WINDOWS is a live album by JON LORD and the German conductor and composer Eberhard Schoener. It was recorded at a concert in Munich in 197 4, and the music is a mix between progressive rock and orchestral late romantic/modernist styles.
It features musicians from the rock world such as David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes. Dark Horse Records is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Windows with a limited colour vinyl pressing. “Continuo on B-A-C-H” is a loose attempt to build on the unfinished triple fugue that closed Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Art of the Fugue. ” The second side of the LP is a three-part composition called “Window. ” Ray Fenwick (The Spencer Davis Group, Ian Gillan Band); Tony Ashton (The Remo Four , Family); David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Deep Purple); Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath); and Lord himself perform as soloists along with the Munich Chamber Opera Orchestra conducted by Eberhard Schoener.
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
1. Continuo on B.A.C.H.
SIDE B
1. Window (1st Movement: Renga)
2. Window (2nd Movement: Gemini)
3. Window (3rd Movement: Alla Marcia-Allegro)