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Episode #284 – Deep Purple – In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (Part 1)

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Our History With The ’99 Concerto:

Lead up to the Album:

  • Dutch composer Marco de Goiej discovered Deep Purple in his brother’s record collection. One day his brother came home with “Concerto For Group and Orchestra.” Marco was very interested in this release and decided that he wanted to track down the score but learned that it was never for sale.
  • He thought about transcribing it for a while then decided to try to track the score down.  Wrote a letter to Malcolm Arnold and reached out to The Hollywood Bowl and a few other things.
  • Finally decided to do it himself. Left a note at the reception desk with 30 pages of the most difficult bit.  Jon’s name was not on the guest list so he left it to attention to Colin Hart.
  • When he left the hotel a car pulled up and Ian Gillan and Jon Lord were getting out.  He approached Jon Lord and told him that he’d just left a note.  Jon was in a very bad mood after a rough trip from the airport and not in the mood until he heard the purpose of Marco’s visit.
  • Deep Purple played Rotterdam on October 12, 1998 on the Abandon tour.
  • He finished about 60% of the score and decided to track down Jon Lord.  Went to Rotterdam in 1998.  
  • Press Release Announcing Concerto
    • 21 September 1999
      PRESS RELEASE
      DUTCH COMPOSER REVIVES LOST CONCERTO
    • On the 25 and 26 September 1999 the London Symphony Orchestra (L.S.O) together with British rockband Deep Purple will perform the “Concerto for Group and Orchestra” in the Royal Albert Hall in London. These concerts are organised because of the 30th anniversary of the piece. It is the first performance since 30 years. Reason for this 30 years of silence: the score had disappeared.
    • Jon Lord, organist with Deep Purple, composed his “Concerto for Group and Orchestra” in 1969. Thanks to the efforts made by the Dutch composer Marco de Goeij, the “Concerto” will be performed again. De Goeij who knew that the score had been missing, decided to make a full transcription of the piece by listening to the CD. It took him two years to finish the transcription, which clocks in at a staggering 300 pages of manuscript. Jon Lord, impressed with De Goeij’s work made some revisions to the score and updated the instrumentation.
    • At the concerts, organised by the Nordoff Robbins Therapy Charity not only the revised “Concerto for Group and Orchestra will be performed, but also several old pieces from band members are planned. The hope is to close the show with a couple of Deep Purple songs featuring the band accompanied by the L.S.O..
    • Have a look at some photos showing Marco de Goeij together with Jon Lord and Ian Paice. The photos were taken recently in Pistoia, Italy.
    • © photos: Jan Willem Bakker
  • FAQ Leading Up to Performances
  • https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/RAH99/faq.html
  • Marco de Goeij discusses reconstructing the lost musical score for Jon Lord’s Concerto in 2011
  • Differences Between The 1969 Concerto and the 1999 Concerto:

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  • The Royal Albert Hall
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Setlist

  1. Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 (Malcolm Arnold)
  2. Pictured Within (Lord)
  3. Wait a While (Lord, Brown)
  4. Sitting in a Dream (Glover)
  5. Love is All (Glover, Hardin)
  6. Via Miami (Gillan, Glover)
    • From “Accidentally on Purpose” 1987
  7. That’s Why God Is Singing the Blues (Dave Corbett)
  8. Night Meets Light (Morse)
    • From the Dixie Dregs Album “What If” 1978
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If_(Dixie_Dregs_album)
    • Paul Mann: The earliest releases of the CD contained, as was fashionable at the time, a video playable on a computer of Smoke on the Water, and in order to make space for this they had to jump through hoops with the audio order. We did try to tell them it was stupid because people would buy both formats anyway,  but they didn’t listen until they released the so called Tour Edition, the following year which restored Night Meets Light after protests from Steve and myself, and I think tried to make more sense of it.
  9. Take It Off the Top (Morse)
    • From the Dixie Dregs Album “What If” 1978
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If_(Dixie_Dregs_album)
  10. Wring That Neck (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)

Paul Mann writes: I do remember though that the cd and dvd had different running orders which don’t necessarily reflect the order of the night. I would imagine that the set lists stored on places like The Highway Star website are likely to be more reliable.   I think both nights were the same, but can’t be sure about that either…!

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