Songs from a Secret Garden

by Secret Garden

Overview

Secret Garden is Norwegian composer Rolf Loveland (piano, keyboards) and Irish violinist Fionnula Sherry. The album, however, offers much more than this duo; it is awash in orchestral strings (real ones), a choir (real one), and as many percussionists, harps, fiddles, keyboards, and whistles as are needed. Songs from a Secret Garden, a chart-topper in Europe, is unabashedly romantic, absolutely gorgeous. "Sigma," featuring boy soprano Rhonan Sugrue and the Irish National Choir, is very pensive, like dried flowers left, an expected return disappointed. The lyrics begin, "I search for the sign that will set my soul free." Although Celtic music fans will find many moments of bittersweet nostalgia between the violin, pipes, and pennywhistles, the album's closest musical relation might just be the intimate works of Maurice Ravel, particularly his "Pavanne for a Dead Princess." Romantic themes of true depth, played full out. Secret Garden is not afraid of tenderness nor beauty. ~ Carol Wright

Product Details

Release Date:	02/14/2012
Label:	Psp
UPC:	4988005697462
Rank:	2492

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Secret Garden   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Davy Spillane   Guest Artist,Low Whistle,Uillean Pipes
RTE Concert Orchestra   Ensemble
David Agnew   Oboe,Horn (English)
Giovanni Marradi   Piano
Des Moore   Guitar,Mandolin
Noel Eccles   Percussion
Giovanni   Piano
Fionnuala Sherry   Violin
Jean Lechmar   Clarinet
Asa Jinder   Fiddle
Gunnhild Tvinnereim   Vocals
Roland Lovland   Piano,Keyboards
Rhonan Sugrue   Soprano (Vocal)
Hans Fredrik Jacobsen   Whistle (Instrument)
Andrea Marlish   Harp
John Tate   Conductor
Bjorn Ole Rasch   Keyboards

Technical Credits

Rolf Lovland   Producer,Composer
Giovanni   Performer
Conan Doyle   Assistant Engineer
Erik Avnskog   Mixing
Oskar Pall Sveinsson   Mixing,Engineer
Conal Markey   Assistant Engineer
Roland Lovland   Mixing,Arranger,Producer,Liner Notes
Scott Townsend   Design
Mick Hales   Photography
John Tate   Orchestration
Jan Erik Kongshaug   Mixing