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Title: Was it Lake who said,
Review: "They call us pretentious and pompous - so we are!" Indeed. One must be quite adventurous to put one's name next to Mussorgsky's, co-authoring his masterpiece acclaimed for more than a century. The good musicianship softens the blow somewhat; not to confuse with good music, it was more of a fashion statement. With regard to the vogue of experimenting with classics, Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra was the most honest effort of them all (albeit futile too). While its musical and compositional merits could be debated, the idea behind combining rock with classical (in this case, rather pseudo-classical) music was of much greater ingenuity.
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