'David Gilmour Live In Gdansk' is a double live album released on Columbia Records. 'David Gilmour Live In Gdansk', the first solo live album from Pink Floyd's singer / guitarist, captures the magic of his concert held in front of 50,000 in the Gdansk shipyards, the final performance of his critically acclaimed 2006 'On An Island tour'. It also features the first ever recording of selected Pink Floyd classics performed with an orchestra. Former President of Poland Lech Walesa and Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz invited David Gilmour and his band to perform this very special concert to mark the 26th Anniversary of the founding of Trade Union Solidarity. The concert, funded by the City of Gdansk and Solidarity, was titled "It Started in Gdansk - The Space Of Freedom" and was held on August 26, 2006, a National holiday for the Polish people commemorating the founding in 1980 of The Solidarity Trade Union. Nine years later The Solidarity Trade Union toppled the Communist Government, with its leader Lech Walesa elected President of a democratic Poland. The double live album 'David Gilmour Live In Gdansk', produced by David Gilmour and Phil Manzanera, features the Gdansk concert and demonstrates a musician and his band playing at the very peak of their musical brilliance. The six piece band is accompanied for the only time on the 'On An Island tour' by an orchestra: the 40-strong string section of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, orchestral arranger on David Gilmour's critically acclaimed solo album, "On An Island". It is the first ever live recording with an orchestra of Pink Floyd's 'High Hopes' and 'A Great Day For Freedom', the latter performed here as a one-off for this special Solidarity anniversary. Playing with Gilmour at this historic concert was his band of world renowned musicians:Richard Wright - Pink Floyd's keyboard player, Phil Manzanera - Roxy Music guitarist and co-producer of On An Island, Guy Pratt - bass player with Pink Floyd and Roxy Music, Jon Carin - keyboards and long time player with Pink Floyd, Steve Di Stanislao - drums, recently played with Crosby and Nash, and Dick Parry - saxophone and long time Pink Floyd collaborator.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. Time
4. Breathe (reprise)
5. Castellorizon
6. On An Island
7. The Blue
8. Red Sky At Night
9. This Heaven
10. Then I Close My Eyes
11. Smile
12. Take A Breath
13. A Pocketful Of Stones
14. Where We Start

Disc 2:

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
2. Astronomy Domine
3. Fat Old Sun
4. High Hopes
5. Echoes
6. Wish You Were Here
7. A Great Day For Freedom
8. Comfortably Numb