Songs from a Secret Garden [30th Anniversary Edition]

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:	06/06/2025
Label:	Decca
UPC:	0602475827153

Tracks

1. Nocturne [Remastered 2025]
2. Song From A Secret Garden [Remastered 2025]
3. Pastorale [Remastered 2025]
4. Sigma [Remastered 2025]
5. Papillon [Remastered 2025]
6. Serenade To Spring [Remastered 2025]
7. Atlantia [Remastered 2025]
8. Heartstrings [Remastered 2025]
9. Adagio [Remastered 2025]
10. The Rap [Remastered 2025]
11. Chaconne [Remastered 2025]
12. Cantoluna [Remastered 2025]
13. Ode To Simplicity [Remastered 2025]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Secret Garden   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Davy Spillane   Guest Artist,Low Whistle,Uillean Pipes
Andrea Marlish   Harp
John Tate   Conductor
Bjorn Ole Rasch   Keyboards
Rhonan Sugrue   Soprano (Vocal)
Hans Fredrik Jacobsen   Whistle (Instrument)
Roland Lovland   Keyboards,Piano
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

Technical Credits

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