Boxset / Compilation · 2019
Tracklist
The Long Farewell (Final Rainbow Session)
1-1 Arioso Dolente 5:51
1-2 Lucian 4:16
1-3 Hymn For Johanne 5:09
1-4 Departure 7:09
1-5 The Wake 3:21
1-6 The SIlhouettes 5:23
1-7 In The Bleak Midwinter 5:42
1-8 Kali 5:10
1-9 The Child 4:55
1-10 Prelude No.1 4:35
1-11 The Letter 4:40
1-12 The Curtain 4:06
1-13 Fragment 2:11
1-14 Spring Breeze 5:39
1-15 Fanny Xiang (The Sleeping Child) (The Long Farewell Version) 6:20
The Rainbow (First New Rainbow Session)
2-1 Fanny Xiang (The Sleeping Child) (The Rainbow Version) 6:26
2-2 Undercurrent 2:45
2-3 The Sorrow (Rolf Jacobsen Memoriam) 3:43
2-4 The Rainbow 5:03
2-5 In The Night, Midwinter 3:16
2-6 The Orphan Child 4:43
2-7 Icon 1:40
2-8 The Source 4:52
2-9 The Grave, The Oracle 4:10
2-10 Psalm 4:18
2-11 Places, People, Moments And Years 4:00
2-12 Song For A Mother 2:12
2-13 The Day Descending 4:40
2-14 Twelve, Zero 1:54
2-15 The Unknown 4:37
2-16 The Ocean Line 2:32
2-17 Past 2:40
2-18 The Sudden Moment 2:13
2-19 Solace (The Rainbow Version) 2:47
The Way Through The Woods (The New Steinway Rainbow Session)
3-1 Solace (The Way Through The Woods Version) 4:38
3-2 The Secret 4:12
3-3 The Blue Room In Vika 4:29
3-4 The Day After 2:54
3-5 Libidel's Song Before The Mirror 3:09
3-6 By The Fjord 5:21
3-7 The Way Through The Woods 6:09
3-8 Intermezzo Opus 118 No. 2 7:16
3-9 Barcarolle 4:51
3-10 I've Never Sailed The Amazon 3:47
3-11 The White Hotel 3:31
3-12 The Birth 4:19
3-13 The First Night 3:11
3-14 The Change 3:10
3-15 Nocturne 2:49
3-16 The Old Story 3:27
3-17 Blue Man 5:31
The Third Instrument (The Last Session)
4-1 The Story 5:06
4-2 Silhouette 1:27
4-3 To Fanny 3:37
4-4 Song Of Belonging 2:48
4-5 Departure 2:48
4-6 The Stranger 3:17
4-7 From Beginning To The End 2:13
4-8 Before The Rain 2:21
4-9 A Sudden Thought 1:59
4-10 Underground 2:20
4-11 Missing 1:42
4-12 Whatever 2:26
4-13 If Not 1:19
4-14 The Sorrow 1:53
4-15 Perhaps 2:18
4-16 Because 4:28
4-17 Into The Woods 1:58
4-18 The Road 2:01
4-19 Painting Flowers 3:29
4-20 Sea Breeze 1:26
4-21 Habanéra Lamentoso 3:25
4-22 The Sadness And The Beauty 3:34
4-23 Miserere (After Allegri) 1:52
4-24 Drifting 2:10
4-25 Watercolours 2:12
4-26 Oil On Canvas 1:05
4-27 Tempera 2:18
4-28 The Road At Night 1:38
4-29 So Far, My Friend (To Jan Erik Kongshaug) 4:57
Line-up/Musicians
Piano – Ketil Bjørnstad
About this release
Grappa GRCD4630 (Norway)
The Long Farewell: Recorded on Wednesday 23rd June 2004 in the old Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway.
The Rainbow: Recorded on Monday 9th August 2004 in the new Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway.
The Way Through The Woods: Recorded on Monday 20th December 2004 in the new Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway.
The Third Instrument: Recorded March 2013 - June 2017 during five different sessions in Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway.
Thanks to snobb for the addition