BEETHOVEN'S LAST NIGHT

While most people are familiar with this band from their Christmas albums, this was actual my introduction. The concept is a fictional story based around the composer Beethoven's fictional tenth symphony. With the concept revolving around Beethoven, naturally many pieces are based on his works, along with Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov. The original pieces are also interesting, and the musicians are good but do not show off too much other than in the occasional guitar solo. Most of the music is vocal oriented with a few instrumentals thrown in. While I do really enjoy this album, I feel like many of the songs could have been longer and developed more, as most of them are extremely short. My favourites are What is Eternal?, Requiem, A Last Illusion, and Mephistopheles' Return.