Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...

 The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...

, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages

The Soul Cages

The Soul Cages is the third full length studio album released by Sting. Released in 1991, it became his second No. 1 album in the United Kingdom. It spawned four singles: "All This Time", "Mad About You", "Why Should I Cry For You" and "The Soul Cages"...

.

This album contained two U.S. hits; "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 and "Fields of Gold" reached #23.

Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize

Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...

 in 1993. In 1994, it was nominated for five Grammy awards, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("If I Ever Lose My Faith in You") and Best Long Form Music Video. It did not win Album of the Year or Record of The Year.

A long form video featuring alternate musical performances and live versions of all tracks was filmed at Lake House

Lake House

Lake House is an Elizabethan country house dating from 1578, in Wilsford-cum-Lake in Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The gardens are Grade II listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest....

 and released in conjunction with the album. The video went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 1994 and was directed by Doug Nichol

Doug Nichol

Doug Nichol is an American filmmaker and commercials/music video director.He won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Sting’s Ten Summoner's Tales and also received two other Grammy nominations for work with Aerosmith and NKOTB. He has won several MTV awards including Best Rock Video...

 and produced by Julie Fong.

The 1998 re-release CD includes a bonus video track of "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You". It also features the song "Everybody Laughed But You", which was excluded from the original 1993 release in the US and Canada. The song did appear on the original release in the UK, Europe, Japan and other territories, and the "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" single. The instrumental track for "Everybody Laughed But You" was also used with an alternate lyric and released as "January Stars" on the "Seven Days" and "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" singles.

The cover of the album was photographed at Wardour Old Castle

Wardour Castle

Wardour Castle is located at Wardour, near Tisbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury. The original castle was partially destroyed during the Civil War...

 in Wiltshire, England, featuring Hrímnir, an Icelandic horse

Icelandic horse

The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from...

 Sting owned for a period. The album was recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London and mastered at Masterdisk, New York.

A different version of "It's Probably Me

It's Probably Me

"It's Probably Me" is a song that was originally released in 1992 as an all-star collaboration by Sting, featuring Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen and David Sanborn. It was released as a single and on the Lethal Weapon 3 movie soundtrack...

", featuring Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, was featured in the opening titles of Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 3 is a 1992 American action film directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo and Stuart Wilson. It is a sequel to Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2, and it is part of the Lethal Weapon film series.The movie is set in 1992, six years after...

. This version is available as a single. In 1994, "Shape of My Heart" was featured in the end credits of Léon

Léon (film)

Léon is a 1994 French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson...

, replacing Eric Serra

Eric Serra

Éric Serra is a French composer. He has often worked on the movies of Luc Besson.- Biography :Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just seven years old...

's The Experience of Love (a track that Serra eventually used in his 1995 soundtrack for the James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 film GoldenEye

GoldenEye

GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...

).

Track listing

All songs written by Sting except where noted.

1. "Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You)
   If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
   "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" is a song recorded by English singer Sting. It was the second single from his album Ten Summoner's Tales and was released in 1993. It achieved a moderate success in many countries, reaching #17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of his last hits in that...
   
   " – 4:30
2. "Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)" – 5:11
3. "Fields of Gold
   Fields of Gold
   "Fields of Gold" is a 1993 song by Sting from his album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Fields of Gold" and all the other album tracks were recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London, England and mastered at Masterdisk, New York. The harmonica solo is played by Brendan Power...
   
   " – 3:42
4. "Heavy Cloud No Rain" – 3:39
5. "She's Too Good for Me" – 2:30
6. "Seven Days
   Seven Days
   Seven Days is a science fiction television series based on the premise of time travel. It was produced by UPN from 1998 to 2001.The television channel Sleuth started syndicating all of the episodes as of August 2, 2009....
   
   " – 4:40
7. "Saint Augustine in Hell" – 5:05
8. "It's Probably Me
   It's Probably Me
   "It's Probably Me" is a song that was originally released in 1992 as an all-star collaboration by Sting, featuring Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen and David Sanborn. It was released as a single and on the Lethal Weapon 3 movie soundtrack...
   
   " (Sting, Eric Clapton
   Eric Clapton
   Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
   
   , Michael Kamen
   Michael Kamen
   Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
   
   ) – 4:57
9. "Everybody Laughed But You" – 3:53 (Excluded from original Canada/US releases)http://www.stingoop.com/disco/04tensum/tensummmoner_details.htm
10. "Shape of My Heart
    Shape of My Heart
    "Shape of My Heart" is the first studio single from the American pop band Backstreet Boys's album Black & Blue. Released in October 2000, the song debuted at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It reached number-one on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream chart...
    
