Collegium Musicum - Burleska (Live)

Описание: The various images used within this video are taken from photos and scans of my original Czechoslovakian vinyl LP jacket/cover, and labels - Collegium Musicum "Live" (1973) on the Opus record label 9115 0261.

Excerpt taken from "The New Gibraltar Encyclopedia Of Progressive Rock"...
In the style of ELP, they were active from 1971 until 1981. Your best buy is the live album [1973]. Perhaps a bit jazzier than ELP.
Whereas many of the progressive bands in what was then the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia were fusion-oriented and had strong guitar presence, Collegium Musicum's leader, keyboardist Marián Varga, took his cues from classical music and steered his band into the same murky waters between classical and rock that Keith Emerson had been navigating with The Nice. Considering Czechoslovakia's harsh political climate in 1969 (Prague's Spring was only a year in the past, after all), when clampdown on any dangerous ideological elements in art cast its shadow over the relative musical independence of previous years (which didn't stop bands on government-owned labels like Supraphon from clashing with the rulebook), working on classical music in rock context, as Collegium Musicum did on their debut single "Hommage à J.S. Bach" / "Ulica plná plastov do dazda" (Panton 03 0250), might also be seen as a relatively safe way of starting a career of explorative music making.