Elvis Costello To Release Live Orchestral Work

Elvis Costello will release My Flame Burns Blue, a live album with Metropole Orkest, a 52-piece jazz orchestra from The Netherlands, on Feb. 24, 2006 on Deutsche Grammophon. The album was recorded in concert at The Hague.

A bonus disc highlights a 45-minute suite from Costello’s first full-length, orchestral work: Il Sogno.

In January, Costello and Steve Nieve will begin a worldwide tour of symphony halls performing with local orchestras. The concerts consist of a suite from Il Sogno followed by songs arranged for voice, piano and orchestra by Costello, Sy Johnson, Bill Frisell, Vince Mendoza and Nieve.