''Windows'' is a live album by

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and the German conductor and composer

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. The music and the record are primarily credited to Lord. It was taped at a concert in

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, (West) Germany on 1 June 1974 and the music is a mix between

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and orchestral late romantic/modernist styles. The piece on the first side, "Continuo on B-A-C-H" is a loose attempt to build on the unfinished triple fugue that closed

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's "

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". The second side of the LP is a three-part composition called "Window". In the liner notes of the LP album Lord makes a comparison between the rhapsodic structure here and the

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tradition of chain composition of poetry in medieval Japan. The music of the middle section was lifted from Lord's earlier crossover effort ''

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'' (1971).

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, Glenn Hughes and Lord himself perform as soloists along with the Munich Chamber Opera Orchestra conducted by Schoener. The album was released on LP by Purple Records (distributed by

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) in late 1974 and reissued on CD (at least in West Germany) in 1987 by

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Track listing

All compositions by Jon Lord and Eberhard Schoener #"Continuo On B.A.C.H." - 16:27 #"Window" - 32:22 ##"1st Movement - Renga" ##"2nd Movement - Gemini" ##"3rd Movement - Alla Marcia: Allegro" *Catalog number of original LP: 1C 06295634

Personnel

- piano, organ, ARP synthesizer *

- vocals *

- guitar *

- piano, organ, vocals * Glenn Hughes - bass, vocals *

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- drums, percussion *

- Moog synthesizer *The Munich Chamber Opera Orchestra conducted by Eberhard Schoener *Ermina Santi, Sigune Von Osten - soprano vocals *George Morrison - trumpet solo *Gottfried Greiner - cello solo *Gunter Salber - violin solo {{Authority control 1974 albums Jon Lord albums Purple Records albums