Classical Composer Reacts to Judas Iscariot (Rick Wakeman) | The Daily Doug (Episode 562)
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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On this Good Friday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to Judas Iscariot by Rick Wakeman. This piece is the last track on his 1977 album Criminal Record, and it features a genuine pipe organ, synths, and a choir. The music is evocative, beautiful, and tragic. I was very taken by it, and I'm pleased to share my reaction to this work with you all. I hope you enjoy!
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After so many YES song reviews, finally one for Rick Wakeman. By the way Journey To The Centre of the Earth and "King Arthur" albums also deserve a chance. 🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎹🎹
Agreed. Also 'No Earthly Connection'. Rick is an amazing composer and musician.
Doug, react to the original "Journey" recording. I was lucky to see him in 74 with the narrator and orchestra.
Not to forget "The Six Wives of Henry Vlll"...🙂
He played 1984 at a concert recently. Great to hear
+1 for King Arthur complete, all tunes there are outstanding
Criminal Record is criminally underrated! So glad you listened to this amazing song.
Guilt, Sorrow, Sadness, Malice, Evil, Regret, Forgiveness, and many other feelings that this one song provides. Rick is amazing, a genius of Keyboards and music♥️
This a great song by Rick. And remember he recorded it 15 years before Phantom of the Oprea.
My thought!
But 6 years after Pink Floyd’s Echoes which lays out that theme as well!
Well, 9 years, but the point is still the same. 🙂
Heh..., the Phantom ting again. Nobody ever claimed that Lloyd Webber was particularly original. However, my main man Barry is correct, that very distinctive descending five note bass figure features very prominently on the Floyd's Echoes from the 1971 Meddle album.
Electric Light Orchestra did a very similar theme.
The choir is singing the hymn: "There is a Green hill far away. without a city wall. Where the Good Lord was crucified, who died to save us all".
Choirs are such a Great instrument
Once in royal Davids city!
sort of reminds me of the wedding song from Mamma Mia
My absolute favourite piece by Rick Wakeman and one of the first pieces by him I heard, introduced to me by my French school exchange partner in the mid 1980s.
Yes, it is the Anglican Easter hymn "There is a green hill far away". The words we sang from the standard Church of England hymn book, Hymns Ancient and Modern, were:
"There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord was crucified
Who died to save us all."
A lot of personal memories wrapped up in this piece too. My late father, who passed away in 1994, was a Church of England vicar. He very much liked his sacred music and especially the hymnal. He had started life as a piano tuner and ultimately ended up maintaining and building organ pipes for the church organ in the village church where he was vicar. So when I used to play this in the car, he was quite appreciative of it, enjoyed the pipe organ, and sang along in the "Green Hill" section.
Being a vicar's son, I of course was compelled to attend church on a Sunday morning. I no longer have the faith I once had, but the good memories of community spirit linger, along with some of those beautiful hymns.
And hearing this always takes me back to listening to it with my dad, so as well as just being my favourite Wakeman piece for all its power and dynamics, it also holds special memories for me.
I've had the pleasure of visiting Vevey on more than one occasion and made a special pilgrimage to St Martin's church to see where this and the pipe organ part from Yes' Awaken were recorded. (around the same time).
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and analysis of the piece, Doug. 👍
The sound of Rick’s Moog can cut through concrete. Legendary musician and raconteur who’s back catalogue is often criminally underrated.
It's the same church organ and choir that appeared on Going For the One. Criminal Record was recorded at the same studio, Mountain Studios, in Montreux, as that album straight after.
Veyvey. Switzerland, Rick is a Master❤ I know he's Classically trained, but just amazing to watch him play many times. I'm very lucky.❤
AWAKEN
Yep. But the sound is a lot better on Rick's record. Think they used a phone line to get some of the pipe organ tracks on tape for the Yes album.
I also recalled that. Ash. Funnily enough I have been listening to Going for the One a lot recently. What a great sound on Judas Iscariot. Excellent review, Doug. Thank you.
