''Ave Maria – En Plein Air'' is the first classical, and the fifth studio album released by the
Finnish soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish Heavy metal music, heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish.
Turunen studied lyrical ...
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On the 22 July 2015, earMUSIC released a video announcing the existence of the album, following with a teaser trailer on 6 August. The full music video was not released until 13 August that year, with Tarja singing the rare "Ave Maria" by
Paolo Tosti
Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti Royal Victorian Order, KCVO (9 April 1846, Ortona, Abruzzo2 December 1916, Rome) was an Italian composer and music teacher. Today, he is remembered mostly for his light-hearted songs, which are popular among vocal stu ...
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Background
In an interview with Winter Storm Slovakia, Tarja talked a little about the recording sessions :
"All the musicians performed the songs together with me without an audience" and continues saying "Nothing has been edited nor any studio tricks have been used" and finishes with "So what you hear on the record, is purely how the songs sounded in Lakeuden Risti church during the recording session."
She also says that this is a very important album to her, since "It represents her long background in classical music and her knowledge as a
lyrical singer".
Track listing
Musicians
* Tarja Turunen –
soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...
*
Kalevi Kiviniemi
Kalevi Ilmari Kiviniemi (30 June 1958 – 3 April 2024) was a Finnish concert organist. He gave more than 2,000 concerts, and his discography includes nearly 200 titles, many of them featuring significant and unique organs in the US, Japan, the ...
– organ
* Marius Järvi – cello
* Kirsi Kiviharju – harp
Chart performance
References
External links
Tarja-Ave Maria MicrositeTarja Turunen Official Website*
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2015 albums
Tarja Turunen albums