Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Deep Purple album)

Infobox Album | Name = Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Type = Live Album
Artist = Deep Purple


Released = February 8, 2000
Recorded = September 25-September 26, 1999
Royal Albert Hall, London
Genre = Symphonic rock
Hard rock | Length =
Label = Spitfire
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = ""
(2000)
This album = "Live at the Royal Albert Hall"
(2000)
Next album = "Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy"
(2001)

"Live at the Royal Albert Hall" is a live album by British hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded on September 25 and September 26, 1999 at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the London Symphony Orchestra, and released on February 8, 2000 on Spitfire records.

The album was a project started in 1999 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 conducter rather than Malcolm Arnold. The concert also featured songs from each member's solo careers, as well as a short Deep Purple set, and guest musicians such as Ronnie James Dio, the Steve Morse Band, and Sam Brown. In early 2001, two similar concerts were also performed in Tokyo, and were released as part of the "The Soundboard Series" box set.

A DVD of the performance was also released, entitled "In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra".

Track listing

Disc one

#"Pictured Within" (Jon Lord) – 8:38
#"Wait a While" (Lord, Sam Brown) – 6:44
#"Sitting in a Dream" (Roger Glover) – 4:01
#"Love Is All" (Glover, Eddie Hardin) – 4:40
#"Via Miami" (Ian Gillan, Glover) – 4:51
#"That's Why God Is Singing the Blues" (Dave Corbett) – 4:02
#"Take It off the Top" (Steve Morse) – 4:43
#"Wring That Neck" (Ritchie Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Ian Paice) – 4:38
#"Pictures of Home" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 11:58

Disc two

#"Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Mov. 1" (Lord) – 17:03
#"Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Mov. 2" (Gillan, Lord) – 19:43
#"Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Mov. 3" (Lord) – 13:28
#"Ted the Mechanic" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 4:50
#"Watching the Sky" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 5:38
#"Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 7:44
#"Smoke on the Water" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice) – 6:43

External links

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/live-at-the-royal-albert-hall-rock-album-1?cat=entertainment Answers.com entry]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfqxqrkldte Allmusic review]