Criminal Record is my favourite Rick Wakeman album. My daughter chose The Birdman Of Alcatraz as the tune for our father-of-the-bride dance at her wedding 🙂 Yes, I cried🙂
Hard to figure out how to dance to that track. It's not danceable at all!
@@simonal1989 I realized that it is 4/4 with some exceptions :-)
It's my favourite RW album too - I'm really sorry not to have been able to get it on CD, now I have no turntable any more...
I paid through the nose and bought a Japanese import. Essential for Judas and Birdman.
One of my favourite Wakeman albums along with 1984, Preludes to a Century, Out There, and the 2014 re-recording of Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Wakeman, of course, noticed something very similar in Phantom of the Opera. He said something to the effect of, "Either Webber stole it from me, or I stole it from him ten years before he wrote it!" Classy man, that he is, let it go from there. No lawsuit or fuss.
Both Andrew and Rick did many pieces with Tim Rice as well.
interview?
@@user-mq5dr1jh5t I saw it well over a decade ago and do not recall who he was talking to or when it took place but I wish I could find it again!
To be fair, that part sounds a lot like Pink Floyd's Echoes, which came out 6 years earlier.
King Arthur and the knights of the round table is my favourite Rick wakeman album,I hope you do a video on that masterpiece Doug,it's truly amazing.
Merlin the magician is my favourite
The entirety of "King Arthur" will always be my second favorite of RW's works for me, coming second only to "Judas Iscariot" from "Criminal Record". Those records saved my teenaged life back in the 70's, quite literally.
The movie is fantastic aswell❤😊
Yes! Or... Journey to the center of the Earth
For those who love the progressive sounds of 70's bands the great Rick Wakeman is one of the greatest keyboardists of all time. He still haunts those who listen to his fabulous records, recorded at different times. Great English genius. 🇬🇧 ♥️ 🇧🇷
Rick Wakeman is a master of his craft…i was 14 when i first saw him perform live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1976 with the English Rock Ensemble having been blown away 3 years earlier when i heard Six Wives for the first time. I have seen him and met him on a few occasions…he is special and just 6 weeks ago i saw him again at the London Palladium…he is still rocking and creating…the guy is a legend ❤️❤️
I was at that Palladium gig, loved the way he introduced Adam - very Rick. First saw him on the Yes CTTE tour, which I think was in 73.
The same pipe organ is on Awaken and Parallels on "Going for the One."
Jon kept him company with his harp and tambourine in Saint Martin's Church. There are a couple short videos of them warming up on what looks like a sound check. I did hear a tambourine just before There Is A Green Hill Far Away part. I bet that was Jon.
Thank You Doug For doing this, it’s been a long time favorite album From Rick Wakeman! Since its original release 👌
It’s amazing : we started to listen Progressive Rock … and then : pipe organ and classic music ! Thanks to Rick Wakeman !
Hugs from Brazil 🎉
Anne of Cleves on Six Wives of Henry VIII is a BANGER. The drums and bass...and keys. Good lord.
One of the greatest keyboard album in entire Prog Rock History !!!
My guess is that Rick wrote out the choir parts using his Mellotron choir voices, which are all Ooooos and Aaaaaas, and then decided to use a real choir for the recording. Rick played organ in his church as a teenager for years, so he is no stranger to pipe organs or choirs.
Sir Richard Wakeman I am glad you have seen him live on solo tour and with Yes. Genius.
One of the greatest albums of all time!!!! A masterpiece!!! Thank you Doug!!!!!!
Greetings from Satolep
Every Good Friday I used to listen to this together with Simple Mind's East At Easter. I now add Tull's Passion Play to this list. Bought Criminal Record aged 17. Awesome after all these years.
For a full album please do Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth. It is just what it sounds like, a musical retelling of the story. One of my favorite albums ever.
Yes
Rick Wakeman's pipe organ on 'Awaken' is also awesome.
