Ed Bangor’s Bootlegs
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Michael Ball

On Christmas Eve

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Date

Recorded: 4th December 2004
Broadcast: 24th December 2004

Location

Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland

Source

BBC Radio2
Taper unknown
Lineage MP3 (256kbps)

Rating

9.5/10

Comments

Great concert broadcast on Christmas Eve on Radio2

However this may have been recorded from a 

web stream as there's a touch of compression noises

at the very edges of the sound scape 

here and there but nothing too distracting.

Cast

Michael Ball (MB)

Celia Graham (CB)

Michael McCarthy (MM) 

John Owen-Jones (JOJ)
Emma Williams (EW)

BBC Concert Orchestra
 Callum McLeod - conductor

Track Listing

Act1
Overture & Radio Intro

This Is the Moment (MB)

Don't Rain on My Parade (MB)

Sunset Boulevard (MB)

Last Night of the World (MB)

Boy From Nowhere (MB)

The Phantom of the Opera (MB & CG)

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (CG)  

Not While I'm Around (MB)

Gethsemane (MB)

On My Own (EW)

Stars (MM)

Bring Him Home (JOJ)

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (MB)

One Day More (all)

Act2

What Love Is for (MB)

Too Much In Love (MB & EW)

River (MB)

O Holy Night (MB) 

When A Child Is Born (MB)

Love Changes Everything (all)

Christmas Medley (all)

--Michael Ball's speech--

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (MB)