Rick Wakeman

2010 release from the veteran keyboardist and Prog legend, a collection of songs written by some of the world's finest composers. Always With You contains compositions from the new and old, all of which have been recorded by Rick in his own inimitable style…

Even though the majority of the songs include vocals, Rick Wakeman's 1984 stands as one his most well-rounded albums, combining the dexterity and mastery of the keyboards with the richness and instrumental passion of violins, trombones, and flutes…

This is the second volume of Rick Wakeman's Airs trilogy of solo new age piano pieces. It's a fine showcase for Wakeman the virtuoso, with strong playing on a variety of original compositions…

Within the same year of re-joining Yes for 1977's Going for the One, Rick Wakeman released yet another solo instrumental concept album. Criminal Record, Wakeman's sixth album in five years, involves six tracks that instill Wakeman's keyboard wizardry to both fictional and historical accounts of punishment, villainy, and crime…

Based on music Wakeman wrote for the finale of a Dickens Festival in Rochester-upon-Medway, England, this is an unclassifiable melange of an album, stylistically similar to Phantom Power or Time Machine…

The soundtrack to Ken Russell's movie provided Wakeman with a canvas upon which to work his magic (or do his damage – it depends upon one's attitude) upon the music of Franz Liszt and, to a lesser degree, Richard Wagner. Actually, much of what is here is more substantial than the material on Journey or Myths and Legends, which can be attributed largely to the composers' contributions…

A "rescoring" of the film of the 1976 Winter Olympics – Wakeman no longer has rights to his original soundtrack – this is a solid mid-level entry in the Wakeman catalog. Kicking off with some harder-rocking guitar than usual in "Oriental Iceman," this soundtrack reaches its high point with the deft "Dancing on Snowflakes"…

After the massive scale of the Journey to the Center of the Earth and Myths and Legends of King Arthur… projects, Wakeman was told by his record company (and his finances, and his health), "no more extravaganzas." So he produced this album with a stripped-down seven-piece band he called the English Rock Ensemble…

This double record is very accessible and Wakeman really uses a new technology to produce easy listening songs. One word: ADDICTIVE!…

Made in Cuba"", presents Rick Wakeman with his band the New English Rock Ensemble performing to a capacity crowd live at the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana, Cuba. In April 2005, invited by the Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Music Institute and the Swiss foundation, ""Association Friends of Cuba"" - Rock Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman traveled to Havana, to perform a series of concerts that will forever be recognized internationally as an enormous event for the Cuban people, and a historic moment marked by the importance of one of the first and largest official Rock concerts ever to be performed on the Island…