Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge (1970)

The supergroup “Emerson, Lake & Palmer“ is one of most successful rock bands in the subgenre of the Progressive rock. The band members Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (bass guitar) and Carl Palmer (drums) showed their musical virtuosity in interpretations of classical pieces like “Pictures of an Exhibiton“ by Russian composer Modest Mussorgski. The live album with the same title, which was issued as a low-priced record in 1970, helped the band to enormous popularity in Europe and USA. The song “Knife-Edge“ from their debut album “Emerson, Lake & Palmer“ is loosely based on Leoš Janáček “Sinfonietta“ (1926). And the middle section of the song features parts of Johann Sebastian Bachs “First French Suite in D minor“ (known as Bach Works Catalogue No. 812). Ironically both composers were not named on the original album release in 1970 ...