APOLLO5 celebrates its 15th anniversary by giving a live performance of the group’s new album 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.   

“Exceptional cohesion and effortless style... faultless.” — BBC Music Magazine

Performers
APOLLO5
Teena Lyle - Harmonium
Grace Lemon - Uillean Pipes