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Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Beethoven's Last Night
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1373872
Disk length: 1h 9m 9s (21 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2000
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Overture | 2:56 |
| 2. Midnight | 2:10 |
| 3. Fate | 1:16 |
| 4. What Good This Deafness | 1:48 |
| 5. Mephistopheles | 3:45 |
| 6. What Is Eternal | 4:41 |
| 7. The Moment | 2:49 |
| 8. Vienna | 3:34 |
| 9. Figaro | 3:20 |
| 10. In The Dreams Of Candlelight | 4:07 |
| 11. Requiem (The Fifth) | 3:00 |
| 12. I'll Keep Your Secrets | 4:17 |
| 13. The Dark | 4:25 |
| 14. Fur Elise | 0:43 |
| 15. A Last Illusion | 5:28 |
| 16. This Is Who You Are | 4:00 |
| 17. Beethoven | 2:58 |
| 18. Mephistopheles' Return | 4:27 |
| 19. Misery | 2:45 |
| 20. Who Is This Child | 4:35 |
| 21. A Final Dream | 1:55 |
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Review
Trans-Siberian Orchestra's first two recordings, a pair of late-'90s Christmas albums, hinted that some day TSO might evolve into a latter-day ELO or even an ELP. Instead, this overwrought concept album shares more common ground with ALW (Andrew Lloyd Webber) or Meat Loaf. TSO, in fact, aims to retrace a path once traveled by producer Jim Steinman, the mastermind behind the theatrical, over-the-top rock opuses that briefly transformed Mr. Loaf and Bonnie Tyler ("Total Eclipse of the Heart") into mass-audience favorites. TSO ringmaster Paul O'Neill (once a guitarist in Broadway productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair) here ditches the holiday themes and instead scores a simple-minded fairy tale (whose text spans a 32-page CD booklet) that involves Beethoven's soul, the devil, and an imaginary Symphony No. 10. Too often, the music is the servant of the project's thin plot, and the rock-classical instrumental bravura that initially attracted public attention to TSO (at times, the group sounds like a symphonic Boston) is obscured by overheated vocal rantings. Meanwhile, the guitar-driven rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ("Requiem") is mundane. Yet, one vocal track, "After the Fall" with singer Patti Russo, jumps off the record as a Tyler-esque knockout, raging with emotion and melodic luster. It doesn't save the album, but it helps. --Terry Wood
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Tracks: 22 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 13m 10s (+4m 1s)
Tracks: 22 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 13m 10s (+4m 1s)
Tracks: 22 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 13m 52s (+4m 43s)
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