Name: Invocations
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The five-voice Apollo5 are impressively versatile in music ranging from Byrd to Bill Withers by way of Purcell and Gershwin, and there are moments of real beauty. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 10th Mar 2023
Catalogue No: VCM150
Label: VOCES8 Records
Length: 66 minutes

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Joel: And So It Goes

Work length2:56

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arr. Fraser Wilson & Apollo5
Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

John, E: Your Song

Work length4:17

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arr. Matt Greenwood
Apollo5

Withers: Ain't no sunshine

Work length6:02

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Gjeilo: Ubi caritas

Work length3:44

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Apollo5

Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson: I Know I Dream (arr. Fraser Wilson)

Work length5:31

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Rodgers, R: Spring Is Here: With A Song In My Heart

Work length4:07

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arr. Matt Greenwood
Apollo5

Wilson, F: Invocation

Work length6:10

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Purcell: O let me ever, ever weep (from The Fairy Queen, Z629)

Work length8:35

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Byrd: Mass for five voices: Agnus Dei

Work length3:14

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Apollo5

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles: Chan Chan (arr. Fraser Wilson & Apollo5)

Work length4:15

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Burns, Robert: Ae fond kiss

Work length4:05

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Apollo5, Fraser Wilson

Gershwin: Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)

Work length4:25

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Apollo5

trad.: The Last Rose of Summer

Work length5:05

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Apollo5

Weiss, G D: Wonderful World

Work length4:01

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Invocations was born out of Apollo5’s desire to share fragments of their life stories with audiences, and for listeners to discover their ‘life music’ too. Alongside long-term collaborator Fraser Wilson, each of the group’s members hand-picked songs and texts that have emotionally resonated with them over the course of their lives. Whether rooted in memory or nostalgia, charged by moments of pivotal, life-changing significance or ones cloaked by a hazy ambiguity, these musical milestones ‘invoke’ the personal stories of each singer. The songs selected were subsequently reworked by Fraser into brand new versions, squeezed out of their original forms and reshaped into something distant from the source whilst retaining some element of familiarity. Here, there are tender songs of adoring devotion and catastrophic, cathartic moments of heartbreak, glimpses of fragrant summer reborn and its inexorable fading, sacred works of humility and secular songs of abundant jubilation and hope. Inevitably, at the heart of almost every song, is that four-letter word: love. Love, in all its ubiquitous, convoluted and unconquerable wonder.

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June 2023

The five-voice Apollo5 are impressively versatile in music ranging from Byrd to Bill Withers by way of Purcell and Gershwin, and there are moments of real beauty.

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