''Pictured Within'' was the first studio album from Deep Purple's

Jon Lord John Douglas "Jon" Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only ...

in sixteen years. It features performances from Sam Brown, Miller Anderson,

Pete York Peter York (born 15 August 1942 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England) is an English rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s. Biography Born in Middlesbrough but growing up in Redcar, York attended the Nottingham High School an ...

and

Thijs van Leer Thijs van Leer (; born 31 March 1948) is a Dutch singer and keyboardist, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist. Born and raised in Amsterdam among a musical family, van Leer ...

among others. ''Pictured Within'' was released in October 1998 by Virgin Classics. "Wait a While", one of the few non-instrumental tracks off the album, performed by Sam Brown, was issued as a single in 1999. In addition, Jon Lord played a short tour of Germany in May 1999 to promote the album.

Track listing

* Part 1 - The Valley # "Sunrise" (5:47) # "Pictured Within" (5:22) - Singer: Miller Anderson # "From the Windmill" (6:55) * Part 2 - Blue Sky Dreams # "Circles Of Stone" (2:24) # "Menorca Blue" (4:10) # "Evening Song" (8:00) - Singer: Sam Brown * Part 3 - Of Heroes and Heroines # "Music for Miriam" (4:48) # "Arc-En-Ciel" (4:29) # "Wait a While" (5:57) - Singer: Sam Brown * Part 4 - Beneath A Higher Heaven # "Crystal Spa (Kyrie Eleison)" (14:40) # "The Mountain-Sunset" (5:24) # "A Different Sky" (6:49)

Production notes

* All music composed by Jon Lord. Lyrics by Jon Lord ("Pictured Within") and Sam Brown ("Evening Song", "Wait a While") * Mixed at the Everest Studios, Köln * Recorded at Maarweg Studios, Köln, 1997 * Produced by Jon Lord * Engineered by Frank Meyer * Mixed by Frank Meyer and Jon Lord (assisted by Chris Heinemann)

Personnel

* Jon Lord - piano * Hagen Kuhr - cello * Ina Stock - oboe, cor Anglais * Frank Struck - French horn * Rodrigo Reichel - violin * Stefan Pintev - violin * Vytas Sondeckis - cello * Mike Routledge - viola * Miller Anderson - vocal * Sam Brown - vocal * - percussion, voices * Pete York - orchestral percussion *

Colin Hodgkinson Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is a British rock, jazz and blues bassist, who has been active since the 1960s. Career Hodgkinson played in several bands, but was even more prolific as a sessio ...

- fretless bass * Ravi - kora *

Thijs Van Leer Thijs van Leer (; born 31 March 1948) is a Dutch singer and keyboardist, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist. Born and raised in Amsterdam among a musical family, van Leer ...

- flute * Rick Keller - soprano saxophone * Sabine Van Baaren - voices * Christina Lux-York - voices * Serge Mailiard - voices * Stefan Scheuss - voices

References

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