Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night
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Artist: Trans-Siberian OrchestraEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-04-11
Music Label: Lava
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Midnight
- Fate
- What Good This Deafness
- Mephistopheles
- What Is Eternal
- Moment
- Vienna
- Mozart
- Dreams of Candlelight
- Requiem (The Fifth)
- I'll Keep Your Secrets
- Dark
- F?r Elise
- After the Fall
- Last Illusion
- This Is Who You Are
- Beethovan
- Mephistopheles' Return
- Misery
- Who Is This Child
- Final Dream
Music reviews of Beethoven's Last Night
Music Review: I Am Speechless!
Rating: 5 Stars
I never heard of Trans Siberian Orchestra until about a month ago. In a Moody Blues group I'm in we were disgussing various types of music and TSO came into the subject. I was told about TSO and their music and was given a link for their website. Granted I have never heard of any of the people involved with TSO. So I checked out the website and read the biography and my curiosity went even higher. So I decided to order Beethoven's Last Night and even had it shipped priority international mail. There have been some great concept albums, albums that have told stories, and rock opera albums. Beethoven's Last Night left me speechless. I was totally blown away by the intensity of the music in this recording. I'm not much into Beethoven or Mozart. I've heard classical music played in different ways and loved some of it such as Isao Tomita's synthesized versions. TSO has taken Beethoven's and Mozart's music and have put a rock flavor into it that is unbeatable. The story behind this album is interesting although a bit sad. They have taken Beethoven's last night and brought to light the struggle he had between good and evil, although it might be fictional. Although Beethoven's 10th Symphony is quite controversial, TSO makes it sound as pure fact and real as if there was a real 10th Symphony. Patty Russo is one of the singers on this album and she has one beautiful voice and belts out, as do the others, her songs. I firmly believe that TSO would be crazy not to take this beautiful masterpiece and transform it into a broadway or West End musical. It deserves it and I'm sure it would be a massive hit. Whether you like classical music, of which this is only part, or not this CD is a must for anyone. I was left speechless and blown away by this beautiful recording. If you think The Who's Tommy or Quadraphenia were brilliant or the Moody Blues Core 7 albums were brilliant or even Pink Floyd's DSOTM, Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds were brilliant, then you are in for a massive treat with Beethoven's Last Night. This is the brilliant of the brilliant. You definately will not be disappointed and will be most overjoyed at the brilliance of this recording.
Description of Beethoven's Last Night
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 WoodHoliday CDs
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