Themes and Dreams is an odd mixture of new age-flavored pop (think the ubiquitous Pure Moods comp), adult contemporary, and television soundtrack music that falls somewhere in between those categories. Of the former, we have
Enigma's "Return to Innocence,"
Yanni's "Aria," and
Deep Forest's "Deep Forest"; there's material by
Fleetwood Mac,
Eurythmics,
Santana, and
Leon Redbone, plus smooth sax instrumentals by
Candy Dulfer and
Kenny G. There are also soundtrack compositions by
Clannad,
Angelo Badalamenti,
Jan Hammer,
Ennio Morricone,
Hal Lindes, and
Geoffrey Burgon, among others. All in all, a strange and somewhat incoherent idea for a compilation.