Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur & The Knights of The Round Table

This is another of Rick Wakeman's great concept albums. He has a strange thing about sci-fi and medieval ages, but thats all good to me! This album starts off with The Song Arthur, of course referring to King Arthur, after whom this album is named. It begins with a little spoken dialog, before beginning with an orchestral riff that occurs throughout the album, as an underlying theme. It continues with this theme with a variety of synthesizers and instruments (another thing I'm a sucker for) Next on this album is Lady Of The Lake which is a short piece (45 seconds) thats reminiscent of Gregorian chanting. Followed immediately is Guinevere, a soft synthesize/piano driven piece, relying heavily on the recurring riff mentioned above, and changing it slightly. Eventually this becomes the soft song with the whining guitar solo that every album seems to have, but again, thats fine with me.
Next up is Sir Lancelot and the Black Knight. This is hard to describe... Basically it's an orchestral driven piece featuring some great piano and synthesizer work. But it's an orchestra with some aggressive vocals, and really is kind of weird. It is still a lot of fun, and is one of my favorites from this album. (I love the synthesizer solo =D)
Then is Merlin The Magician, again with the Gregorian chanting, before going into a piano intro and then bass synth horn section, which I can't get enough of. It's just sort of magical... Which I suppose is good considering the name of the song.
Sir Galahad is sort of a mix between anyother prog song, with a weird tropical guitar/bell thrown in there... It's still pretty good though
The Last Battle is one of the best ending pieces you could ask for. It's almost a summary of the entire album. It has themes from every song, headlined by the recurring themes of the album, especially the main them thrown in by synthesizers and horns, both backround and foreground. This takes all the emotion from the album and throws it right at you.

I must say, if you are a fan of Rick Wakeman, you owe it to yourself to grab it. It's not as good as six wives, I'll admit, but It's still great!
Rating 9/10