Secret Garden – Songs From A Secret Garden (Remastered 2025 / 30th Anniversary Edition) (2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Secret Garden – Songs From A Secret Garden (Remastered 2025 / 30th Anniversary Edition) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:26 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Classical Crossover
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music AS

The year 2025 is of the utmost importance for the Norwegian-Irish duo Secret Garden, because it marks the 30th anniversary of their debut single, their debut album and their Eurovision victory in 1995. Songs From A Secret Garden (Remastered 30th Anniversary Edition)“ will be released on May 16, 2025. Rolf Løvland and Fionnuala Sherry are looking forward to inviting fans old and new to relive the magic of their timeless music in 2025, a year that marks a milestone in the duo’s extraordinary career.This irresistible music – fusing classical and folk – was created by Norwegian pop composer Rolf Lovland (piano/keyboards) and violinist Fionnuala Sherry, who has worked with Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, Clannad and others. Featuring haunting vocal tracks (particularly “Nocturne”), this album evokes a variety of moods creating an unforgettable sound all it’s own. Target audiences include lovers of classical, new age and Celtic music (album to be worked at NAC and new age formats).

“Picture a square with Clannad, pianist David Lanz, Mannheim Steamroller, and the musicians of Riverdance at its corners. Somewhere within those stylistic borders you will encounter the European duo Secret Garden. The popular twosome–Irish violinist Fionnuala (fi-NOO-la) Sherry and Norwegian pianist/keyboardist Rolf Lovland–have attracted a sizable following with their heart-touching specialty: a wistful, violin-rooted, pop-folk-classical melange that often strikes the ear as a film score in search of some delicate romantic tale. Songs from a Secret Garden is the duo’s debut recording from 1995, and it principally offers a series of pensive dialogues between Sherry’s stately violin and Lovland’s subdued piano, yielding equal measures of sweetness and melancholy. Whistles, pipes, percussion, strings, and ethereal voices serve as embellishments. At times you may sense you’re being serenaded by strolling musicians with a heavy sentimental streak; at other times you may feel genuinely moved–perhaps by something as lovely as the reverential “Sigma” and its sublime, Gregorian-like choral passages. Only one uptempo tune, “The Rap,” surfaces here; a few others would have been welcomed. And yes, this is the disc where you will find “Heartstrings,” the composition that once smote Barbra Streisand’s heart. She eventually acquired the rights to the piece, inserted lyrics, renamed it “I’ve Dreamed of You” (found on A Love Like Ours), and sang it to James Brolin during the couple’s 1998 wedding.” (Terry Wood)

Tracklist:

1-1. Secret Garden – Nocturne (03:13)
1-2. Secret Garden – Song From A Secret Garden (03:33)
1-3. Secret Garden – Pastorale (03:48)
1-4. Secret Garden – Sigma (03:09)
1-5. Secret Garden – Papillon (03:26)
1-6. Secret Garden – Serenade To Spring (03:15)
1-7. Secret Garden – Atlantia (03:00)
1-8. Secret Garden – Heartstrings (03:23)
1-9. Secret Garden – Adagio (02:54)
1-10. Secret Garden – The Rap (02:33)
1-11. Secret Garden – Chaconne (03:26)
1-12. Secret Garden – Cantoluna (03:33)
1-13. Secret Garden – Ode To Simplicity (03:56)
1-14. Secret Garden – Nocturne (Norwegian Version) (03:10)

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