What to expect from Bruce Dickinson concerts with orchestra in Brazil

I can’t miss you anymore Bruce Dickinson. After two visits to Brazil in 2022 – for concerts with Iron Maiden in September and for a talk at Rio Innovation Week in November -, the vocalist returns with a different project.

Next April, he will perform four concerts in the country celebrating the Concert for Group and Orchestraone of the most important works of the career of Jon Lordkeyboardist of deep purple died in 2012. The performance was even recorded with the purple and released as a live album in 1969.

the singer of Iron Maiden will be accompanied by a band formed by John O’Hara (Jethro Tull) on keyboards, Tanya O’Callaghan (Whitesnake) on the bottom, Kaitner Z Doka (Jon Lord, Ian Paice) on guitar and bernard welz (Jon Lord, Don Airey) on the battery. In addition to them, the show will have a symphony orchestra of more than 80 instrumentalists, assembled especially for the occasion with members of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) and some of the main symphonies in the country. It will be led by Paul Mannwho has appeared in dozens of concert performances, including a 1999 performance at the royal albert hallin England.

In Brazil, the shows take place in the following places and dates:

– 04/15/2023: São Paulo (Vibra São Paulo)
– 04/19/2023: Curitiba (Teatro Positivo)
– 04/21/2023: Rio de Janeiro (Vivo Rio)
– 04/25/2023: Porto Alegre (Auditorium Araújo Vianna)

But what to expect from this presentation? It is known that the musicians will not only play the Concerto for Group and Orchestrabut what other works will be played?

Bruce Dickinson with orchestra in Brazil

Tour in honor of Concert for Group and Orchestra circulates through Europe before arriving in Brazil. Presentations have been held in Romania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina so far – and that’s where we’ll get the details.

The evening begins with the full performance of the Concert for Group and Orchestradivided into three acts: Allegro, walking It is presto. After that, the repertoire approaches rock by bringing songs from deep purple and the solo career of Bruce Dickinson.

For those waiting to hear Iron Maiden, worth the message: no song from the iconic heavy metal band is featured. The setlist is restricted to four classics of deep purple is a song (“hush”) which is original from joe south and was rewritten by purpleas well as two solo compositions by bruce: “Tears of the Dragon” It is “Jerusalem”.

See, below, the repertoire performed and some videos of one of the shows performed so far.

Concert for Group and Orchestra:
1. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, First Movement: Moderato – Allegro
2. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Second Movement: Andante
3. Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Third Movement: Vivace – Presto
Songs by Bruce Dickinson and Deep Purple:
4. Tears of the Dragon (Bruce Dickinson)
5. Jerusalem (Bruce Dickinson)
6. Pictures of Home (Deep Purple)
7. When a Blind Man Cries (Deep Purple)
8. Hush (Joe South/Deep Purple)
9. Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)
Bis:
10. Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)

“Tears of the Dragon”

“Smoke on the Water”

“Perfect Strangers”

Excerpt from Concerto for Group and Orchestra: