 | Best Classical Album of the Millennium
Buy used from: $21.96 Nothing opens like Sunrise from Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra
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 | Allegri: Miserere
Buy used from: $2.72 The Kings College Cambridge Choir Singing Gregorio Allegri's Miserere Mei, Deus is one of the only ways to follow Strauss - maintaining the glory but moving onto a theological footing!
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 | The River Flows: Anthology, Vol. 1 by Iona
Buy used from: $107.35 Song of the Waves is the sixth movement of the composite track, Snowdonia: Realm of the Ravens which, in turn can be found on the album entitled 'Dunes', which is part of this 4 CD box-set. Song of the Waves stays with the spiritual theme, but takes us into a Celtic mode of the ethereal.
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 | Caress of Steel by Rush
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.70 By now, it's time to up the tempo without bringing in too great a contrast. Lakeside Park from Rush's Caress of Steel album is a reflective piece that stops well short of hard rock. It retains a certain reflectivness, but adds in the nostalgic.
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 | American Garage by Pat Metheny Group
Buy used from: $7.73 The Search from Pat Metheny's American Garage both captures the true day-dreamy magic of the early Metheny, whilst at the same time linking perfectly between the previous rock track and the next more jazzy track.
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 | Finding Forrester (2000 Film) by Various Artists - Soundtrack
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.96 Bill Frisell's Under a Golden Sky brilliantly captures the feel of Bronx rooftops silhouetted against the evening sun - reflecting both the situatedness of Bronx life, but also the hope of moving beyond it. A Haunting track.
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 | Open Sky by Iona
Buy used from: $1.35 A Million Stars is the second beautiful moment from Iona on this compilation. It retains the haunting feel of Under a Golden Sky, but now one has definitely left the Bronx behind.
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 | Music of Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11/Orchestral Music; Leonard Slatkin by Samuel Barber
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.23 Adding tremendous passion and gravity to the mix, there can be few pieces ever written that match Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. It is almost impossible to imagine the listener remaining unmoved.
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 | Devil's Train by Eric Sardinas
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.74 Lightening the mood, but retaining a certain bluesy intensity, Eric Sardinas' track, '8 Goin' South', surprisingly follows the Barber piece very well - and also provides a transition into the rock genre.
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 | Save Yourself by McAuley-Schenker Group
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $18.74 Our second understated transition to the rock genre really only scratches the surface with Michael Schenker's short instrumental work, There Has to be Another Way.
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 | Sunmachine by Dario G
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.36 Back to ethereality as though the brief rock moments were only a tease, it's Dario G's turn with their superb track, 'Voices', which perfectly captures the youthful ethereal anticipative glow of paradisical infatuation associated with the film, The Beach.
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 | Play by Moby
Buy used from: $0.77 Following on from Voices on the sound-track from The Beach is Moby's beautiful track, Porcelain, which I suppose reflects the pristine character of the dream that the film attempts to capture.
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 | The Endless Jam by Schenker-Pattison Summit
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.97 Moving on from youthful infatuations to a maturer, more realistic bluesy feel, yet without losing hope that one day the dream may be recaptured - this is Michael Schenker's utterly transporting guitar work on Long Misty Days.
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 | Bill Frisell Quartet by Bill Frisell
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $7.44 Moving beyond realistic yet mature hopes towards the nihilism that threatens to overtake anyone who dares to dream when faced with situations like that of Jamal in the movie Finding Forrester, Bill Frisell's Coffaro's Way links beautifully back towards jazzy abstraction.
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 | Offramp by Pat Metheny Group
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.90 And where better for a sense of jazzy abstraction than Barcarole from Pat Metheny's Offramp? Barcarole somehow manages to move beyond simple melodies whilst at the same time retaining the feel of a new opening, a new movement.
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 | Watercolors by Pat Metheny
Buy used from: $14.76 Metheny's haunting Sea-Song takes a step back from primal beginnings to begin to bring melody back into the picture. But we are only halfway between mood and narrative - somewhere in the half-light of dusky ocean scenes.
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 | The Bodyguard by Whitney Houston
Buy used from: $24.82 The move towards narrative is complete in Alun Silvestri's theme from the film, The Bodyguard. A superb piece of music that captures some of the more intense longings of romantic relationships 'under threat'.
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 | MS 2000: Dreams & Expressions by Michael Schenker
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.13 Finally, we're ready for a full mood-shift into upbeat, joyous, driving rock. Yet, even here, with tracks 10 and 11 from Michael Schenker's Dreams and Expressions, we've withheld rock vocals.
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 | Strangers in the Night by UFO
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.85 The shift to rock emerges fully in the ballad from UFO, Love to Love, which brings back the vocals with Phil Mogg, but which also crescendo's towards what might be the greatest guitar-solo of Michael Schenker's career, and thus of all rock music. Truly, we have waited for the very end before finally casting off all restraints!
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