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Deep Purple: In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra

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Label: Eagle Records
Released: 1999.12.20
Time:
 51:45 / 75:15
Category: Symphonic Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.deep-purple.com
Appears with: Ritchie Blackmore
Purchase date: 2010.05.15
Price in €: 2,00





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CD One:
[1] Pictured Within (Deep Purple) - 8:38
[2] Wait A While (Brown/Lord) - 6:44
[3] Sitting In A Dream (Deep Purple) - 4:01
[4] Love Is All (Glover/Hardin) - 4:40
[5] Via Miami (Deep Purple) - 4:51
[6] That's Why God Is Singing The Blues (Deep Purple) - 4:02
[7] Take It Off the Top (Morse) - 4:43
[8] Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Simper) - 4:38
[9] Pictures Of Home (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 11:58

CD Two:
[1] Concerto for group & orchestra - Movement I. (Lord) - 17:03
[2] Concerto for group & orchestra - Movement II.  (Lord) - 19:44
[3] Concerto for group & orchestra  - Movement III. (Lord) - 13:28
[4] Ted the Mechanic (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice) - 4:50
[5] Watching the Sky (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice) - 5:38
[6] Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice) - 7:44
[7] Smoke On The Water (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 6:44  

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Steve Morse - Guitar, Producer
Jon Lord - Organ. Producer
Roger Glover - Bass. Producer
Ian Paice - Drums, Producer
Ian Gillan - Vocals, Producer

Steve Morris - Guitar
Dave LaRue - Bass
Van Romaine - Drums
Simon C. Clarke - Baritone & Alto Saxophone, Flute
Tim Sanders - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
Mario Argandona - Vocals, Percussion

Peter Brown - Vocals
Aitch McRobbie - Vocals
Margo Buchanan - Vocals
Sam Brown - Vocals

London Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra
Paul Mann - Conductor

Graham Preskett - Violin
Paul Spong - Trumpet
Roddy Lorimer - Trumpet
Annie Whitehead - Trombone

Will Shapland - Engineer, Mixing
Alex Goodison - Assistant Engineer
Shaun Defeno - Mixing
Marco Miari - Ass. Mixing
Jaquie Turner - Pro-Tools

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2000 CD Spitfire Records 15068
2000 CD BMG/Arista 74321730512
2006 CD JVC Victor 63427

This 1999 two-disc live set features the long-running heavymetallurgists with high-class symphonic backing, in a program of new songs, old favourites. The album's centrepiece is keyboardist Jon Lord's 1969 composition "Concerto for Group and Orchestra". Lord's influences are wide-ranging - a littleAaron Copland, a little Charles Ives, a little Bela Bartok,and a lot of movie music. There are traces of both Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone, and moments that seem to echo Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen's soundtrack work on the LETHAL WEAPON series. Unsurprisingly, it's not altogether cohesive, but it has its moments, and the performance here is far better rehearsed than its original recorded incarnation. The rest of the album veers, generally attractively, betweenneo-Andrew Lloyd Webber balladry such as "Pictured Within" and "Wait a While", (the latter a tour-de-force by guest vocalist Sam Brown), and more traditional Purple fare. Guitarist Steve Morse is featured in impressive guitar workouts on both "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" and the much-recorded "Smoke on the Water".

Recorded live at two sold out shows at the Royal Albert Hall on September 25 and 26, 1999, which were benefits for the Nordoff-Robbins Trust. Two disc set contains almost the entire concert which featured the 80 piece London Symphony Orchestra and special guests Ronnie James Dio, Sam Brown and Eddie Hardin. 1999 release. Double slimline jewecase.



Deep Purple was the first band to note that heavy metal and classical music share a certain deluded grandeur and attempted to combine the two. While what resulted - specifically, their Concerto for Group and Orchestra - was pretty fearful stuff, it did, for better or for worse, pave the way for a generation of classically influenced heavy-rock bands: King Crimson, Yes, and Queen, among others. The concerto on this live CD appears alongside a bunch of the Purple's more genteel songs they played at the Royal Albert Hall, a show that celebrated their 30th anniversary of their first appearance there. Ian Gillan, who can still do a creditable impression of a bomber revving for takeoff, shares vocals with Ronnie James Dio and Sam Brown.

