Elina Garanca - Meditation (2014)

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Title: Meditation
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Deutsche Grammophon B0021327-02
Genre: Vocal, Opera
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:11:42
Total Size: 365 MB
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El nas parents were involved with choral music, she grew up listening to this music and sang herself in choirs as a young musician, so it is a very important album to her personally, celebrating the origins of her own singing career

The album includes a couple of real discoveries like Prauli Dievaines, but also some hit repertoire like the Cantique de Noel d Adam. This is probably her most commercial album to date, the careful selected variety of the repertoire will attract a lot of new fans

Latvian choirs are extremely famous worldwide, so it was natural for her to want a Latvian choir with her for this recording

Two Latvian composers have been involved in the music for this recording U is Prauli for his work Dievaines, and Eriks Esenvalds who has written an a cappella arrangement (Allegri Miserere) especially for this recording

El na is joined on this recording by her husband, the well-known Gibraltan conductor Karel Mark Chichon OBE. This is their second collaboration on disc for DG following the success of Habanera


Tracklist:

01. Sanctus - Charles Gounod 5:38
02. Repentir (O Divine Redeemer) - Charles Gounod 6:34
03. Dievaines - Uģis Prauliņš 6:24
04. Regina coeli laetare - Pietro Mascagni 5:55
05. Ave Maria - Pietro Mascagni 3:49
06. Ave Maria - William Gomez 3:51
07. Laudate Dominum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 5:08
08. Agnus Dei - Georges Bizet 3:54
09. Salve Regina - Giacomo Puccini 6:38
10. Cantique de Noël - Adolphe Adam 5:25
11. Dusi, dusi - Pēteris Vasks 1:33
12. Paldies tev, vēlā saule - Pēteris Vasks 2:49
13. Miserere - Gregorio Allegri 8:16
14. Ave Maria - Vladimir Vavilov / Giulio Caccini 5:41

Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano
Latvijas Radio koris
Sigvards Kļava - chorus master, conductor (11 & 12)
German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Karel Mark Chichon - conductor
Gunther Rost - organ solo (9)
Grigory Mordashov - tin whistle (3)
Boris Bjorn Bagger - guitar (3)
Members of the Opernchor Saarbrücken (4)

Elina Garanca - Meditation (2014)