The Who's Tommy Orchestral

The Who's Tommy Orchestral
Live album by Roger Daltrey
Released	14 June 2019
Recorded	July 2018 February 2019
Venue	Bethel, New York, US Budapest, Hungary
Genre	Rock, classical
Length	69:19
Label	Polydor
Producer	Roger Daltrey and Keith Levenson[1]

The Who's Tommy Orchestral is a live album by English rock singer Roger Daltrey, performing The Who's 1969 album Tommy alongside members of The Who touring band and a symphony orchestra conducted by Keith Levenson. It was recorded in July 2018 in Bethel, New York, at the site of the original Woodstock festival, during a US tour of the concert. Later, in February 2019, Levenson directed and recorded the Budapest Scoring Orchestra in Budapest with new arrangements from David Campbell, to add a new orchestral backing to the album.^[2][3]

The album was released by Polydor on 14 June 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of the original recording, as a vinyl 2-LP set and a single CD. The track list presents the original studio album almost exactly, with the only changes being it missing "Underture", and a slightly different order.^[4] According to Daltrey "[the album is] played as a structured piece of music that is written and respected just as we respect the great composers of the past".^[5] The cover was designed by Richard Evans.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Pete Townshend, except where noted.

Charts

Personnel

Band

• Roger Daltrey – vocals, producer
• Simon Townshend – guitar, vocals
• Frank Simes – guitar, background vocal
• Jon Button – bass, background vocal
• Loren Gold – keyboards, background vocal
• Scott Devours – drums
• David Campbell – arranger
• Keith Levenson – conductor, producer
• Budapest Scoring Orchestra – orchestra

Technical

• Gareth Johnson – mixing
• Richard Whittaker – mixing, additional production
• Richard Evans – sleeve design
• Andrew Bannister – label design

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