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
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Songs from a Secret Garden
Secret Garden Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001GBJ Release Date: 1996-04-16 |
Tracks:
- Nocturne
- Pastorale
- Song from a Secret Garden
- Sigma
- Papillon
- Serenade to Spring
- Atlantia
- Heartstrings
- Adagio
- The Rap
- Chaconne
- Cantoluna
- Ode to Simplicity
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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 WoodCustomer Reviews:
Sounds A Bit Like M E H D I.......2007-07-06
ALSO RECOMMENDED: M E H D I ~ Instrumental Paradise Volume 8..A True Gem.
Violins and more violins.......2007-05-29
Songs From A Secret Garden.......2007-05-02
Soothing Music, Food for the soul.......2007-02-09
I enjoy MEHDl, Enya, Loreena Mckinnett, David Foster etc. But this a beautiful and rare production that I enjoy a tad more.
Beautiful & romantic Waltz music.......2007-01-23
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Sergej Larin - Rachmaninov Songs
Sergey Rachmaninov , Sergej Larin , Eleonora Bekova , Ben Connellan , Dave Partridge , Jonathan Rose , and Oleg Michegev Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000B1P Release Date: 1997-10-21 |
Tracks:
- In The Silence Of The Secret Night
- How Pained I Am
- Sing Not, O Lovely One
- Arion
- How Peaceful
- Do Not Believe Me, Friend
- Let Us Leave, My Sweet
- Spring Torrents
- A Dream
- All Was Taken From Me
- Daisies
- I Am Again Alone!
- Night Is Sorrowful
- O, No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave!
- Small Island
- I Am Not A Prophet
- Yesterday We Met
- They Replied
- Liliacs
- I Was With her
- Christ Is Risen!
- It Cannot Be!
- At My Window
- What Happiness
- At Night In My Garden
- Fragment From A. Musset
- All Passes
Customer Reviews:
Exquisite tenor singing and songs of incredible beauty.......2001-10-02
First of all, these songs require broader performance most of the time. They are passionate quasi-operatic works with a most evocative and sometimes melancholic atmosphere. Larin pours his heart and soul in these pieces. His tone is honeyed throughout, powerful when it opens up, but he also produce the most extatic soft tones when required. The wide palette of tone colouring is quite helpful to differentiate each song from the others and his care with the text is so amazing that, even if you don't know the text or are not Russian-speaking (as I am not), you won't really miss it, so powerful is Larin's ability to create the right mood. If you have any doubt, you should try "In the Silence of the Secret Night" - a most delightful song.
Last but not least, Eleonora Bekova is the amazing pianist who not only shines in the sometimes virtuosistic piano playing preditably required by Rachmaninov, but also responds sensitively to Larin's singing throughout. A nice example of interplay between admirable musicians.
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Glorious John
Manufacturer: Dutton Laboratories ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00002MXU0 Release Date: 2000-02-08 |
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Janácek: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs
Leos Janacek , Iva Bittová , ¿kampa Quartet , Vladimír Godár , and Skampa Quartet Manufacturer: Supraphon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00061X9YC Release Date: 2005-03-01 |
Tracks:
- Tuzba (Desire)
- Stst'/Steadiness
- Lavecka (Bench)
- Stesk (Woe) - Skampa Quartet
- Obrk Mileho (Lover's Likeness)
- Svatba Kom (Gnats Wedding)
- Kouzlo (Charm)
- Slib (Promise)
- Orisek Lovy (Hazel Nut) - Skampa Quartet
- La (Love)
- Jablunka (Apple Tree)
- Jabucko (Sweet Apple)
- Co Je to Za Nebe (What Sky)
- Safva C (Alderman's Daughter)
- Cervenab(Little Red Apples)
- Dobr(Good Hunt)
- He Warden)
- Kony Mil [My Lover's Horses]
- Kv MilodejnLove Herbs)
- Pcko (Posy)
- LoucenMilou
- Jindy a NynThen and Now)
- T (Uneasy)
- VzknMessage)
- Belegrade (Belgrade) - Skampa Quartet
- Milenec Vrah (Lover Killer)
- Pomluva (Calumny)
- LoucenParting)
- Sirota (Lonely Soul)
- Osamel Alone)
- Komu Kytka (For Whom the Posy)
- Z Od Mil (Love Shining)
- Polajka (Thyme)
- Kol(KolTown)
- Psano (Love Letter)
- Karafi(Carnation)
- Rozmarsemary)
- Pamy (Mementos)
- Zpevulenka (Tender Little Tune)
- Nejistota (Uncertainty)
- Kukacka (Cuckoo)
- Zahrcka (Fence)
- Muzikanti (Musicians)
- Vernost' (Faithfulness)
- Bolavlava (Headache)
- Osud (Fate)
- Daleko ProvdanWedded Far Away)
- Budk (Wakening)
- Dobrada (Sound Advice)
- Slzy echou (Tears of Comfort)
- Koukol (Corncockle)
- Kalina (Guelder Rose)
- Pohreb Zbojnv
Customer Reviews:
Moravian songs, via Janacek, Godar, Bittova and Skampa.......2006-05-09
Skampa Quartet is great - the singer... yikes.......2005-07-28
The recording quality is not very good, either. On many of the tracks, Iva seems to be muffled and in the background of the recording.
