Compact disc

Bonus CD includes excerpts from Elvis Costello's ballet, Il Sogno after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Durations: 70:10 ; 46:23

Program notes and lyrics in container insert

Disc 1 (Elvis Costello, vocals; Metropole Orkest; Vince Mendoza, conductor); disc 2 (Peter Erskine, percussion; John Harle, sax; Chris Laurence, bass; London Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas)

Recorded live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2004

disc 1.

Hora decubitus -- Favorite hour -- That's how you got killed before -- Upon a veil of midnight blue -- Clubland -- Almost blue -- Speak darkly -- Almost ideal eyes -- Can you be true? -- Put away forbidden playthings -- Episode of blonde -- My flame burns blue (blood count) -- Watching the detectives -- God give me strength