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Songs From A Secret Garden,Secret Garden

- Songs From A Secret Garden
- - 117,220 plays
  - 13 favs
  - 3 shares
Secret Garden
Released 1996

Adagio
02:55
9,821 plays

Pastorale
03:50
9,179 plays

Papillon
03:26
9,129 plays

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- 1
- Nocturne
- 03:13
- 12,582 plays

- 2
- Pastorale
- 03:50
- 9,179 plays

- 3
- Song From A Secret Garden
- 03:34
- 14,007 plays

- 4
- Sigma
- 03:08
- 8,266 plays

- 5
- Papillon
- 03:26
- 9,129 plays

- 6
- Serenade To Spring
- 03:15
- 8,863 plays

- 7
- Atlantia
- 02:59
- 7,932 plays

- 8
- Heartstrings
- 03:25
- 8,274 plays

- 9
- Adagio
- 02:55
- 9,821 plays

- 10
- The Rap
- 02:34
- 6,791 plays

- 11
- Chaconne
- 03:27
- 7,702 plays

- 12
- Cantoluna
- 03:32
- 7,357 plays

- 13
- Ode To Simplicity
- 03:52
- 7,317 plays

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album review

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, All Music Guide