Songs from a Secret Garden is the first international album by Secret Garden

Secret Garden (duo)

Secret Garden is an award-winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also sometimes erroneously known as Neo-classical music.Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland...

. It includes the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1995

Eurovision Song Contest 1995

The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy. This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994...

, "Nocturne".

The album achieved platinum awards in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. It stayed on the Billboard New Age chart for 101 weeks.

The track "Song from a Secret Garden" became famous in Korea by being featured in the drama 젊은이의 양지 in 1995. Another track from the album, "Adagio," was featured in the 2004 Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...

 film 2046

2046 (film)

2046 is a 2004 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It is a loose sequel to the 1991 Hong Kong film Days of Being Wild and the 2000 Hong Kong film In the Mood for Love...

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Tracklisting

#	Title	Length
1	Nocturne	3:11
2	Pastorale	3:47
3	Song from a Secret Garden	3:32
4	Sigma	3:05
5	Papillon	3:22
6	Serenade to Spring	3:12
7	Atlantia	2:56
8	Heartstrings	3:22
9	Adagio	2:51
10	Rap	2:31
11	Chaconne	3:25
12	Cantoluna	3:29
13	Ode to Simplicity	3:53

In Korea

In Korea, Serenade to Spring was given a lyric and is sung under the name of '10월의 어느 멋진 날에' which means 'One Fine Day in October'. A popular baritone in Korea, Kim Dong-kyu sang the song on TV and a few professional singers sung in duo.

Republish

In the December of 2010, Universal Music Group started to publish this album again in K2HD CD format by technology of K2HD by JVC. Since 100KHz 24bit sound signal is processed during remastering by K2HD technology, high frequency is highlighted, especially in the better sound quality of violin.

External links

• Listen demo album "Songs from a Secret Garden"