Mike Sheppard: The Soul Rests Eternal

It would be hard for anyone to top the humanity of Caroline Dale's interpretation. Nor her warmth, sonority and depth of tone, which just accentuates the music's sustained, almost heady emotion.... — Classic FM Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Nov 2010
Catalogue No: SIGCD232
Label: Signum
Length: 56 minutes

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Mike Sheppard: Prologue

Work length2:33

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Elegy for a Lost Son

Work length4:19

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Artemis & Orion

Work length3:53

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Despite the Falling Snow

Work length3:30

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Soliloquoy

Work length3:06

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Lullaby

Work length4:02

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: The Soul Rests Eternal

Work length5:32

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Tintinnabulum

Work length4:31

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: A Remark You Made

Work length4:49

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Hymnus

Work length4:02

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Ripples

Work length4:05

Mike Smith, Caroline Dale
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: An Ordinary Tuesday

Work length4:21

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Ellie's Theme

Work length5:11

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

Mike Sheppard: Epilogue

Work length2:13

Caroline Dale, English Chamber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell
English Chamber Orchestra
Steve Sidwell

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The Soul Rests Eternal is a unique new album of powerful, emotive music that has multi-faceted depths and an interesting human-interest story at every turn. 14 new works for solo cello and orchestra take the listener on a journey exploring the emotional landscape of grief, bereavement and loss, but also hope, faith, optimism and a celebration of life.

Caroline Dale (cello soloist on Dario Marianelli’s oscar-winning score to the film ‘Atonement’) was an instinctive choice as soloist, capturing the intensely soulful voice of the cello and exploiting fully the vast range of emotions encountered here. As Principal cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra, this CD presented another opportunity for the ECO to record again on Signum Classics, following their recent recording with harpist Claire Jones.

Conceived as an arts initiative, this album breaks new ground in that it offers an inspired way for the arts, charity and business sectors to work together, in this case serving to promote the Child Bereavement Charity, with which the composer had previously been involved.

This arts/charity/business initiative sees 20% of the music publishing rights assigned to CBC. This means the charity will not only benefit from record sales, but also from live performances, radio & TV broadcasts and sheet music sales as well as whenever the music gets used in film or TV. And because the charity will own its share for life of copyright, CBC will go on benefitting for 70 years after the composer's death. The charity will also enjoy a raised profile through the publicity generated by the album.

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March 2011

It would be hard for anyone to top the humanity of Caroline Dale's interpretation. Nor her warmth, sonority and depth of tone, which just accentuates the music's sustained, almost heady emotion. The ECO support her with playing that perfectly straddles the borderline between the earthly and the eternal.

May 2011

A prominent feature in Mike Sheppard's music is its strong neo-pastoral quality. Sweeping melodic shapes are underpinned by sumptuous modal harmonies which flow out of a lush lyrical bedrock...This may not be technically difficult music but it still requires thought and understanding. Dale manages to draw every drop of emotional energy from the instrument on "Soliloquy" [sic] and "A Remark You Made".

17th November 2014

This is not complex music; it is very filmic, full of melody but not challenging in any way. If you enjoy the music of Karl Jenkins and Jon Lord, then this will work for you...Describing this as soothing background music would seem to be denigrating it, but that is not my intention. I enjoyed it for what it is, and also for what it is not.

Mike Sheppard: The Soul Rests Eternal

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