Anam

For this project, APOLLO5 has compiled sacred and secular settings of texts by composers past and present, absorbing madrigals, folk and contemporary choral music into a programme of “music to move the soul”. 

Anam – which is the word for 'the soul' in Gaelic – is far-reaching in style and geography: a number of the pieces 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 Anam are rooted in the essential role of music and words: to stir something in us, to encourage, to comfort, to guide, and to empower.