    " (Sting, Dominic Miller
    Dominic Miller
    Dominic Miller is an Argentine-English guitarist who toured and recorded with World Party and King Swamp, worked on Phil Collins' solo album ...But Seriously and played guitar on every Sting album and tour since 1990...
    
    ) – 4:38
11. "Something the Boy Said" – 5:13
12. "Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)" – 3:39

French Bonus disc - five live recordings

1. "All This Time"
2. "Roxanne"
3. "The Soul Cages"
4. "Walking On The Moon"
5. "Fortress Around Your Heart"

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions
		U.S. Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	U.S. Modern Rock	UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
1992	It's Probably Me It's Probably Me "It's Probably Me" is a song that was originally released in 1992 as an all-star collaboration by Sting, featuring Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen and David Sanborn. It was released as a single and on the Lethal Weapon 3 movie soundtrack...	-	20	30
1993	If I Ever Lose My Faith in You If I Ever Lose My Faith in You "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" is a song recorded by English singer Sting. It was the second single from his album Ten Summoner's Tales and was released in 1993. It achieved a moderate success in many countries, reaching #17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of his last hits in that...	17	-	14
	Seven Days	-	-	25
	Fields of Gold Fields of Gold "Fields of Gold" is a 1993 song by Sting from his album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Fields of Gold" and all the other album tracks were recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London, England and mastered at Masterdisk, New York. The harmonica solo is played by Brendan Power...	23	-	16
	Shape of My Heart	-	-	57
	Love is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)	-	-	-
1994	Nothing 'Bout Me	57	-	32

Personnel

• Sting: Vocals, bass, harmonica, saxophone
• Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller is an Argentine-English guitarist who toured and recorded with World Party and King Swamp, worked on Phil Collins' solo album ...But Seriously and played guitar on every Sting album and tour since 1990...
  
  : Guitars
• Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
  
  : Drums
• David Sancious
  David Sancious
  David Sancious is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and...
  
  : Keyboards
• Larry Adler
  Larry Adler
  Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler was an American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin composed works for him...
  
  : Chromatic harmonica
• Brendan Power: Chromatic harmonica
• John Barclay: Trumpet
• Guy Barker
  Guy Barker
  Guy Barker is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra...
  
  : Trumpet
• Sian Bell: Cello
• James Boyd: Viola
• Richard Edwards
  Richard Edwards (musician)
  Richard Edwards is a London-based classical and jazz trombone player as well as composer/arranger.His professional career includes:* Numerous film, recording sessions, television and radio productions...
  
  : Trombone
• Simon Fischer: Violin
• David Foxxe: Narration
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
  : Pedal steel guitar
• Kathryn Greeley: Violin
• Dave Heath
  Dave Heath
  Dave Heath born in Manchester in 1956 and studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with William Bennett and Edward Beckett.Contemporary composer and flute player.-Compositions include:...
  
  : Flute
• Kathryn Tickell
  Kathryn Tickell
  Kathryn Tickell is an English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. She has recorded over a dozen albums, and toured widely.-Life and career:...
  
  : Northumbrian smallpipes
  Northumbrian smallpipes
  The Northumbrian smallpipes are bellows-blown bagpipes from the North East of England.In a survey of the bagpipes in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, the organologist Anthony Baines wrote: It is perhaps the most civilized of the bagpipes, making no attempt to go farther than the...
  
  , fiddle
• Mark Nightingale
  Mark Nightingale
  Mark Daryl Nightingale is an English jazz trombonist.Nightingale began on trombone at age nine, and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestrain his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985-88...
  
  : Trombone
• David Sanborn
  David Sanborn
  David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
  
  : Saxophone

Production

• Produced By Sting & Hugh Padgham
  Hugh Padgham
  Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won many awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers....
  
  
• Engineered By Hugh Padgham
• Assistant Engineer, Mix Assistant: Pete Lewis
• Mixed By David Tickle & Hugh Padgham
• Mastered By David Tickle

Shape of My Heart

The backing track of "Shape of My Heart" was used, in a slightly altered way, by rapper Nas

Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...

 on his song "The Message

The Message (Nas song)

"The Message" is the third and final single from rapper Nas' second album It Was Written. It is produced by the Trackmasters, who sample Sting's "Shape of My Heart" for the song's beat. The song features scratching provided by Kid Capri and lyrics about the life of a thug. "The Message" was only...

" on the 1996 album It Was Written

It Was Written

It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2, 1996 on Columbia Records in the United States. Following the moderate sales success of his acclaimed debut album, Illmatic , Nas chose to focus his efforts in a more mainstream direction...

