A Midsummer Night's Dream [Enhanced]

Steve Hackett (Composer), Matt Dunkley (Conductor), Roger King (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Roger King
• Conductor: Matt Dunkley
• Composer: Steve Hackett
• Audio CD (February 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Inside Out U.S.
• ASIN: B00019JR36
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #500,720 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Palace of Theseus

2. A Form in Wax

3. By Paved Fountain

4. Titania

5. Set Your Heart At Rest

6. Oberon

7. Within This Wood

8. In the Beached Margent of the Sea

9. Between the Cold Moon & the Earth

10. Puck

11. Helena

12. Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mith & Mustardseed

13. Mountains Turned Into Clouds

14. The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet

15. Starlight

16. Lysander & Demetrius

17. Celebration

18. All Is Mended

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamy and Sublime - As Easy As Shakespeare Gets, November 5, 2004

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Lazy Daze (San Jose , CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Audio CD)

As a teenager in the UK in the 70s I was a rabid Genesis fan. Now I have grown into more classical tastes and I was not expecting this to live up to either genre. But I am surprised and delighted by this beautiful music. Steve's guitar playing is gorgeous and reminds me of Segovia playing the classics but somehow with more feeling if that's possible. The music exudes a dreamy magic and some of the themes, especially the orchestral ones representing nature (sea, mountains and clouds), are sublime, reminding me of my favourite parts of Vaughan Williams symphonies. Listening to this wonderful music is as easy as Shakespeare gets and grows better the more you play it.