Under a Violet Moon

Under a Violet Moon
Studio album by Blackmore's Night
Released	May 25, 1999 (Germany) / July 13, 1999 (United States)
Recorded	During 1998/1999
Genre	Celtic, folk rock, neo-Medieval, hard rock
Length	58:49
Label	Edel (Germany) Platinum Entertainment (United States)
Producer	Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Glixman, Roy McDonald
Blackmore's Night chronology
Shadow of the Moon (1997) Under a Violet Moon (1999) Fires at Midnight (2001)

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Under a Violet Moon is the second studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, released May 25, 1999. Under a Violet Moon won the New Age Voice award for the best vocal album of the year.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Under a Violet Moon"	Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night	4:23
2.	"Castles and Dreams"	Blackmore, Night	3:33
3.	"Past Time with Good Company"	trad. by King Henry VIII	3:24
4.	"Morning Star"	Blackmore, Night	4:41
5.	"Avalon"	trad.	3:03
6.	"Possum Goes to Prague" (Instrumental)	Blackmore	1:13
7.	"Wind in the Willows" (feat. John Ford)	Alan Bell	4:12
8.	"Gone with the Wind" (Includes "Polyushko-polye" by Lev Knipper, a popular Russian song of mid-1930s.)	Blackmore, Knipper, Night	5:24
9.	"Beyond the Sunset" (Instrumental)	Blackmore	3:45
10.	"March the Heroes Home"	trad. by Michael Praetorius, Blackmore, Night	4:39
11.	"Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)"	trad.	5:23
12.	"Catherine Howard's Fate"	Blackmore, Night	2:34
13.	"Fool's Gold"	Blackmore, Night	3:32
14.	"Durch den Wald zum Bach Haus" (Instrumental)	Blackmore	2:31
15.	"Now and Then" (including the Prelude in C by J.S. Bach)	Night	3:11
16.	"Self Portrait" (Rainbow cover)	Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio	3:19

Personnel

Blackmore's Night

• Ritchie Blackmore – guitars, mandolin, bass, Renaissance drums, tambourine
• Candice Night – vocals, pennywhistle

Guest musicians

• John Ford – vocals, bass on #07, background vocals on #01 & 10
• Miri Ben-Ari – violin on #04 & 11
• Peter Rooth – bass on #01 & 16; drum programming on #07 & 08
• Mick Cervino - additional bass on #04
• Kevin Dunne – drums
• Mike Goldberg - military drum on #03
• Adam Forgione - additional keyboards on #04
• Jens Johansson – keyboards on #01, 04, 07 & 15
• Jeff Glixman, Roy McDonald - additional keyboards
• Jason Chapman - trumpet and flugelhorn on #08
• Thomas Roth - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10
• Albert Danneman - bagpipes, backing vocals on #10
• Albrecht Schmidt-Reinthaler - harpsichord on #10
• Jost Pogrzeba - percussion on #10
• Christof Heus - trumpet on #10
• Adolf Lehnberger - trombone on #10
• Gell Spitz - trumpet on #10
• Rolf Spitz - trombone on #10
• Mark Pender - trumpet
• Mr. & Mrs. Heller - hurdy-gurdy
• Scott Hazell, Sue Goehringer, John Gould, Trish - backing vocals

Charts performance

Year	Chart	Position
1999	Japan	13
	Germany	20

Packaging

The albums' cover image is inspired by the German old town street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber