Beethoven's Last Night

1	Overture 2:56
2	Midnight 2:10
3	Fate 1:14
4	What Good This Deafness 1:46
5	Mephistopheles 3:43
6	What Is Eternal 4:39
7	The Moment 2:47
8	Vienna 3:32
9	Mozart 3:18
10	The Dreams of Candlelight 4:05
11	Requiem (The Filth) 2:58
12	I'll Keep Your Secrets 4:15
13	The Dark 4:23
14	Für Elise 0:41
15	After the Fall 4:34
16	A Last Illusion 5:26
17	This Is Who You Are 3:58
18	Beethovan 2:56
19	Mephistopheles' Return 4:25
20	Misery 2:44
21	Who Is This Child 4:33
22	A Final Dream 1:56

Barnes & Noble

Classical music and hard rock may not seem to go together like ham and eggs, but there's an uncanny similarity in the bombast, the swelling riffs, and the over-the-top attitude that's hard to deny. Paul O'Neill, the mastermind of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, grasps this and, with the help of former Savatage mainman Jon Oliva, weaves the two genres together with an ingenuity not heard since the heyday of Emerson, Lake & Palmer or the Moody Blues. This long and winding set is based around a fictionalized tale of Ludwig von Beethoven's deal with Satan and the mystery of his never-heard Tenth Symphony. To tell the tale, O'Neill and company intersperse theatrical rock originals -- highlighted by "What Good This Deafness" and "What Is Eternal?" -- with instrumentals culled from (or inspired by) the works of the master himself, including "Für Elise" and "Requiem." Beethoven's Last Night might seem like a bit of an oddity on paper, but in practice, it could slide comfortably between the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber and, say, the Broadway version of Tommy. David Sprague

All Music Guide

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's first non-holiday-themed album, Beethoven's Last Night, incorporates some of the composer's most noted pieces with original ones that peer into Beethoven's psyche. Pieces like "What Is Eternal," "What Good This Deafness," and "Last Illusion" update Beethoven's dramatic, portentous style, while "Requiem (the Fifth)" and "Fur Elise" lend themselves surprisingly well to the orchestra's stylized fusion of classical and rock music. Fans of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's other work won't be disappointed by Beethoven's Last Night's theatrical, orchestral song cycle. Heather Phares