Music CD
Track listing
1. Nocturne
2. Pastorale
3. Song From A Secret Garden
4. Sigma
5. Papillon
6. Serenade To Spring
7. Atlantia
8. Heartstrings
9. Adagio
10. Rap, The
11. Chaconne
12. Cantoluna
13. Ode To Simplicity
Album notes
Personnel: Rolf Lovland (arranger, conductor, piano, keyboards); Gunnhild Tvinnereim, Rhonan Sugrue, Irish National Chamber Choir (vocals); Des Moore (guitar, mandolin); Asa Jinder (keyfiddle, keyharp); Fionnuala Sherry (violin); Andrea Marlish (harp); Davy Spillane (Uilleann pipe, low whistle); Hans Fredrik Jacobsen (Norwegian whistle, whistle); Deirdre Brady (flute); David Agnew (oboe, cor anglais); Jean Lechmar (clarinet); Bjorn Ole Rasch, Jon Kjell Seljeseth (keyboards); Noel Eccles (percussion).
RTE Concert Orchestra includes: John Tate (conductor).
Engineers: Oskar P. Sveinsson, Andrew Boland.
Recorded at Syrland Studio, Reykjavik, Iceland; Windmill Lane Studio, Dublin, Ireland; Major Studio, Oslo, Norway; Puk Studio, Kierby, Denmark. Includes liner notes by Rolf Lovland.
Even if you've never heard the music of Secret Garden, you've probably seen the film, or rather, the countless films that tell tales of passion and unrequited love.
Secret Garden's soaring violins and elegantly spare piano work make their songs ideal for wedding ceremonies, but that isn't to diminish the group's potency.
On SONGS FROM A SECRET GARDEN, composer-pianist Rolf Lovland and violinist Fionnuala Sherry draw liberally, and often simultaneously, from their Norwegian and Irish backgrounds, whether on the spirited "The Rap," the delicately framed "Papillon," or the elegiac "Chaconne."