Andrew Mueller - Amazon.com



Wer eine CD sucht, auf der harte Rockmusik mit Klassik fusioniert, kann sich entweder Metallicas S & M zulegen - da wird gezeigt, wie man´s nicht machen sollte - oder die ´70er Deep Purple-Scheibe Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Dieses begnadete, von Hammondorgel-Koryphäe Jon Lord komponierte 50-Minuten-Werk ist im September 1999 mit den Londoner Symphonikern live neu aufgenommen worden. Und wo man schon mal dabei war, hat man auch gleich noch 13 weitere Tracks mit klassischen Einschüben, Soul-Sängerinnen, einem fetten Bläser-Quintett und Gaststars wie Ex-Black Sabbath/Rainbow-Sänger Ronnie James Dio veredelt. Anstelle eines Purple-Best-of-Sets enthält die Doppel-CD allerdings vorrangig Auszüge aus den teils recht unbekannten Solo- und Projektalben der Herren Gillan, Morse, Glover und Lord. Selbst gestandene Purple-Fans dürften also so manche Überraschung erleben. Doch auch Hit-Fanatiker kommen auf ihre Kosten, da zum Ende hin mit "Ted The Mechanic", "Pictures Of Home" , "Wring That Neck", "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" und dem unvermeidlichen "Smoke On The Water" einige Purple-Perlen in genialen Multi-Crossover-Versionen zum Zuge kommen. Aber die Songauswahl ist hier eh zweitrangig: Schon das blinde Verständnis zwischen sämtlichen Akteuren und die schier unfassbaren technischen Fähigkeiten der legendären Feeling-Rocker - wie immer eine Klasse für sich: Wundergitarrist Steve Morse - machen diesen Doppeldecker zum Pflichtkauf.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



This double-CD set, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in late 1999, is best thought of as an encapsulation of the inevitable. Deep Purple were the first band to note that heavy metal and classical music shared a certain deluded grandeur and attempted to combine the two. While what resulted - specifically, their "Concerto For Group & Orchestra" - was pretty fearful stuff, it did, for better or for worse, pave the way for a generation of classically influenced heavy rock bands: King Crimson, Yes and Queen, among others. "Concerto" features here, played for the first time in years, alongside a bunch of the Purple's more genteel songs. Ian Gillan, who can still do a creditable impression of a bomber revving for takeoff, shares vocals with Ronnie James Dio and Sam Brown. The all-hands-on-deck encore of "Smoke On The Water" is included as a CD video, confirming that it all looked, on the night, as engagingly preposterous as it sounded.

Andrew Mueller - Amazon.co.uk



Spitfire released the CD version of this concert that Deep Purple filmed in London. While a solid live album with an interesting and rare performance, Live at the Royal Albert Hall has even less mainstream appeal than the In Concert With the London Symphony Orchestra DVD. The musical experiment is more interesting to watch than it is to listen to, making the CD a definite fans-only item. Deep Purple's Live at the Royal Albert Hall will please the band's longtime fans. Not only are they still rocking, but Deep Purple pulls off a feat that destroys most bands. Hard rock acts like Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith have recorded with full orchestras to mixed results. At worst, such bands sound preposterous; at best, the multi-instrumental arrangement matches the sweeping grandeur of rock & roll. It makes sense for Deep Purple to team up with the London Symphony Orchestra and see what would happen. After all, this is the band whose very first record included a track called "Concerto for Group and Orchestra." That track, incidentally, was recomposed for the band's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Standout tracks include "Wait a While" and "Love Is All" but, of course, every Deep Purple fan will want to know how "Smoke on the Water" comes off. Of all the songs performed that night in 1999, one imagines that the symphony was most unimpressed by this most-loved Deep Purple heavy metal anthem. It does bring down the house, however, with thousands of headbangers making the hall sound like it would have if Mozart had lived in the rock era. The high-energy concert, captured on DVD and released in 1999, is one of the best of its kind; however, few fans of classical music will be impressed, especially if they only listen to the performance. But fans who get excited to learn that Deep Purple is joined on stage by Ronnie James Dio, Sam Brown, and the Steve Morse Band will enjoy this musical experiment. These diehards will also enjoy watching the VHS or DVD too, so why only get the audio? Certainly adding the lush symphonic sounds in the background of these melodic hard rockers enriches the originals a great deal. A fun concert that is more fun to watch than to simply listen.

JT Griffith - All Music Guide

 

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