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“When music sounds, gone is the earth I know” – Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956)

The power of music to move us is like nothing else. Perhaps it is the directness, the immediacy of sound produced, shared and absorbed by the listener that can rouse a palette of myriad emotions whilst reawakening an abundance of memories. Singing, with its recitation of words, is possibly the most intimate and personal form of musical expression, and carries the added immensity of storytelling, bearing the emotions and memories of wordsmiths and the composers that set their text to music. 

Anam is a programme of music to move the soul. It is far-reaching in style and geography: many of the disc’s seventeen tracks have a strong Scottish or Irish connection, but there are also excursions to Renaissance Italy, Victorian England and present-day North America. Celebrating the rich bardic tradition inspired by human emotion, landscape and heritage, the pieces on this album are rooted in the essential role of music and words: to stir something in us, to encourage, to comfort, to guide, and to empower.  

Track List

1. Anam – Fraser Wilson arr. for APOLLO5  (new arrangement)

2. O Rubor Sanguinis – Rebecca Tavener for APOLLO5 (new commission)

3. Os Mutorum – James MacMillan

4. Donna, se fiera stella - Philippe Verdelot

5. Hor che l’aria e la terra – Cipriano de Rore

6. My heart, my God, is steadfast – Lucy Walker arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)

7. My Soul, There is a Country – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

8. When Music Sounds – Francis Pott for APOLLO5 (new commission)

9. A Study (A Soul) – Paul Smith for APOLLO5 (new commission)

10. Ca’ the Yowes – trad. Scottish arr. Adrian Peacock for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)

11. Beneath Thy Compassion – Paul Mealor arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)

12. Without Knowing – Henrik Dahlgren arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)

13. Black is the Colour – trad. Scottish arr. Blake Morgan for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)

14. Am gaeth i m-muir – Michael McGlynn for APOLLO5 (new commission)

15. Wildflowers – Tom Petty, arr. Penelope Appleyard for APOLLO5 after a cover by The Wailin’ Jennys (new arrangement)

16. The Eternal Rose (An Rós Síoraí) – Teena Lyle for APOLLO5 (new commission)

17. Auld Lang Syne – trad. Scottish arr. Christopher Moore for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)