Beethoven's Last Night
by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Type: Album
- Released: 11 April 2000
- Label: Lava
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:07
- Community rating: 3.08/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Denise Stillwell, Mark Wood, Sylvia Tosun, Dave Wittman, Paul O'Neill, Robert Kinkel, Danielle Landherr, Jody Ashworth, Al Pitrelli, Doug Thoms, Johnny Lee Middleton, Jeff Plate, Marni Elliot, Jonas Tauber, Chris Caffery, Paul Woodiel, Christian James, Garo Yellin, Jon Oliva, Guy Kemonnier, Mary Rowell
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Venturing outside their renowned holiday-themed material, the collective presented a sprawling rock opera conceptualizing the final hours of Ludwig van Beethoven. The project heavily adapts Beethoven's original compositions, integrating them directly into bombastic metal and hard rock instrumentation. It features an extensive cast of vocalists delivering a highly dramatic, theatrical narrative.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, melodic, orchestral, theatrical
Tracklist
- Overture (2:56)
- Midnight (2:10)
- Fate (1:14)
- What Good This Deafness (1:46)
- Mephistopheles (3:43)
- What Is Eternal (4:39)
- The Moment (2:47)
- Vienna (3:32)
- Mozart (3:18)
- The Dreams of Candlelight (4:05)
- Requiem (The Fifth) (2:58)
- I'll Keep Your Secrets (4:15)
- The Dark (4:23)
- Fur Elise (0:41)
- After the Fall (4:34)
- A Last Illusion (5:26)
- This Is Who You Are (3:58)
- Beethoven (2:56)
- Mephistopheles' Return (4:25)
- Misery (2:44)
- Who Is This Child (4:33)
- A Final Dream (1:56)
Credits
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - primary artist
- Steve Black - artwork by [cd cover concept], illustration
- Edgar Jernis - artwork by [cover], illustration
- Christian James - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Danielle Landherr - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Doug Thoms - backing vocals, vocals [the muses], background vocals vocal
- Guy Kemonnier - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Jody Ashworth - backing vocals, vocals [beethoven], background vocals vocal