Rick Wakeman, Rick Wright and John Lord. The keyboard masters in my opinion.
Also Tony Banks
@@jayantagiovanniAnd Kerry Minnear
I cannot help but be transported to 1977 hearing this. Altered state, putting this on the turntable and slipping on my high end Pioneer cans. Being lifted and carried away by this music feeling physically exhausted, emotionally drained yet exalted by the listening.
What major label would even consider this today?
Listening today, the effect of the piece remains the same. Stunning.
Altered States starring William Hurt is a great movie. 1980 sci fi horror.
What a great reaction to a truly gifted musician. I started off with Yes, then quickly realised each member were able to do their own projects as well. I have enjoyed all his solo offering, of which there are quite a few. How people like Rick keep on producing such quality music is just baffling to me. It's good to see someone who knows the mechanic of music so well, to appreciate it for what it is. I hope you do at some point do some more of his work.
Patrick Moraz' solo debut "The story of i" (1976; the title was originally just "i" or rather his personal logo, to the despair of record shops ;) ) is an amazing album too, with great songwriting, playing and rich, fabulous Latin-influenced arrangements by the m,an himself - who had worked with a Brazilian ballet troupe as their music director and in-house pianist/keyboardist for around eighteen months before he moved to the UK). Superb - none of the other Yes guys are on it but instead a great deal of French and Brazilian musicians, John McBurnie on kead vocals (very good), Andy Newmark and Alphonse Mouzon on drums (both superb!) and of course Moraz himself playing spectacular jazz/prog rock keyboards.
I first heard it around the same time as first hearing Relayer (around 1980) and it was an immediate favourite with me...Moraz' later albums are sometimes an uneven bunch (his keyboard playing is always interesting though) but this one album is a standout. It won the "Keyboard Album of the Year" award for 1976, quite deservedly.
Your chain is clearly the only one where we can listening to this sort of music, thanks !
Isn’t it something that you have these phenomenal English composers in this century (Wakeman, Emerson, Wright, & Jones)? That just dawned on me this morning.
I'd recommend Alan Parson's Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - The whole album is a wonderful experience! ✨
Arthur Brown killed it on that record
Six wives for me is the zenith of Ricks solo work. The musicianship throughout is excellent not like the Red planet where it sounds like they are using a drum machine and there are so many missed oportunities for soloists to excel. I think when all the members of YES clicked they were outstanding. This piece for me was a foray into what could be done.
I utterly agree. There is a raw energy in 'Six Wives' that is just not there any more.
Rick is indeed a musical genius.
Correct, the hymn is 'There Is A Green Hill Far Away and the first verse is 'There is a green hill far away, without a city wall, where the dear Lord was crucified, who died to save us all' and I used to sing it every Easter at school in the UK
Many thanks Doug for listen to our suggestions and include this masterpiece in your channel.
As well as a gifted player and composer, he's also a brilliant arranger.
Awesome Doug and thanks for listening to the request!!
One of my favorite reactions from you!!! I think I've even sent you a message about this piece in the past. This is my all-time favorite thing Rick Wakeman has ever done. I love how you heard the Phantom similarity (and Floyd). Personally, I always thought ALW stole the concept from Wakeman. So glad you loved this!!
Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record is a Huge Favourite of Mine👍
I'm there right with you. Birdman of Alcatraz is my favorite of Rick's, Judas Iscariot is outstanding, and yet I think the other side of the LP is even better.
Rick explains in his Grumpy old picture show ( dvd) that he went to a performance of Phantom, and heard a bit of his Judas Iscariot. He said did I nick that from Phantom? No, I wrote my Judas Iscariot 9 years earlier. Here: ruclips.net/video/eCXIzrqG5j8/видео.html and Yes Doug, they actually sing there is a green hill far away in this version. Thank you Doug for posting this!
Church organs are fabulous in their sound... the echo provided by the walls of a cathedral is fabulous and unique from monument to monument.
