Michael Hopp¿¿: Solace

by Michael Hoppe

Overview

Michael Hoppe's exceptional, award-winning album offers a profound emotional voyage from the first song to the last, gliding from one heartfelt piece to the next with stunning, effortless transitions. With the aid of the Prague Symphony, Hoppe creates a sense of an elevated consciousness without losing a shred of musicianship. Hoppe's fine compositional ear is the backbone behind his grand, cinematic aural storytelling. Like human life itself, SOLACE moves constantly forward, but is dotted with bittersweet moments that Hoppe sees as divine. The yearning, bellowing cello on "So You" builds into the pure, transcendent joy of "Renouncement," and comes to rest on a kind of ghostly, majestic finale with "The Parting," featuring Vangelis.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/08/2003
Label:	SPRING HILL
UPC:	0718795604227

Tracks

1. This Majestic Land
2. So You, for cello & keyboard
3. Romance
4. Lachrymosa, for soprano & keyboards
5. Beloved, for guitar & keyboards
6. Renouncement
7. Jude's Theme, for violin & keyboards
8. Nimbus
9. Elegy (for Joan), for cello & keyboards
10. Pie Jesu, for soprano, baritone & keyboards
11. Farewell, for viola, soprano & keyboards
12. The Parting

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Michael Hoppe   Primary Artist,Keyboards
Dwain Briggs   Primary Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Heidi Fielding   Primary Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Harold Moses   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Viola
Andrea Bauer   Primary Artist,Cello
Vangelis   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Keyboards
Martin Tillman   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Cello
Prague Symphony Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Kenton Youngstrom   Primary Artist,Guitar
Eugene Fodor   Primary Artist,Violin
Andrzej Bauer   Cello
Lubomir Havlak   Violin,Soloist
Adam Klemens   Conductor

Technical Credits

Steve Salani   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Michael Hoppe   Audio Production,Liner Notes,Cover Photo,Producer,Composer
Richard Bronskill   Orchestration,Arranger
Bryan Kearney   Executive Producer
Heather M. Ardia   Graphic Design
Rebecca Hoppe   Photography
Vangelis   Arranger
Bill Horwedel   Art Direction