Piano Portraits

~ Release by Rick Wakeman (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
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1Help
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Help! (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
writer:
John Lennon (The Beatles) and Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
publisher:
Maclen Music, Inc. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney), Music Corporation of America, Inc. (BMI-affiliated music publisher of MCA Records, Inc.?), Northern Songs ltd, SBK Blackwood Music Inc. (1987-12-30–1989-07-14), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020), Sony/ATV Tunes LLC and Unart Music Corp.
3:56
2Stairway to Heaven
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Stairway to Heaven (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
writer:
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin)
publisher:
Superhype Music, Inc. (ended), Warner/Chappell Music Japan, Synch division (ended), Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (holding company – do not use as release label) (ended), Flames of Albion Music, Inc., Neue Welt Musikverlag GmbH München, Superhype Publishing and Warner Chappell
6:13
3Life on Mars
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Life on Mars? (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
lyricist and composer:
David Bowie
publisher:
Chrysalis Music Ltd. (music publisher), EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), RZO Music Ltd, Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc. (USA, affiliated with BMI) and Tintoretto Music
3:23
4I’m Not in Love
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
I’m Not in Love (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
writer:
Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!), Schubert Music Publishing, St. Anne's Music, St. Anne’s Music Ltd. and Man-Ken Music Ltd. (in 1975)
sub-publisher:
イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
3:10
5Wonderous Stories
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Wonderous Stories (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
lyricist and composer:
Jon Anderson (Yes/Jon & Vangelis)
publisher:
Rondor Music (London) Ltd., Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label), Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23), Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996), Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09) and Topographic Music, Ltd. (in 1977)
4:24
6Berceuse
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
recording of:
Berceuse, op. 16 (catch-all for arrangements) (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
composer:
Gabriel Fauré (French composer)
arrangement of:
Berceuse for Violin (or Cello) and Piano in D major, op. 16
4:28
7Amazing Grace
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Amazing Grace (popular hymn first published 1779, catch‐all) (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
publisher:
Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist and writer:
John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
additional composer:
Edwin Othello Excell
composer:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist) and [traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Patterdale Music Ltd., Rokstone Music Ltd., Universal Classics & Jazz (Japanese label division - read the annotation before using!), Universal Music Publishing Group Japan (work publisher - do NOT use as a release label), イーエムアイ音楽出版 C・F事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of:
Viisikielinen (Song book of "Viides herätysliike") (number: 94)
3:56
8Swan Lake
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
partial instrumental recording of:
Swan Lake, op. 20 (Лебединое озеро) (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
composer:
Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Russian romantic composer)
part of:
The Tchaikovsky Handbook (number: TH 12), Thematic and Bibliographical Catalogue of P. I. Čajkovskij's Works (number: ČW 12) and Works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by opus number (number: op. 20)
54:29
9Morning Has Broken
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Morning Has Broken (Rick Wakeman arrangement)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
publisher:
Imagem (Dutch music publisher, acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in June 2017)
arrangement of:
Morning Has Broken
3:42
10Summertime
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental recording of:
Summertime (American songbook standard from 1935 opera Porgy and Bess) (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
lyricist:
Dorothy Kuhns (playwright), Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), Chappell Music Ltd., Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Publishing, George Gershwin Music, New Dawn Music, Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996), Warner/Chappell, Warner/Chappell Music Holland BV, Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09), Ira Gershwin Music (in 1935), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (from 1935 until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
version of:
Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. “Summertime” (Clara)
4:07
11Space Oddity
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Space Oddity (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
lyricist and composer:
David Bowie
publisher:
Onward Music Ltd., TRO Essex Music International, Inc., Tro-Cromwell Music, Inc. and Westminster Music Ltd.
4:47
12Dance of the Damselflies
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental recording of:
Dance of the Damselflies (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
composer:
Rick Wakeman
3:33
13Clair de Lune
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
recording of:
Suite bergamasque : III. Clair de lune (catch-all for arrangements) (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
composer:
Claude Debussy (composer) (from 1890 until 1905)
arrangement of:
Suite bergamasque, L. 75, CD 82a : III. Clair de lune (for piano)
3:06
14I Vow to Thee My Country
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental recording of:
I Vow to Thee, My Country (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
lyricist:
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice (in 1918)
composer:
Gustav Holst (composer) (in 1921)
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) and Rive Droite Music Ltd.
part of:
A thematic catalogue of Gustav Holst’s music (number: H. 148)
52:57
15Eleanor Rigby
recorded in:
Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
engineer and mixer:
Erik Jordan (engineer)
producer:
Rick Wakeman
grand piano [Steinway Model D grand piano]:
Rick Wakeman (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
arranger:
Rick Wakeman
instrumental cover recording of:
Eleanor Rigby (from 2016-07 until 2016-08)
written in:
London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (in 1965) and Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (from 1965 until 1966)
writer:
John Lennon (The Beatles) and Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
publisher:
Blackwood Music Inc. (1953-02-07–1987-12-30), Maclen Publishing Co. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney), MPL Communications Ltd. (not for release label use! Paul McCartney-related, London-based company), Music Corporation of America, Inc. (BMI-affiliated music publisher of MCA Records, Inc.?), Northern Songs Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020), Sony/ATV Songs LLC and Sony/ATV Tunes LLC
written at:
Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, Westminster, London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (in 1966)
45:05

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