CD + DVD edition. 2025 release features 12-tracks of instrumental piano mastery from the legendary yes keysman. With 'Melancholia', Rick Wakeman completes a remarkable trilogy of solo piano works that began with 'Piano Portraits' (2017) & continued with 'Piano Odyssey' (2018) - both landmark albums that found him reaching new heights of popularity & critical esteem as a solo artist. But while those records looked outward, reinterpreting beloved melodies & exploring sweeping themes, 'Melancholia' turns inward, inviting us into the most personal, introspective & perhaps profound music of Wakeman's storied career. The album began, as so much of Wakeman's finest work has, with a quiet moment at the piano. One afternoon, his wife Rachel overheard him playing a contemplative piece - what would later become "Garo" - & was struck by it's quiet emotional power. And because she knew well that he often turned to the piano in times of sadness or inner turbulence, using music as a kind of emotional compass, she encouraged him to share it. What followed was not a conceptual record in the traditional sense, but a deeply cohesive suite, written intuitively at first & later shaped in collaboration with long-time producer & engineer Erik Jordan at The Granary Studio in Norfolk. Recorded on a beautiful Steinway Model D, the sound of 'Melancholia' is rich, resonant & stripped bare in the most delicate way.

Track List

1. Sitting at the Window (03:24)
2. Reflection (03:41)
3. Pathos (04:13)
4. Dance of the Ghosts (03:57)
5. Alone (04:46)
6. The Morning Light (03:28)
7. Garo (03:50)
8. All in the Mind (05:01)
9. Sea of Tranquility (02:59)
10. Missing (03:39)
11. Watching Life (03:50)
12. Melancholia (03:39)
13. Inside Melancholia (Short Film) (21:42)
14. Melancholia (Music Video)
15. Interview (Video)