ Acropolis]

18. Second Rendez Vous

19. Vivaldi (Summer-Presto)

20. The Emigrant

21. Oxygene 12

22. Fourth Rendez Vous

23. Solidarnosc [Oxygene 13]

24. Aerology (Neimo remix)

 

Musicians:

Jean Michel Jarre

Francis Rimbert

Patrick Rondat

Claude Samard

Polish Baltic F.Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra

Gdansk University Choir

 

Date and Place:

26. August - Gdansk, Poland

 

Estimated Audience:

170.000















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