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"Piano Concerto No. 1" is a composition for piano and orchestra by the British musician Keith Emerson. It was released on the 1977 album Works Volume 1, by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The piece is 18 minutes long, and takes up the whole first side on the album.
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. [1]
Keith Emerson recorded his Piano Concerto No. 1, Greg Lake wrote several songs with lyricist Peter Sinfield, and Carl Palmer recorded tracks of varied musical styles. The album peaked at No. 9 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 12 on the US Billboard 200 and went gold in both countries, the latter for 500,000 copies sold.
The "Emerson" Piano Concerto (also titled the "Emerson" Overture for Piano and Orchestra) was the unfinished draft of Charles Ives's Emerson movement of the Second Piano Sonata ("Concord, Mass. 1840–60"). [1] Ives intended to convey his idea of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1]
Emerson had contemplated recording an adaptation of the 4th Movement ("Toccata concertata") of Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto as far back as the beginning of 1971. He had heard the toccata for the first time when he was a member of The Nice and had been "struck with the music immediately". [ 15 ]
Piano Concerto, Op. 1 (destroyed, material partly used in the Piano Concerto No. 2) Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 16 (1913) Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 28, for left hand alone, written for Paul Wittgenstein (1924) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Per Aspera ad Astra, Op. 32 (1927) Russian Rhapsody; Dmitry Bortniansky. Piano ...
Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert (also known as simply In Concert) is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at their 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada which is featured on the album cover.
All but one of the tracks from the band's most recent album Brain Salad Surgery appear in versions nearly unchanged from their studio renditions, save for the insertion of a five-minute Palmer drum solo to climax "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression" and a stripped-down rendition of the Lake ballad "Still...You Turn Me On" which appears along with an equally downsized "Lucky Man" in the middle of Lake ...