Elina Garanca - Meditation (2014)

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