. In the later 1990s and the 2000s, it became a popular sample in R&B and hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 songs, possibly inspired by Nas' usage. It has been sampled or interpolated in the following additional songs:

• "Take Him Back" by Monica from the 1998 album The Boy Is Mine
• "Release Me" by Blaque
  Blaque
  Blaque is an American Urban-R&B group that had a string of hits in the late 90’s. The group's name stands for Believing, Life, Achieving, Quest, Unity, Everything. Their debut album sold more than 1.5 million copies and was certified Platinum...
  
   from the 1999 album Blaque
  Blaque (album)
  Blaque is self-titled debut album from American girl-group Blaque. The album debuted #53 on the Billboard 200 albums chart where it went platinum.Their third single "Bring It All to Me" featured JC Chasez , and reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album also featured a cover...
  
  
• "Never Let Go" by Hikaru Utada from the 1999 album First Love (re-recorded instrumental)
• "Emotional" by Carl Thomas from the 2000 album Emotional
  Emotional (Carl Thomas album)
  Emotional is the debut album by R&B singer Carl Thomas, released on April 18, 2000 from Bad Boy/LaFace/Arista Records.Rolling Stone - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000"....
  
  
• "Ways of the World" by Lil' Zane from the 2000 album Young World: The Future
  Young World: The Future
  - Track Listing :-Samples:*"Ride On 'Em" contains dialogue samples from the film Menace II Society.*"Ways of the World" contains a sample of "Shape of My Heart" by Sting and Dominic Miller....
  
  
• Some live renditions of the 2001 song "Je Moest Waarschijnlijk Gaan" by Brainpower
  Brainpower
  Gertjan Mulder, professionally known as Brainpower, is a bi-lingual rapper, who writes, records and performs in both the English as well as the Dutch language. The Dutch audience mainly knows him as a Dutch language rapper. He was born in Belgium and grew up in the Netherlands. He started making...
  
  
• "Rise & Fall
  Rise & Fall (song)
  "Rise & Fall" is a song by British R&B artist Craig David and the third single taken from his album Slicker Than Your Average. The song, a collaboration with British musician Sting, returned David to the UK top five, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It was the biggest hit from the album...
  
  " by Craig David
  Craig David
  Craig Ashley David is an English singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Born to Do It, Slicker Than Your Average, The Story Goes..., Trust Me, Signed Sealed Delivered and a Greatest Hits album...
  
   from the 2002 album Slicker Than Your Average
  Slicker Than Your Average
  -Bonus tracks:-Other releases:Asian Limited Edition - Bonus Remix CD# "What's Your Flava?" # "Hidden Agenda" # "Hidden Agenda" # "Four Times a Lady"...
  
   (re-recorded instrumentals, and chorus sung, with new lyrics, by Sting)
• "Shape
  Shape (song)
  "Shape" is an R&B song performed by English girl group, the Sugababes. It was written and produced by Craig Dodds for the band's second studio album Angels with Dirty Faces , incorporating a sample of the 1993 recording "Shape of My Heart," co-written and performed by Sting and his guitarist...
  
  " by the Sugababes
  Sugababes
  The Sugababes are an English pop girl group based in London, consisting of members Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen. The Sugababes were formed in 1998 with founding members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan. Their debut album, One Touch, was released in 2000 under London...
  
   from the 2002 album Angels with Dirty Faces (included the original chorus vocals as well as the song's B-section)
• "Ways to Avoid the Sun
  Ways to Avoid the Sun
  "태양을 피하는 방법" is a song by Rain, released as the first single from his second album, Rain Vol 2. The single put Rain on the map in Korea, going to number one on the charts...
  
  " by Rain (2003) has a similar melody, which was probably inspired by this song.
• "I Crave You" by Shontelle
  Shontelle
  Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
  
   from the 2008 album Shontelligence
  Shontelligence
  The album has received generally mixed reviews from music critics.Ben Ratliffe of The New York Times gave the album a mixed review stating that:Alex Macpherson of The Guardian gave the album a mixed 3/5 stars stated that:...
  
  
• "For My Soldiers" by Pastor Troy
  Pastor Troy
  Micah LeVar Troy is an American rapper, actor, and record producer. He is also a member of the hardcore rap group D.S.G.B. .-Early life:Micah LeVar Troy was born on November 18, 1977 in Augusta, Georgia...
  
   from the 2008 album Attitude Adjuster
  Attitude Adjuster (album)
  Attitude Adjuster is the twelfth studio album by rapper Pastor Troy, released on February 19, 2008.-Track listing:-Samples:The fifth track "For My Soldiers" samples the song "Shape of My Heart" by Sting....
  