Lots of great stuff on this album.
In 1993, before e-commerce was a thing and Rick Wakeman's solo albums (beyond Six Wives and Journey to the Centre) were impossible to get in the USA, I bought a CD of Criminal Record on my first trip to the UK. One of my favorite albums (certainly my favorite of Rick's) and this is my favorite track from it. I was delighted to see this pop up in my RUclips feed yesterday!
Rhapsodies was the last A&M release, then nothing in the US.
Always a favorite of mine, Judas Iscariot! What an amazing, overwhelming, terrifying, inspiring piece of music! Rick Wakeman is great, especially his solo work! (The choir was used as another instrument.)
Great to see you review his work. Rick is a lovely guy. My fav concert was Henry at Hampton Court with Brian Blessed doing narration!
When Rick is playing a pipe organ, it is always sublime. Throw in his utter mastery of the MiniMoog and there you have it.....
Doug you should give Vangelis a listen. Soil Festivities, Voices, Mythodea, Heaven and Hell and others really good albums
Love Rick Wakeman, my favourite keyboard player and a really funny guy!
Awesome! When I met Rick I asked him about the making of this album, and he said that Chris and Alan from Yes did their parts after his were already recorded.
What they put down was so good, Rick wanted to go back and change some of his parts accordingly, but the budget had run out and ran out of time.
Now I have to go buy it.. I've had the Six Wives of Henry the Eighth in my playlist for years and sadly never branched out to his other works. Thank you for this upload.
You really, really, REALLY need to hit Wakeman's catalog, roughly pre-1984. And that includes the album "1984". Criminal Record is as tight and meticulous as Six Wives, but with grander compositions and more Squire and White.
I've just recently bought this on vinyl. The whole album is just incredible
I was introduced to this album in 1984, it’s been my favorite from Rick ever since. So damn good.
Hymn sounded like refrain from Jerusalem to me. Rick's organ work with the moog always jaw dropping to me.
Watching Doug listening to music reminds me of my experience listening to Clannad’s Gaelic lyrics. I hear the sounds of the language but don’t understand it. There’s a deeper experience for Gaelic speakers. Doug understands the language of music and has a deeper experience whereas I just enjoy the sounds.
For Doug's "Relationships" series...
Clannad - Na Laethe Bhi - ruclips.net/video/7WtDt4cp8i0/видео.html
"Good-bye to the days, that were turning so lightheartedly...
I had a sweetheart from summer up to winter, my dearest love"
@@Ronnie1001 As beautiful as ever. I’m trying to remember context, perhaps a visit by Pope John Paul II, when the late Donny Macleod was commenting on someone singing in Scots Gaelic and said “It’s like hearing the language of God.”
you made me smile !
at 5 :42 you turned your head and delivered your verdict
I heartily agree
there's no faking that look without looking like you faked it lol ...that was for true
rick has so much work under his belt and is an inspiration to many , not just for his sterling musical work
I don't miss words at all. Neither here nor in most instrumentals (even those with choir).
Even in the classical world I love wordless choir or wordless soprano, as in the eerie Sinfonia Antartica by Ralph Vaughan Wulliams
I just LOVE Rick Wakeman. He was in my state a few weeks ago, with his final solo tour! He respected so much our country (Brasil) as no other international artist would come here in the beginin of the 70's, and his presence in a lot of towns, including Porto Alegre, the capital of my state, was something that change the live music in Brazil forever. And he was the keyboardist for Yes, Black Sabbath (few times), Ozzy (co-op and his son in tours), DAVID BOWIE (life on mars and space oddity) and the amazing solo career.
Never heard anything of Rick Wakeman I didn't like. So talented.
Echos (1971) - Judas Iscariot (1977) - Phantom of the Opera (1986)
When making the album, Rick recorded all of his bits up front and then asked Chris and Alan to add bass and drums after he had left the studio.
