''Metamorpheus'' is

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's 17th studio album. This classical album is the successor to ''A Midsummer Nights Dream''. ''Metamorpheus'' is an expression on Orpheus and his passage through the Underworld. The cover of the album was created by

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, the picture on the sleeves of the previous album ''To Watch The Storms'' also features the song "Rebecca". This album makes use of themes first used by Hackett in short pieces (only released as free MP3 downloads) for the soundtrack of the 2001 Showtime documentary ''Outwitting Hitler''.

Track listing

# "The Pool of Memory and the Pool of Forgetfulness" – 2:15 # "To Earth Like Rain" – 1:33 # "Song to Nature" – 3:02 # "One Real Flower" – 3:12 # "The Dancing Ground" – 3:02 # "That Vast Life" – 12:27 # "Eurydice Taken" – 1:48 # "Charon's Call" – 3:15 # "Cerberus at Peace" – 2:06 # "Under the World – Orpheus Looks Back" – 5:16 # "The Broken Lyre" – 3:17 # "Severance" – 3:05 # "Elegy" – 3:18 # "Return to the Realm of Eternal Renewal" – 2:56 # "Lyra" – 6:36

Facts

* This is the first album where limited copies of the Electronic Press Kit for the album were released for purchase on the Camino Records website.

Personnel

* Steve Hackett – guitars * John Hackett – flute, piccolo, orchestral arrangements * Dick Driver – double bass *

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– violin * Richard Stewart – cello * Sara Wilson – cello * Richard Kennedy –

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* Colin Clague – trumpet

Production

* Benedict Tobias Fenner – engineer * Roger King – engineer, mastering, mixing, orchestral arrangements * Jerry Peal – engineer, contribution * Harry Pearce – design *

– cover painting

References

{{authority control 2005 albums Steve Hackett albums Works about Orpheus