Steve Hackett - Shadow of the Hierophant Daily Doug

[Ash Armstrong]

He does tend to get hung up on lyrics, and approaches them too literally, but I think that's because of his background as a composer of choral music, and the texts he sets.
The end part of this track always reminds me of the last movement of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.

[Ash Armstrong]

The horn motif that begins about 1.15 into this final movement of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony. Legend has it that it was inspired by Sibelius seeing swans flying low over a lake in the Finnish forests.