The Beatles Concerto


The Beatles Concerto is an instrumental musical medley of tunes from songs by The Beatles, arranged and composed by John Rutter within a classical "Piano Concerto Form".

The LP

A recording from 1979 engineered by Ron Goodwin included the interpretation and performance of concert-pianists Peter Rostal and Paul Schaefer as well the accompaniment from Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, Rutter's The Beatles Concerto and its recording have been compared to concertos from Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. It has also been described as not being "...the album, with a medley of tunes, by Lennon-McCartney-Harrison, but contains a number of The Beatles songs, arranged in a classical form...". The original LP record was produced by The Beatles producer George Martin.

A side

  1. 1st Movement: Mæstoso - Allegro Moderato 8:00

  1. 2nd Movement: Andante Espressivo 7:36

  1. 3rd Movement: Presto 7:53

    B side

  2. The Fool on the Hill 5:09

  1. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 2:25

  1. Michelle 3:15

  1. Maxwell's Silver Hammer 2:37

  1. Here Comes the Sun 3:25

  1. A Hard Day's Night 4:08

The bonus 7" single featuring Here, There and Everywhere/Something and Can't Buy Me Love/The Long And Winding Road came free with the album

Discography

Photography and design was for the album package was by Hipgnosis.