Elina Garanca: Meditation

El na presents a beautiful selection of spiritual music dedicated to the eternal search and longing for inner peace. Its perhaps one of her most personal albums ever which connects the listener with El nas Latvian roots

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