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Press release for TESS - The Album

8/12/2015

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New British musical TESS gets its first album recording starting Spring 2016.

The show, based on Thomas Hardy’s much-loved novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, is no stranger to the studio having already had three songs produced using talent from the West End stage.

​“It’s a dream come true”, says composer Michael Blore. “After years of planning, the entire show is going to be heard for the very first time. It’s hard to sum up how
​I feel, but thrilled is about right!”

Michael Blore
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TESS composer Michael Blore​ back in the studio in 2016

TESS tells the devastating story of Tess Durbeyfield, daughter of a poor villager who fatefully discovers that they may be related to the ancient aristocratic d’Urberville family. As she is sent to seek respectability with her new-found relatives, Tess embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey that will lead her to love, loss and ultimate tragedy.
TESS brings together Hardy’s iconic tale with Blore’s majestic score and an evocative libretto from the pen of award-winning playwright Michael Davies. Fully sung-through, in the manner of Les Miserables or Phantom of the Opera, it offers ​a bold and highly expressive retelling of this ever-popular, much-loved story.
 
“We are taking a path well-worn by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Produce an album before staging the show,” says Blore. “We just hope that formula works as well for us as it did for him. That would be the ultimate dream”.
 
You can find more information about the show, as well as follow the latest news on this recording project, at www.tessthemusical.com 
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