Can you imagine a CD that includes all of your favorite SRF chants - Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, Song of India, Indian Love Call, Divine Love Sorrows, In the Garden - performed by a soprano soloist with an angelic voice? "That's too much to ask," you might say, and yet here it is! Divine Mystery by Camila Arnold is quite divine.
Camila Arnold performs regularly with some of the best known orchestras, operas and chamber musicians in the world. She has also performed at the SRF International Headquarters in Los Angeles. We had the good fortune to attend a performance given by Camila a while ago and were enraptured listening to her beautiful voice. Here Camila is joined by several professional musicians that are well known to SRF members, as they frequently perform as various SRF venues, including at the International Headquarters. This album is quite unique and a wonderful addition to any SRF music collection.
Tracks:
1. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life - listen:
2. Song of India
3. Indian Love Call - listen:
4. Divine Love Sorrows
5. In the Garden- listen:
6. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
7. Prayer of the Norwegian Child
8. Amazing Grace
9. The Lord's Prayer
10.Trees
11.I Love You
12. Ave Maria
13. Claire de Lune
About the artists:
Camila Arnold - Chilean-born Soprano, Camila Arnold, performs regularly in Vienna/Austria for the Austrian Society of Music, the Austrian Society of Contemporary Music and the Vienna Music Festival Weeks as well as featured soprano soloist with orchestras, in chamber music concerts and solo recitals within California and the USA.
Raised in Germany, Camila received most of her musical training at the conservatory in Erlangen, Germany. She began her vocal training at age 15 under Norma Lerer in Nü rnberg/Germany and Professor Charlotte Lehmann in Hannover/Germany. At the Markgrafentheater in Erlangen/Germany Camila performed as "Nancy" in the musical "Oliver" and was featured soloist in various concerts and recitals.
In California/USA, Camila joined a vocal ensemble at the International Headquarters of Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles where she performed for large audiences at special functions. During that time, she was recorded as the featured soprano soloist in an original arrangement of a Renaissance song at the historical A&M Record Studio in Hollywood. In San Diego, Camila performed as soprano soloist with the Palomar Choral and is featured on the historical recording of orchestral works by Giacomo Antonio Perti. Her credits include performances with the San Diego Opera in the Verdi Requiem, the Oceanside Museum, the California Foundation for International Global Arts in Solana Beach and the Desert Community Orchestra in Ridgecrest.
Her international credits include performances in Vienna/Austria for the Austrian Society of Music, the Austrian Society of Contemporary Music, the Vienna Music Festival Weeks, the Harmonia Classica; and for the Assisi Festival in Italy. As co-founder and artistic director of the Austrian Californian Society of Music (ACSOM), Camila specializes in progressive classical works by contemporary composers: Gerhard Track, Werner Eugen Lardy, Werner Pelinka and Ulf-Diether Soyka. It is her mission to bring new and uplifting music to audiences in California and in Europe.
Nicolette Crawford - Keyboards
Electra Reed - Oboe
Beth Folsom - Violin
Sheila Jaffe - Harp
Recording information:
Produced by Camila Arnold and Nicolette Crawford
Engineered and mixed by Randy Renner at Pepperland Recording Studios, Vista, California