Allegedly, after listening to the tapes, Alan referred to Rick as a Charlie, Uniform, November, Tango, as there were no click tracks on the tapes because Rick did not like working with them.
If you listen the song "Awaken" from Yes' album "Going For The One" , the pipe organ is the same instrument, from Vevey, together with the trademark Moog synth like here as well.
From Wikipedia:
When Wakeman turned seven, his father paid for weekly piano lessons with Dorothy Symes which lasted for eleven years. She recalled that Wakeman "passed everything with a distinction" and was an "enjoyable pupil to teach, full of fun and with a good sense of humour", but noted his lack of self-discipline when it came to practising. In 1960, Symes entered Wakeman in his first music competition and he went on to win many awards, certificates, and cups in contests held around London. Wakeman then took up the clarinet at age twelve and in his teenage years, attended church and learned the church organ, became a Sunday school teacher, and chose to be baptised at eighteen.
Doug, you are providing the text he's providing the music! Wakeman is doing his part and you are doing yours! Both of you are great contributors!
I agree with you 100%! I am a fan of music and I love the organ and in particular: J. Lord, K.Emerson, R.Wright, T.Banks, (C.Carpenter) and Rick WAKEMAN.... The latter has a subtlety and an extraordinary degree of finesse! After each entry into symbiosis during these communions, I come out different, transfigured, it's very special! Thank you for bringing these monuments back to life for us! A seventythree-year-old Belgian music madman
Que maestria musical! Hoy ya nada de esto existe.. No hay publico contemporaneo que lo valore. Saludos!
Loved watching your response to this. Great music! Thank you.
A good one for Easter is Vangelis' track Heaven And Hell part 1. He also uses a choir sans lyrics.
One of Rick's finest solo efforts (IMHO).
Oh what a great music. Had not listened to Rick on a while
My favourite all time Rick Wakeman track.
Finally my Master shines here! Please more and more Wakeman.
Judas Iscariote is Amazing! Please 🙏. Put de studio release.
I really think you should do Journey to the Centre of the Earth,. Been waiting for more than 2 years.
Bought it when it was released, still listening to it.
Best album together with ytcoe
There Is A Green Hill Far Away - what I sang at my first public performance as a soloist aged 5 at The Harvest Festival at St. Peels Methodist, Thornaby in 1960
I hadn't heard this for decades. I used to have the vinyl but never re-purchased it in digital format. I found this piece to be the only one up to Rick's previous standards. I didn't remember it having so much classic synth involved. This is so much like his work with Yes and his very early solo work. Maybe I need to acquire the album again -- though I'm not sure I need to listen to the Breathalyzer thing ever again.
Wow! I have Criminal Record on vinyl, but it's been ages since I've heard it as I had no way to play it for many years. I need to revisit it. Notice the album title is "Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record". That's a bit of Rick's humor for you. I only just discovered yesterday that Rick has a new album out (since February 2023) called A Gallery of the Imagination. The way Rick talks about it, the album should be fantastic. I'll definitely buy it soon. I bought The Red Planet back 2021 and was not disappointed. It's the same musicians on the new album with the addition of with the addition of Hayley Sanderson singing on some of the tracks. I think she's one of the best singers that he's worked with over the years from the excerpts that I heard. Though I like his vocals on some songs here and there, I'm not a huge fan of Ashley Holt. Rick Wakeman's solo career far outweighs anything he's done with other bands in sheer quantity. I'm pretty sure that he has more than 80 solo works to date. I have many, but probably only about 25% of his total works.
I'll close with saying that I am very thankful that I got a chance to meet and talk to Rick during his 1993 acoustic tour. He's a wonderful guy. He was working off of about 4 hours of sleep and it was about 11pm and he still had an interview to do. Nevertheless, he spoke with fans for about 30 minutes after his performance. That was very gracious of him as I am sure that he was exhausted.
wonderful ! i hope you make a video for the "Statue of justice" a masterpiece!
It's on my Patreon!
