Concerto for Group and Orchestra

Concerto for Group and Orchestra
Live album by Deep Purple & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Released	December 1969 (US) January 1970 (UK)
Recorded	24 September 1969
Venue	Royal Albert Hall (London)
Genre	Classical crossover progressive rock
Length	59:26
Label	Tetragrammaton (US) Harvest (UK) Polydor (Canada)
Producer	Deep Purple
Deep Purple chronology
Deep Purple (1969) Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969) Deep Purple in Rock (1970)

Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a live album by Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in September 1969. It consists of a concerto composed by Jon Lord, with lyrics written by Ian Gillan. This is the first full length album to feature Ian Gillan on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. It was released on vinyl in December 1969. The original performance included three additional Deep Purple songs, "Hush", "Wring That Neck", and "Child in Time"; these were included on a 2002 release. This was the last Deep Purple album distributed in the US by Tetragrammaton Records, which went defunct shortly after.^{[citation needed]}

This album, a long planned project driven by Jon Lord, was not very successful in the United States but helped to restore Deep Purple's reputation and image in the United Kingdom. ^[1]

The 1969 performance is considered "groundbreaking" because it was the first time that a major rock band recorded a live album with a full-fledged orchestra, cementing the "then odd but today very common" relationship between heavy rock and classical music. ^{[2][Note 1]}

The original score for the concerto was lost in 1970; however, it was performed again in 1999 with a recreated score, and has been performed several times since.^{[citation needed]}

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