Deep Purple-Concerto For Group and Orchestra (1969)

The idea of merging rock elements with academic or classical music emerged in the mid-sixties with groups such as The Nice, who knew how to exploit very well and [too much Emerson] some recesses and rhythmic structures of symphonic music and with a very influence marked by composers such as Jean Sibelius, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Highlight "Five Bridges" (69) as his best album.
Another group that managed not only to merge but to incorporate an entire orchestra in one of their albums were the Moody Blues with the already known "Days of Future Passed" (67), then Deep Purple would come with the live one they recorded with full orchestra in the Royal Albet Hall achieving practically insurmountable results in those years. The famous "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" (69) became the first official album with this training: Lord, Gillan, Paice, Glover and Blackmore.
The fact that Deep Purple (Mark II) saw the possibility of recording a live album with a siphon orchestra born from his organist Jon Lord, lover and student of classical music and that already with his previous group proposed to compose songs with arrangements "symphony rock concert" but never became a reality until years later with this famous concert that was recorded on September 24, 1969 and also broadcast live for the BBC in London. In this performance the three main movements of the Concerto were preceded by three themes (only two appear in the CD reissue of 91) and the 6th Symphony of Malcolm Arnold, baton of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Lord and Cia. Manage to expose all their sonic potential mixed with the symphonic cadences of the orchestra, in which we can distinguish the powerful hammond of JL, the pungent guitar of Blackmore and the great drums (the bass drum sounds phenomenal) of Paice entering in tune with orchestral motifs that evoke Gustav Mahler, the classic soundtrack composer Max Steiner and the most epic John Barry (eg Robin and Marian). Mention that in this concert there are sketches of "concert symphony" and "concerto grosso".