Sarabande | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Jon Lord |
Cover: | cover_-_sarabande-front.jpg |
Released: | October 1976[1] |
Recorded: | 3 - 6 September 1975 |
Genre: | Progressive rock, classical, jazz fusion, symphonic rock |
Label: | Purple Records |
Producer: | Jon Lord and Martin Birch |
Prev Title: | Windows |
Prev Year: | 1974 |
Next Title: | Before I Forget |
Next Year: | 1982 |
Sarabande is the second solo album by Jon Lord recorded in September 1975 near Düsseldorf (Germany). The orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica was conducted by Eberhard Schoener.
The complete Sarabande suite was premiered in live performance in Budapest on 18 September 2010 and later in Sofia on 30 October and Essen on 15 November. Lord amended the 1975 orchestrations, and also orchestrated Aria, which was played on piano and synthesisers on the recording, and Caprice which was simply a group performance on record. 'Finale' was rearranged to allow the ‘parade of themes’ section (which was done with tape-loops on the recording) to be played live.[2]
The cover shows the drawing of an ouroboros, a mythological snake, biting its own tail on which three naked women ride. The woman on the right stands in a position similar to the woman on the cover of Whitesnake's later Lovehunter album, on which Lord played. The original Jon Lord sleeve was designed by Kosh, and the illustration by Mike Bryan.