Across The Years By Michael Hoppé

Across The Years

By

Michael Hoppé

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

It seems like a life time, but Michael Hoppé has been in my life musically now for some 37 years, and ever since that release in 1988 called Quiet Storms: Romances for Flute and Harp I have been sold on this incredible man’s work and accomplishments, therefore I am even more delighted, if that is even possible, to be given a gift of writing a review for his latest work of art entitled, Across The Years.

Now I mention art work for this single as a place of importance as well, few now care for art work either on albums or singles, which is incredibly sad, but here Hoppé doesn’t just embrace it, he manifests a theme around it, one can with ease visualise the glider in question and perhaps a returning loved one that will land in it, I remember going up into the hills to watch the gliders as a young man, and I was always enamoured at their soft, smoothness of flight, and much can be said for this arrangement.

Across the Years is a symphonic delight, one that rises to kiss the sun, and drifts downwards to caress the clouds below. The harmony manifested by this most beautiful composition is both breath taking and deeply emotional, it hits the heart in the same way that Vaughn Williams used to do classically, and then manifests into a theme that would suit a Hollywood movie conclusion perfectly.

Across The Years by Michael Hoppé is that piece of music I have been waiting years for, a walk down the harmonic convergence of life in a grand symphonic way, and is without a shadow of a doubt, a piece that will be remembered as a timeless oasis of heart felt musical love, and with ease the best single that the composer has ever created, yes it moved me that much.