Elina Garanca Delivers Her Most Personal Spiritual Album "Meditation"

On September 16, Elina Garanca will be releasing "Meditation," her most beautiful selection of spiritual music dedicated to the eternal search and longing for inner peace. It's perhaps one of her most personal albums ever which connects the listener with Elina's Latvian roots.
Elina's 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 She studied at the Latvian Academy of Music with her mother. She won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in 1999 and was a finalist in the 2001 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
She began her professional career as a resident artist with the Südthüringischer Staatstheater in Meiningen where she appeared in a number of leading roles and she appeared as a resident artist with the Frankfurt Opera. In September 2005 Ms Garanča became an exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon. Her first solo recording 'Aria Cantilena' was released in March 2007 to great popular and critical acclaim and she was awarded the prestigious ECHO KLASSIK award for 'Singer of the Year 2007.' Her second solo record, 'Bel Canto' was received with similar enthusiasm.
Ms Garanča has since, quickly established herself as one of the music world's major stars through her performances with leading opera theaters and symphony orchestras around the world. She has captured critical and popular acclaim for her beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship, and compelling stage portrayals.
The album includes a couple of real discoveries like Praulinš' 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 - Ugis Praulinš for his work Dievaines, and Eriks Esenvalds who has written an a cappella arrangement (Allegri Miserere) especially for this recording.
Elina 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
Track Listing
01. Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte-Cécile: Sanctus - Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893)
02. Repentir "O Divine Redeemer" - Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893)
03. Dievaines - Praulins, Ugis (*1957)
04. Cavalleria rusticana: Regina coeli laetare - Mascagni, Pietro (1863 - 1945)
05. Cavalleria rusticana: Ave Maria - Mascagni, Pietro (1863 - 1945)
06. Ave Maria - Gomez, William (1939 - 2000)
07. Vesperae solemnes de confessore, K. 339: - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
08. Agnus Dei - Bizet, Georges (1838 - 1875)
09. Salve Regina - Puccini, Giacomo (1858 - 1924)
10. Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) - Adam, Adolphe (1803 - 1856)
11. Silent Songs - Vasks, Peteris (*1946)
12. No 4 Paldies tev vela saule - Vasks, Peteris (*1946)
13. Miserere mei, Deus - Allegri, Gregorio (1582 - 1652)
14. Ave Maria - Caccini, Giulio (attr.) 1545/51? - 1610/18?)/ Vavilov, Vladimir (1925 - 1973)
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