You Never Know By Michael Hoppé

 

You Never Know

By

Michael Hoppé

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

I have long been a fan of Michael Hoppé, in fact I used to start a show off years back with a track from his 2003 album Solace, and here we are some 22 years later and I am still enamoured and moved greatly by his manifestations within what can be called the Neo Classical genre. Today however, brings us a new offering called You Never Know and it is one of the finest examples that the aforementioned genre has to offer.

The subtleties of Hoppé’s symphonic creational masterpieces are something to always enjoy and lovingly behold, the early string sections remind me of the solace that Vaughn Williams brings to me, yet in the latter half of this piece there is an even deeper measure, as we feel the real honest depth contained within, that offered up in some way for me an example of the finest emotive classical styling since Dvorak and the New World Symphony.

Here on this glorious arrangement I believe that the always inspiring Michael Hoppé has brought into being a concluding symphonic narrative for a Hollywood movie, the build and progression contained within are easily the finest I have heard for years, and the coda one of the softest and sweetest there is. Listening to You Never Know by Michael Hoppé is indeed a panacea to cure all ills, and thus I can only see good things on the horizon for this blissful new single.