Airdate: Deep Purple Live with the London Symphony Orchestra
This concert at Royal Albert Hall recreates Deep Purple's innovative 1969 album, Concerto for Group and Orchestra.
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Ovation will air a concert featuring legendary rock band Deep Purple with London Symphony Orchestra staged in 1999 at the Royal Albert Hall.
Wikipedia notes the project was started by keyboardist Jon Lord, who sought to recreate the band’s innovative 1969 album, Concerto for Group and Orchestra, of which the original score was lost.
With the help of a fan who was also a musicologist and composer, the two painstakingly recreated the lost score, and Lord elected to have the band perform it once more at the Royal Albert Hall, but this time with the London Symphony Orchestra rather than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Paul Mann as conductor rather than Malcolm Arnold.
The concert also featured songs from each member’s solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set.
This is the concert’s first screening on Australian TV, to air at 6pm Friday September 17th on Ovation.
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Unfortunately they (Foxtel) dumped Ovation, so even pay subscribers like myself can’t see this without an extra subscription.
I would have loved to see it too.
Ok, there is something I’d like to watch on PayTV.