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The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto composed by Jon Lord, with lyrics written by Ian Gillan. It was first performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold on 24 September 1969 and released on vinyl in December 1969. The release was the first Deep Purple album to feature Ian Gillan on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. After the score was lost in 1970, it was performed again in 1999 with a recreated score.
[edit] Musical formThe Concerto for Group and Orchestra displays some characteristics of the concerto grosso, sinfonia concertante, and concerto for orchestra genres:
[edit] Original 1969 Royal Albert Hall Performance[edit] PerformanceThe piece was first performed and recorded on 24 September 1969 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, by:
The programme consisted of:
Parts of the Concerto's "Third Movement" - 5:53 - were given as an encore. [edit] ReleasesThe Concerto for Group and Orchestra was first released on vinyl in December 1969 in the United States (Tetragrammaton) and in January 1970 in the United Kingdom (Harvest). These releases contained only the "Concerto", with the second movement broken in two halves.Copies of the original U.S. editions are rare as Tetragrammaton went bankrupt while the album was still being issued. In the following year, the Concerto became the only Tetragrammaton release to be reissued by Warner Bros., Deep Purple's new U.S. label. On 4 April 1970, the Concerto was shown on British television as The Best of Both Worlds. The 1990s saw a CD release including the songs "Wring That Neck" and "Child in Time". In 2002 EMI released special edition DVD-A and SACD sets of Concerto for Group and Orchestra, featuring the entire program of music played that night. In 2003, a video recording of this concert was released on DVD. However, four and a half minutes of the 1st Movement are missing in this video. [edit] 1970 Los Angeles performanceThe Concerto was performed one more time, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster at the Hollywood Bowl on 25 August 1970, after which the score was lost. [edit] 1999 Royal Albert Hall performances[edit] PerformanceOn 25 and 26 September 1999, thirty years after its initial performance, the Concerto was again performed in front a live audience in the Royal Albert Hall. To make this performance possible, a new score was created by Marco de Goeij by listening to the recording and watching the video of the 1969 performance. Performers were:
The programme consisted of:
[edit] ReleasesThe recording of the concert was released on a double CD as Live at the Royal Albert Hall. A cut recording of the performance was also released on DVD, entitled In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra. [edit] 2000-2001 Concerto TourEncouraged by the success of the 1999 performances, Deep Purple took the Concerto on tour, first performing it in South America with local orchestras, then in Europe with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, in Japan with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, all conducted by Paul Mann. [edit] Subsequent performancesThe score of the concerto having been recreated, groups and orchestras across the world were free to perform it:
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