   (included some of the song's original chorus)
• By Lee Ritenour featuring Steve Lukather and Andy McKee on the 2010 album 6 String Theory Cover version.

Fields of Gold

• By Eva Cassidy
  Eva Cassidy
  Eva Marie Cassidy was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996...
  
   on the 1996 album Live at Blues Alley
  Live at Blues Alley
  Live at Blues Alley is an album by American singer Eva Cassidy, originally self released in May, 1996. This live album was recorded at the Blues Alley in January, 1996...
  
  
• By Mary Black
  Mary Black
  Mary Black is an Irish singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both folk and contemporary material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland, and in many other parts of the world....
  
   on the 1999 album Speaking with the Angel
• By I Muvrini
  I Muvrini
  I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language.-History:The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and Alain Bernardini who were born in the village of Tagliu-Isulacciu in the north of Corsica...
  
   in 2000, the English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
  -Corsican
  Corsican language
  Corsican is a Italo-Dalmatian Romance language spoken and written on the islands of Corsica and northern Sardinia . Corsican is the traditional native language of the Corsican people, and was long the vernacular language alongside the Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, which was...
  
   version "Terre d'Oru", featuring Sting himself
• By CJ Crew
  CJ Crew
  CJ Crew are a dance music DJ duo, consisting of Chris Bucknall and John Briely. Other aliases include Big Vin & Hugh Jardon, Chi K Monkey, Chi K Munki, Connie and the Plainsman, Demanche Noir, Muff and the Munchers, Nancy and the Boys, The Orff Ki Ensemble, Pyan Issim, Pynck Hobo, Terry and the...
  
   on the 2002 eurodance
  Eurodance
  Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
  
   compilation Dancemania Speed 9
  Dancemania Speed
  Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...
  
  
• By Mary Wilson
  Mary Wilson (singer)
  Mary Wilson is an American singer, formerlymember of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure...
  
   on her 2007 album Up Close: Live from San Francisco
  Up Close: Live from San Francisco
  Up Close: Live from San Francisco is a live set of standards recorded at the Plush Room in San Francisco in December 2005, and released as an album in 2007 by singer Mary Wilson.-Track listing:#"Here's to Life"#"Smile"#"Body and Soul"...
  
  
• By Jay and Abby Michaels - The Harper and The Minstrel (arranged for Celtic Harp and Female Vocal) from their 2008 album For A Moment.
• By Celtic Woman
  Celtic Woman
  Celtic Woman is an all-female musical ensemble conceived and assembled by Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance...
  
   soloist, Lisa Kelly
  Lisa Kelly
  Lisa Ann Kelly is a singer of both classical and celtic music. She has taken part in many musical theatre productions and concerts, and is a member of the musical group Celtic Woman.-Early life:...
  
  , on their new Songs From the Heart special on PBS.
• By Will Martin
  Will Martin
  Will Martin is a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer.Martin's first album, released in his native New Zealand, went platinum in 6 weeks. The album, called A New World, featured songs such as "Into the West", "If" and "Going Home".Will commented on his success with “I am an entertainer; I...
  
   on the 2010 album Inspirations.

Grammy Awards

|-
| style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="6"|1994 ||rowspan=3| Ten Summoner's Tales || Album of the Year ||
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|Best Engineered Non-classical Album

Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical...

 ||
|-
|Best Longform Music Video

Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video is an accolade presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally named the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality videos or musical programs...

 ||
|-
|rowspan=3|"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" || Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was awarded between 1966 and 2011...

 ||
|-
| Record of the Year

Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959.-History:The honorees through its history have been:*1959-1965: Artist only.*1966-1998: Artist and producer....

 ||
|-
| Song of the Year

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The Song of the Year is one of the four most prestigious awards in the Grammy Awards ceremony, if not in all of the American music industry. It has been awarded since 1959 and unlike the Record of the Year award, which goes to the performer and production team of a single song, Song of the Year...

 ||

Chart positions

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Album Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	9
Austrian Albums Chart	1
Canadian Albums Chart RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...	3
Dutch Albums Chart	5
French SNEP Albums Chart	2
German Media Control Albums Chart	2
Italian Albums Chart	1
Japanese Albums Chart	4
New Zealand Albums Chart	5
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	3
Swedish Albums Chart	10
Swiss Albums Chart	3
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	2
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Austrian Albums Chart	25
Canadian Albums Chart RPM Year-End RPM Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in Canada, based upon the RPM magazine charts during any given chart year.-RPM year-end number ones:...	19
Italian Albums Chart	4
Swiss Albums Chart	28
UK Albums Chart	17
U.S. Billboard 200	21

Certifications

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Chart procession and succession