@@Doug.Helvering And it's awesome. Why did I take so long to join?
Dear Doug, thank you for your video on this magnificent piece. There's not much I can't tell you about "Judas". I became obsessed with it when I first heard it (when I was much younger!). I'd only been learning the organ for a few years back then, and hearing Rick use the instrument so well here, along with one of my favourite synths, and percussion instruments was electrifying.
If I'd known that you were going to do this, I would have sent you my transcription of the score 😁. Anyway, if you're interested in hearing it again, here's my performance of it
ruclips.net/video/VzkEVdopihw/видео.html
It'll never be as good as Rick of course, but it was a labour of love. Footnote: a few years after I made this, I was able to visit Switzerland where I spent a few days in Vevey, and spent an afternoon playing that same organ in St. Martin's ... that's one bucket list item ticked!
Your performance in that video is awesome. Bravo !
@@eduardovallepinheiro8981 Many thanks.
The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth.
Wakeman is genius bought this album 1975
I think
this album is fantastic all the tracks
Seen rick over 20 times in concert
Check out bird man of alktraz
5 layer piano
You are correct is
green hill far
away hymn
The pipe orgen I believe was recorded in Switzerland
There is no one better than Rick wakeman
He brings me to tears when listening to him play
The two churches you mentioned are in Montreux (rec. the choir) and in Vevey (rec. the church organ). They are both small cities at the Lake of Geneva in Switzerland. Among different reasons Rick Wakeman was there because Yes was there too. And Montreux is famous for its musicfestival. The story of the whole album is pretty interesting, it's easy to fnd in the net. Criminal Record to me is beside "The six wives..." the best album of Rick. Thank you for your choice!
Another great tune by Wakeman. A genius!!!!!
Nice this is rad! You should totally check out more of Wakeman's solo stuff! A reaction of his entire "King Arthur" album would be amazing.
There is a Green Hill far away, without a city wall, where our Dear Lord was crucified, He died to save us all.
St. Martin’s Church in Vevey is also where he recorded Awaken, using Swiss phone lines to connect to the studio in Montreux. Yeah, he phoned it in.
Rick played the Church Organ at St. Martin Church in Vevey Switzerland. I believe this was recorded after the Yes "Going for the One " sessions in 1976. Thank you for sharing this treasure piece of music. 👍
I've always wondered if the score for ALW's Phantom did not borrow this. I'm glad you heard it as well.
Walked into a bookstore selling dodgy second hand records back in early eighties. Got this because I loved six wives. Knocked out. Did some flaky ones back then too but still listen to this
I've played this on every Good Friday fòr years. Alongside Simple Mind's East at Easter. And recently, Tull's Passion Play.
Very under rated album just brilliant
Can’t believe I missed the live😊
MORE Rick Wakeman Please
This is great
An interesting note, Rick being ambidextrous, had his piano strung BACKWARDS. On stage he was surrounded by keyboards and at times he would be playing the one in front of him and behind him at the same time. He's a musical genius!
This is so emotional piece what Rick written ;-)
Some people are enlightened and pass into our lives offering the best side of them. Wakeman was one of them.
Still is.
This is amazing
Wakeman is not only a good player, but a poet using keyboard sounds...
My other Rick suggestions would be: Off that same album, 'Crime of Passion', 'Statue of Justice' and 'Chamber of Horrors'; From other albums, 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'; 'Catherine Parr' [live]; 'Anne Boleyn'; 'Merlin the Magician' [but from the live in Buenos Aires concert, where he does a keyboard dual with his son, Adam]; from 'Return to the Centre of the Earth', 'Buried Alive' [Featuring Ozzy Osbourne on vocals].
My favourite Rick Wakeman album.
Thank you!
One Of Rick's most monumental Pieces... Betrayal, Tragedy suffering and death against a background of the Crucifixion. Rick is a classically trained concert pianist. Judas was written around the time that he became a believing Christian follower of Jesus Christ.