Hamburger Concerto | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Focus |
Cover: | Focus Hamburger Concerto.jpg |
Recorded: | January–March 1974 |
Studio: | Olympic Sound Studios |
Genre: | Progressive rock, instrumental rock, Jazz fusion, Symphonic prog |
Length: | 40:06 |
Label: | Polydor, Atco |
Producer: | Mike Vernon |
Prev Title: | At the Rainbow |
Prev Year: | 1973 |
Next Title: | Mother Focus |
Next Year: | 1975 |
Hamburger Concerto is the fourth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in April 1974. It peaked at No. 20 on the UK charts.[1] The title track is based on Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms. The composition also incorporates the first two verses of the Dutch Christmas carol O Kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen at around 15 min. The first track is based on a Gaillarde of Joachim van den Hove of his work Delitae Musicae.