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
- Anam – Fraser Wilson arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- O Rubor Sanguinis – Rebecca Tavener for APOLLO5 (new commission)
- Os Mutorum – James MacMillan
- Donna, se fiera stella – Philippe Verdelot
- Hor che l’aria e la terra – Cipriano de Rore
- My heart, my God, is steadfast – Lucy Walker arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- My Soul, There is a Country – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
- When Music Sounds – Francis Pott for APOLLO5 (new commission)
- A Study (A Soul) – Paul Smith for APOLLO5 (new commission)
- Ca’ the Yowes – trad. Scottish arr. Adrian Peacock for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- Beneath Thy Compassion – Paul Mealor arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- Without Knowing – Henrik Dahlgren arr. for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- Black is the Colour – trad. Scottish arr. Blake Morgan for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)
- Am gaeth i m-muir – Michael McGlynn for APOLLO5 (new commission)
- Wildflowers – Tom Petty, arr. Penelope Appleyard for APOLLO5 after a cover by The Wailin’ Jennys (new arrangement)
- The Eternal Rose (An Rós Síoraí) – Teena Lyle for APOLLO5 (new commission)
- Auld Lang Syne – trad. Scottish arr. Christopher Moore for APOLLO5 (new arrangement)