【Secret Garden】– Nocturne, Adagio, Song From A Secret Garden ...

 

秘密花園

Secret Garden is an award winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also understood by some as Neo-classical music.

Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland. The duo has sold over 3 million albums and won the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway's second time in 1995 with the composition "Nocturne". It was the first and only time to date that a predominantly instrumental piece has won the Eurovision Song Contest, although a few Norwegian lyrics, written by screenwriter Petter Skavlan, were included to ensure that the entry adhered to the contest's rules. Norwegian singer Gunnhild Tvinnereim sang the song in the Eurovision Song Contest, but is actually not a member of the group. Ten years earlier Rolf Løvland also co-wrote the song "La det swinge" (Let it swing) that secured Norway its first Eurovision Song Contest victory in 1985.

Their success at Eurovision spearheaded the success of their first album Songs from a Secret Garden. It sold a million copies around the world going platinum in Norway and Korea, gold in Ireland, Hong Kong and New Zealand and spending two years in the Billboard New Age charts in 1996 and 1997. Barbra Streisand adapted "Heartstrings" from this album as the song "I've Dreamed of You" on her A Love Like Ours album. She also used "Heartstrings" in her wedding to James Brolin.

The album White Stones followed in 1997 also making the top ten on Billboard New Age charts. Dawn of a New Century, again with lyrics by Petter Skavlan, in 1999, Dreamcatcher in 2001 and Once in a Red Moon also enjoyed success around the world including reaching top ten on the Billboard.

Their most famous song "You Raise Me Up", performed by Brian Kennedy, has been recorded by more than a hundred other artists including Josh Groban, Russell Watson, Westlife, Sissel, Becky Taylor, Celtic Woman, Lena Park, Robert Tremlett and Il Divo.

Secret Garden has released a Dreamcatcher: Best Of album for its tour through Australia and New Zealand in 2004. It reached the top of the Australian New Age charts and the ARIA top 50 album charts.

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• pictures for your eyes, and music for your soul :) -switchover- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 12:46:33

• 身未動, 心已遠... ... :)) -醉竹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 13:01:18

• 謝醉竹! 醉~~~了~~~ :) -switchover- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 13:45:42

• thanks~~ -switchover- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 13:46:36

• I like Secret Garden! 謝換換:) -qingqing-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 13:23:28

• 謝青青喜歡! :) -switchover- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 13:47:31

• 換鐵匠好多分店啊， 美貼美曲不斷，辛苦了，再問好！ -法國薰衣草- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 15:40:07

• 謝草草! 沒辦法, 一家店不夠啊 :), 也問候草草！ -換換~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 22:26:54

• 好悅耳，視頻也極美！謝換換！ -珊瑚-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 16:14:08

• 謝珊瑚! "秘密花園"的歌曲都很美, 這幾首是俺最喜歡的 :) -換換~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 22:29:29

• Secret Garden - Adagio有點神 -塵埃2.0- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 16:18:03

• 謝塵埃! 又去把Adagio聽了幾回, 美中不足有一處瑕疵 :) -換換~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 22:42:22

• 這個換的好！Secret Garden是我的摯愛 -rayray- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 21:34:36

• 謝rayray! 難得rayray喜愛, 好滿足啊~~ :) -換換~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 22:44:50