Watch Deep Purple's Ian Gillan perform 'Smoke on the Water' with an orchestra

The special orchestral performance is lifted from Gillian’s three-part audio-visual live album ‘Contractual Obligation’, which came out via earMUSIC last month.

Released on Blu-ray, 2CD & digital and 3LP, each respective format features a full performance three Eastern European cities featuring a different local orchestra each night.

The formats are as follows:

Contractual Obligation #1: Live In Moscow (On Blu-ray)
Contractual Obligation #2: Live In Warsaw (On 2CD & digital)
Contractual Obligation #3: Live In St. Petersburg (On 3LP).

Alongside being flanked by an orchestra, Ian Gillan was accompanied by the Don Airey Band, which features the mercurial guitar talents of Simon McBride.

The setlists each night featured Deep Purple classics (and rarities (including ‘Razzle Dazzle’ and ‘Anya’) together with Ian Gillan solo tracks.

Watch the full performance of ‘Smoke on the Water’ in the Polish capital right here:

The full ‘Contractual Obligation’ track-listing is as follows:

2CD (Live in Warsaw)

CD1
1. Hang Me Out To Dry
2. Pictures Of Home
3. No Lotion For That
4. Strange Kind Of Woman
5. Razzle Dazzle
6. A Day Late ‘N’ A Dollar Short
7. Lazy
8. Rapture Of The Deep
9. When A Blind Man Cries

CD2
1. You’re Gonna Ruin Me Baby (with Grace Gillan)
2. Ain’t No More Cane On The Brazos
3. Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth)
4. Anya
5. Perfect Strangers
6. Hell To Pay
7. Demon’s Eye
8. Smoke On The Water
9. Hush
10. Black Night

Blu-Ray (Live in Moscow)

1. Hang Me Out To Dry
2. Pictures Of Home
3. No Lotion For That
4. Strange Kind Of Woman
5. Razzle Dazzle
6. A Day Late ‘N’ A Dollar Short
7. Lazy
8. Rapture Of The Deep
9. When A Blind Man Cries
10. You’re Gonna Ruin Me Baby (with Grace Gillan)
11. Ain’t No More Cane On The Brazos
12. Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth)
13. Anya
14. Perfect Strangers
15. Hell To Pay
16. Demon’s Eye
17. Smoke On The Water
18. Hush
19. Black Night

3LP (live in St. Petersburg):

Side A
1. Hang Me Out To Dry
2. Pictures Of Home
3. No Lotion For That
4. Strange Kind Of Woman

Side B
1. Razzle Dazzle
2. A Day Late ‘N’ A Dollar Short
3. Lazy

Side C
1. Rapture Of The Deep
2. When A Blind Man Cries
3. You’re Gonna Ruin Me Baby (with Grace Gillan)
4. Ain’t No More Cane On The Brazos

Side D
1. Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth)
2. Anya
3. Perfect Strangers

Side E
1. Hell To Pay
2. Demon’s Eye
3. Smoke On The Water

Side F
1. Hush
2. Black Night