Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: Rick Wakeman Title: White Rock II (1999) Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Mfa Release Date: 6/14/1999 Album Type: Import Genres: New Age, Rock Styles: Progressive, Progressive Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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 | Rick Wakeman White Rock II (1999) Genres: New Age, Rock
Part of the immense body of work of this ex-member of YES and THE STRAWBS is presented here. Rick WAKEMAN has frequently been described as a keyboard prodigy. After a spell as a session musician at the end of the Sixties (... more » |
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Album Description Part of the immense body of work of this ex-member of YES and THE STRAWBS is presented here. Rick WAKEMAN has frequently been described as a keyboard prodigy. After a spell as a session musician at the end of the Sixties (Notably working with David BOWIE, Cat STEVENS, T-REX and BLACK SABBATH), he reached the peak of his fame during the following decade, contending with Keith EMERSON for the title of "most skillful keyboardist". In 1973 he launched a solo career with an adaptation of the famous Jules VERNE story "Journey To The Center Of The Earth". "White Rock" was the soundtrack to the film of the same name, recorded in 1977. It was intended for the Winter Olympic Games. 1998 saw the release of "White Rock II", seven beautiful instrumental themes, still linked with athletic performance. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsGreat Second Part Victor Gospodinoff | Miami | 10/09/2004 (4 out of 5 stars) "In 1976 Rick Wakeman was asked to compose the music for the official film of the Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck that same year.
The Score he produced revolutionized the way that music and sport were to combine and not only was the film a box office success, but the soundtrack album, WHITE ROCK, was a huge best seller reaching the top ten in the album charts in the UK and top twenty in numerous other countries around the world. In 1997, Rick was contacted by Konrad Bartelski at R=Trans World International who was involved in the re-editing of four official Winter Olympic games films for television transmission later that year. One of them was the 1976 Winter Olympics from Innsbruck. After evaluating the scores from the remaining three films, Konrad felt that as they were being edited anyway, thai was the perfect opportunity to have them re-scored, and so after lengthy discussion with Rick, new scores were produced for the edited films and the Reflections of Winter programmes were born. The response to the music was so positive that Rick set about the task of rearranging and recording the various themes from Reflections of Winter, just a he had done back in 1976 with the Innsbruck film, and produced seven tracks of outstanding quality well worthy of the title of WHITE ROCK II" |
