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Encyclopedia > Concerto for Group and Orchestra
Concerto for Group and Orchestra
Album cover
Album by Deep Purple
Released December 1969
Recorded September 24, 1969
Genre Classical/Rock
Length 59:26
Label Warner Bros.
Producer(s) Deep Purple
Professional reviews
Deep Purple chronology
Deep Purple
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Concerto for Group and Orchestra
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Deep Purple in Rock
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The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, composed by Jon Lord. Image File history File links This image is the cover of an album or single. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... This article is about the rock group. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Template:DecemberCalendar2006 December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... In music crossover is a term used to describe artists of a certain style or genre whose popularity crosses the considered boundaries of where the music of that style or genre is normally found. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... This article is about the rock group. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: 3. ... This article is about the rock group. ... Deep Purple is the third studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1969 on Harvest Records in the UK and on Tetragrammaton in the US, who ran into difficulty over the use of the Vatican owned Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. Original US editions are rare because... Deep Purple in Rock is a hard rock-album by Deep Purple released in 1970. ... In classical music, the word concerto (pl. ... This article is about the rock group. ... The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is an English orchestra based in London. ... Jon Douglas Lord is a British Hammond organ and piano player. ...

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Musical Form

The Concerto for Group and Orchestra displays some characteristics of as well the concerto grosso, the sinfonia concertante, and the concerto for orchestra genres: The concerto grosso (plural concerti grossi) was a popular form of baroque music using an ensemble and usually having four to six movements in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno). ... Sinfonia concertante is a musical form that originated in the classical music era, and is a mixture of the symphony and the concerto genres: It is a concerto, in that it has one or more soloists (in the classical music era usually more than one). ... Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo instruments pitted against an orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. ...

  • First movement (Moderato - Allegro): after an elaborate orchestral introduction the Group and the Orchestra work as separate blocks, trying to get dominance over the main theme - this opposition of a group of soloists against an orchestra is quite "concerto grosso" style. +
  • Second movement (Andante), with lyrics sung by Ian Gillan: here the group integrates more with the sound of the orchestra while still clearly on top of the orchestral tissue, giving a sinfonia concertante look and feel. +
  • Third movement (Vivace - Presto): apart from Ian Paice's drum solo, the music is so tighly knit that the distinction between the group and the orchestra is almost lifted: in a way the group becomes part of an extended orchestra, with one elaborate "solo" passage, by an instrument that is no soloist throughout the movement, giving a concerto touch: this is more or less what is understood by the Concerto for Orchestra genre.
  • In 2003 EMI released a special edition DVD-A of Concerto for Group and Orchestra, featuring the entire program of music played that night:

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Track listing

  1. "1st Movement": Energico 9:19
  2. "2nd Movement": Lento 8:52
  3. "3rd Movement": Con Fuoco 7:02
  • Deep Purple:
  1. "Hush" (Joe South) 4:42
  2. "Wring that Neck" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Nick Simper) 13:23
  3. "Child in Time" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) 12:06
  • Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold
  • Concerto for Group and Orchestra:
  1. "First Movement": Moderato-Allegro (Lord) 19:23
  2. "Second Movement": Andante (Lord; lyrics by Gillan) 19:11
  3. "Third Movement": Vivace-Presto (Lord) 13:09
  4. "Encore - Third Movement": Vivace-Presto (Part) (Lord) 5:53

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Personnel

Richard Hugh Blackmore, (born April 14, 1945) is a noted English guitarist. ... Ian Gillan in 2003 Gillan greeting fans backstage, July 19, 2005, after a Deep Purple concert in Ottawa, Canada. ... Roger Glover in concert at Big Flats, New York in 2002. ... Jon Douglas Lord is a British Hammond organ and piano player. ... Ian Anderson Paice (born June 19, 1948) is a renowned rock drummer. ...

See also

In music crossover is a term used to describe artists of a certain style or genre whose popularity crosses the considered boundaries of where the music of that style or genre is normally found. ... This article is about the rock group. ... Ian Gillan in 2003 Gillan greeting fans backstage, July 19, 2005, after a Deep Purple concert in Ottawa, Canada. ... Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (born October 21, 1921) is an English composer. ... Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences is an arts venue dedicated to Queen Victorias husband and consort, Prince Albert. ...

External links

1969 performance (& recording)

1999 performance (& recording)


  Results from FactBites:
 
PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY JOHN "BOBO" BOLLENBERG (1251 words)
Instead a mere three rehearsals with the orchestra were done and that's all that could be managed as the entire concert was in aid of a charity called Task Force.
Disc two contains the actual concert Jon Lord wrote for "group and orchestra," an experience which in 1969 was a rather exceptional fact resulting in a lot of interest from the media.
When the actual concerto is finished the band returns for a well deserved encore their choice being part of the final movement.
Chaz Reviews #16: Deep Purple: Concerto for Group and Orchestra (554 words)
Two themes dominate this movement, one on cor anglais, a stronger one on flutes, and neither group or orchestra attempts to seize the upper hand; it's a fully-collaborative effort.
Nothing in the preceding two movements, though, quite prepares you for the aural fireworks of the third, allegro vivace into presto, in which the orchestra and the group are brilliantly intertwined and textures and timbres of every kind are woven into the high-velocity mix.
On the strength of the Concerto, the BBC commissioned Jon Lord to write another work of this sort; the Gemini Suite debuted 17 September 1970 at the Royal Festival Hall with the band, the Light Music Society, and once again Malcolm Arnold conducting.
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