Renowned British composer Michael Price, (Unforgotten, Sherlock, Dracula), has today released the original soundtrack from director Craig Roberts’ latest feature Eternal Beauty, starring Sally Hawkins.

The inventive and stylish comic drama presents a unique portrayal of the experience of schizophrenia. Price reunited with Roberts who recorded the soundtrack in Studio Two and The Gatehouse at Abbey Road, which was recorded and mixed by Abbey Road's Andrew Dudman, assisted by Paul Pritchard and mastered by Oli Morgan.

Price’s score, serves as a narrator to a character helping to guide us through the true highs and lows of Jane’s (Sally Hawkins) rarely uneventful life. Price’s signature sweeping strings, layered piano and delicate use of sound design, ensures that whilst the score drives the story forwards, it never distracts from the events happening on screen.

On writing the music, Michael Price explains: "Finding a musical voice for Jane was a little daunting at first. Craig Roberts' kaleidoscopic writing, and Sally Hawkins' blazing performance seemed to fill so much of the air around me, that the first few notes to emerge were tiny and bird-like. In fact, there is literally bird-song, an Irish nightingale, that stayed in the score, early in the film when Jane sits and feeds the pigeons in the park. That became a key to unlocking Jane's interior world, as did using snippets of her vocalisations, which became percussion instruments and stretched into more ambient pads. Once I had opened the door to her world, though, the music came tumbling out - rich, romantic, delicate and tender, and sometimes terrifying. All of it brought into life by the writing and performance, and the opportunity to celebrate Jane's "superpower", as Craig described it.”

Watch the London Metropolitan Orchestra in Studio Two perform the romantic orchestral theme, The End, taken from the Eternal Beauty Soundtrack.

On the recording, Michael Price recalls: "When we finally recorded the orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, I was touched to see that Craig had brought some of his family down to listen too. I think this is an incredibly personal film for him, and there was something about hearing the orchestra sounding majestic and noble, which seemed as if we had done musical justice to both the characters, and the people who had inspired their creation."

The Eternal Beauty soundtrack will be released on vinyl as a Dinked Edition exclusive to the Dinked network. The 16 track Première edition LP, is hand numbered on blue marbled vinyl and includes a signed risograph print postcard.

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