Album: Piano Odyssey
Artist: Rick Wakeman
2018 Sony Music Entertainment
CD: 19075867892

Rick Wakeman: Steinway Model D concert grand piano
The Orion Strings, conducted by Wakeman & Guy Protheroe
English Chamber Choir, conducted by Protheroe
Guitar: Brian May (12)

The English Chamber Choir
Musical director: Protheroe
Manager: Ann Manly
Sopranos: Nicky Archer, Marianne Aston, Jess Daggers, Jocey Hurndall, Anne Johnson, Augusta Lees, Manly, Rosalind Mann, Isabel Morgan, Anne-Sophie O'Connor, Stella Redburn, Kate Roskell
Altos: Amy Bergs, Karen Bloomfield, Sarah Brear, Peggy Hannington, Liz Nissan, Debbie O'Connor, Sarah Perahim, Jenny Rowley, Robyn Sellman, Jay Venn, David Wheeler
Tenors: Simon Archer, Jamie Bloomfield, Francois Boucard, Roger Carpenter, Mark Roper, Michael Roskell
Basses: Hugh Joslin, Nick Landauer, David Lowe, Chris Miller, Maxime Rischard, David Shield, Chris Tickner, Martin Warren

The Orion Strings
Booking agent: Jan Cassidy
Violin: Thom Gould (leader), Simon Blendis (leader), Natalie Klouda, Steve Morris, Martyn Jackson, Emil Chakalov, Greta Mutlu, Sarah Sexton, Richard Milone, Emma Buta, Fenella Humphrey, Zara Benyounes, Nirupam Raja Halder, Jung Yoon, Jamie Campbell, Ciaran McCabe
Viola: Meghan Cassidy, Denis Cassidy, Simon Tantree, Emma Owens
Cello: Tim Lowe, Maria Zachariadou, James Barralet, Ben Ford, Ciaran Carter, William Robertson, Noah Max
Bass: Chi-Chi Nwanoku, Laurence Ungless, Dave Brown, Lucy Shaw


Producer: Wakeman
Orchestra & choir recording engineer: Toby Wood
Orchestra & choir recording recordist: Chirstopher James Parker
Piano recording engineer: Erik Jordan
Guitar recording engineer: Kris Frederiksson/Justin Shirley-Smith (12)
Music editor & mixing engineer: Wood
Mastering engineer: Mike Hatch

Piano recorded at The Old Granary
Orhcestra & choir recorded at Angel Studios London
Guitar recorded at Allerton Hill

Management: Brian Lane/Valerie Potter
Graphic design: Boulder Creative
Photographers: Jan Cassidy/Bolder Creative


Tracks:
1. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" [George Harrison; arr. by Wakeman]
2. "Liebesträume/After the Ball" [Franz Liszt/Wakeman]
3. "And You and I" [Howe/Squire/Anderson/Bruford]
4. "Rocky (The Legacy)" [Wakeman]
5. "The Boxer" [Paul Simon]
6. "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" [David Bowie]
7. "Strawberry Fields Forever" [John Lennon/Paul McCartney]
8. "Roundabout" [Howe/Anderson]
9. "Cyril Wolverine" [Wakeman]
10. "Jane Seymour" [Wakeman]
11. "Largos" [George Frideric Handel/Antonín Dvořák; arr. by Wakeman]
12. "Bohemian Rhapsody" [Freddie Mercury]

Arrangements & orchestrations: Wakeman



Notes: A chilled out album. (4) and (9) are new pieces, written for two Moon Bears rescued by Animals Asia, for which Wakeman is a patron. The album is dedicated to them. (HP, 27 Nov 19)

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