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 | Title : Songs from a Secret Garden
Author : Secret Garden
Release Date : 19960416
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $16.98
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Editorial Reviews :
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.
Buyer Reviews :
Perfect candlelit dinner music. My husband and I often sit on the sofa running our fingers thru each other's hair, falling in love all over again as we listen. A seductive collection; as you're listening to this delicious assortment of classical/modern dream music you'll truly feel alive.
The haunting voice in the first song, Nocturne, will lull you into a free-floating state of being. As you continue to listen to such lovely pieces as sensual Sigma and sweet Adagio, you'll find yourself in another world. Your senses will spring alive to the riveting pulse of The Rap. And, to complete the enticing package, you'll end with the delicate Ode to Simplicity.
I strongly recommend buying this CD for yourself. I also recommend giving it to a new mom at a baby shower (it's wonderful lullaby music), to a newlywed couple along with a bottle of scented massage oil or to anyone who's ill. This is by-far the most stress-relieving and relaxing CD I've ever owned. Sure to become a classic among your collection. So, light some incense, slip into a fuzzy bathrobe and sip some wine as you slip away...
(by Kim O)
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