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Steve Hackett Midsummer Night's Dream Release Date: 1997 04 01 Running Time: 62:27 Label: EMI Music Distribution Ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett steps into Anthony Phillips territory on this classical instrumental album inspired by the Shakespeare play, which grew into a CD-length suite recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The music is a hauntingly beautiful mix of Elizabethan, Romantic, and Modern influences, all of it highly melodic and very animated -- in contrast to most efforts in this vein by progressive rock musicians, the different sections don't loiter, and never luxuriate in their own beauty, but move forward, with well-defined and animated development, and very, very careful gradations of texture. The orchestra never overwhelms Hackett's guitar, and it is never used to hide less-than-interesting composition, because there isn't any of the latter. In all, this could be the most serious and compelling of all of Hackett's solo ventures, and one that justifies the whole field of progressive rock, if it got him to this point, crossing swords with Felix Mendelssohn et al. Bruce Eder, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Midsummer Night's Dream~The Palace of Theseus Hackett 2:47 2 Midsummer Night's Dream~A Form in Wax Hackett 4:40 3 Midsummer Night's Dream~By Paved Fountain Hackett 2:01 4 Midsummer Night's Dream~Titania Hackett 2:24 5 Midsummer Night's Dream~Set Your Heart At Rest Hackett 3:32 6 Midsummer Night's Dream~Oberon Hackett 2:31 7 Midsummer Night's Dream~Within This Wood Hackett 2:37 8 Midsummer Night's Dream~In the Beached Margent of the Sea Hackett, King 2:38 9 Midsummer Night's Dream~Between the Cold Moon & the Earth Hackett 2:45 10 Midsummer Night's Dream~Puck Hackett 1:53 11 Midsummer Night's Dream~Helena Hackett 4:22 12 Midsummer Night's Dream~Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mith & Mustardseed Hackett 4:28 13 Midsummer Night's Dream~Mountains Turned Into Clouds Hackett 4:37 14 Midsummer Night's Dream~The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet Hackett 4:15 15 Midsummer Night's Dream~Starlight Hackett 4:48 16 Midsummer Night's Dream~Lysander & Demetrius Hackett 2:45 17 Midsummer Night's Dream~Celebration Hackett 6:16 18 Midsummer Night's Dream~All Is Mended Hackett 3:15 Releases: Year Type Label 1997 CD EMI Music Distribution 1997 CD Angel Records 2007 CD Jvc Victor 2004 CD Inside Out Music

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