Really - dont waste your time and money, unless you really would just like to have a recording of over 50 Janacek songs.
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Halcyon Days: A Treasury of British Light Music
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000Y37NI Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Lento, Ma Non Troppo
- Gaily, But Not Quick
- Cantilena
- Vivace
- Miss Melanie
- Raf March Past
- Very Slow
- Maestoso; Alla Marcia Funebre
- Fairly Slowly, But Evenly Flowing In Strict Time
- Allegretto Rubato
- Overture, Op.52
- Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
- Country Dance: Allegretto E Leggiero
- Burlesco: Allegro
- Adagio
- Sarabande: Maestoso
- Bourree: Vivace
- Rondo In A Flat
- Allegro
- Lento Moderato
- Con Brio
Tracks:
- March
- Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture)
- Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square
- Tower Hill
- The Horse Guards, Whitehall
- Rotten Row
- Covent Garden
- Westminster
- Knightsbridge March
- No.1 Wheatly Processional
- No.2 Constant Billy
- No.4 Jockie To The Fair
- No.5 Ladies Of Pleasure
- No.6 Princess Royal
- Malltraeth (Pastorale)
- Cemaes (Scherzo)
- March Of The Bowmen
- City Of Lincoln March
- Overture, Op.3
- Londonderry Air
Tracks:
- The Devil's Galop
- Sailing By
- High Adventure
- The Watermill
- Loch Laggan
- Psalm 23 - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
- Southern Rhapsody
- Ecce Homo - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
- Girls In Grey
- Halcyon Days
- March Glorious
- An English Overture
- Spitfire Prelude And Fugue
- Carry On Suite
- Carry On Up The Khyber
- Andante Expressivo
- The Dam Busters March
- Tarka The Otter
- The African Queen
Tracks:
- Caramba
- Two Interlinked French Melodies
- Kanikani
- Preambule
- Barcarolle
- Provencale
- By The Sleepy Lagoon
- A L'ombre D'un Buissonet
- Triste Est Le ciel
- Allons Gay
- A Mountain Tune
- Tambourin
- Passepied
- Sarabande
- Farandole
- Petite Promenade
- Andante/Medium Beguine
- Song Dance
- Fado
- Kolo
- In The French Countryside
- Carpet Dance
- Slow Waltz
- End Titles
Tracks:
- Miniature Overture (Help!)
- March (When I'm 64)
- Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Can't Buy Me Love)
- Arabian Dance (It's For You)
- Chinese Dance (Ticket To Ride)
- Dance Of The Reed Flutes (She Loves You)
- Waltz Of The Flowers (From Me To You)
- Pas De Deux (All My Loving)
- Sarabande
- The Reception
- The Orgy (Rondo)
- Danza Gaya
- Scene 1
- Malaguena (Vivace)
- Habanera (Moderato)
- Tango (Vivace)
- The Hiring Fair
- Carousing
- Round Dance
- Pas De Deux
- Hornpipe
- March
- Doll's Dance
- Round Dance
- Bobby Shaftoe
- The Keel Row
- The 98th Jacks Listed!
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Rachmaninov Songs
Manufacturer: Conifer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000024EL Release Date: 1998-01-13 |
Tracks:
- Oh, Do Not Grieve
- How My Heart Aches
- A Prayer
- Night Is Mournful
- Christ Is Risen
- In My Garden At Night
- Do Not Believe Me, Friend
- We Shall Rest
- Vengeful God Has Taken Everything
- The Soldier's Wife
- Fragment From De Musset
- Child, You Are Like A Flower
- I Am Waiting For You
- Oh Do Not Sing To Me, Beautiful Maiden
- The Water Lily
- In The Mysterious Silence Of The Night
- Oh No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave Me
- Lilacs
- The Answer
- How Beautiful It Is Here
- How Long, My Friend
- A Dream
- All Things Pass Away
- Spring Waters
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