# The Rachmaninov song in "A Secret Garden"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rachmaninov-song-in-a-secret-garden/554426 "2010-09-20T16:27:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![kmar5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kmar5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmar5)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rachmaninov-song-in-a-secret-garden/554426/21 "2010-12-11T16:13:29Z")

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the song is called “nocturne in e minor” by chopin. it’s one of my favorites, and all because we taped that hallmark “secret garden” so many years ago and watched it a million times! hope that’s helpful to you 🙂

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**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rachmaninov-song-in-a-secret-garden/554426/22 "2010-12-13T00:28:43Z")

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I LOVE that version of The Secret Garden. I also had it on VHS, and I watched it over and over when I was a kid. The best part? Yummy Colin Firth as the adult Colin Craven.

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**Author:** ![Veritasius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/fbc32d/32.png) [@Veritasius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Veritasius)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rachmaninov-song-in-a-secret-garden/554426/23 "2016-07-27T07:18:38Z")

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> [@QuarkChild](#):
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> This is a long shot, but I’m wondering if anyone can help me ID a song. In 1987, Hallmark produced a made-for-TV version of the Secret Garden. There’s a scene in which Mr. Craven is in his library, and a haunting piano piece plays in the background. …

> [@kmar5](#):
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> the song is called “nocturne in e minor” by chopin. it’s one of my favorites, and all because we taped that hallmark “secret garden” so many years ago and watched it a million times! hope that’s helpful to you 🙂

Thank you so much QuarkChild for asking that question, and kmar5 for answering it! I joined this forum just so I could thank you! I heard the song while on hold on the phone, and wanted to identify it. I’d been searching desperately for it listening to every classical/romantic piano piece I could find, but to no avail. I hummed it for my brother, and he recognized it from The Secret Garden. I couldn’t find the soundtrack online, but thanks to this posting, I found the name, which I could then find recordings of. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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