🎵 Concerto For Group and Orchestra
Using just one album as an example of the mess that is Apple Music Meta Data ….
Using just one album as an example of the mess that is Apple Music Meta Data ….
Concerto For Group And Orchestra was a 1969 album by Deep Purple. It’s always been a favorite - despite not being a big fan of the band itself. I mean - it’s not that I don’t like them - they just don’t feature large in my ‘go to’ artist list … although Jon Lord … totally different story. A massive fan of Jon Lord.
He features in three lists I have on AlbumWhale
- Big Albums From ‘Small’ Artists List .
- Gateway Drugs … where he is one of five artists that loomed large in my musical preferences in 1969. That’s how long I have been aware of his work.
- But Is It Classical.
Anyway - back to the plot.
To put the album into context these are the first four albums in the Deep Purple discography ….
- July ’68 - ’Shades’.
- October ’68 - ’Taliesyn’.
- June ’69 - ‘Deep Purple’.
- December ’69 - The ‘Concerto’.
In other words in 17 months they released 4 albums - the 4th being this live album with The Royal Philharmonic;
With all the Apple Classical back and forth recently, I was delighted to find that it is indeed in the ‘classical’ app - which is great because for whatever reason I had never before found it in the main music app …
- ‘Deep Purple’ - it is not there. (Not in albums, live albums nor compilations.).
- ‘Jon Lord’ - it is not there either.
- ‘The Royal Philharmonic’ - not there.
I have the original vinyl. I have the CD. I have ripped the CD into my iTunes Library, so it never really bothered me …. until now, because in the Classical App when I searched for Deep Purple OR Jon Lord - I found it …
Which got me to wondering - so back to the main app - and a quick search for ‘Malcolm Arnold’ - and voila - though if you search for ‘Malcolm Arnold’ in the classical app - who know if it is there … life is too short to wade through the results!
Seperately, the recording that Lord did in 2012 is much easier to find - but that is the problem with Apple Music across the board. History and originals tend to be ignored if there is something more recent with the same / similar name.
Also interesting that literally in the past two weeks there has been a lot of coverage about a group of artists going out on tour to play this music …
Watch: BRUCE DICKINSON Kicks Off 2023 Tour Performing JON LORD’s ‘Concerto For Group And Orchestra’.