Olivia Chaney:
Roman Holiday (arr. Marianne Schofield)

Barbara Strozzi:
Diporte di Euterpe, Op. 7 - Tradimento! (arr. Héloise Werner)

Ayanna Witter-Johnson:
Draw the Line

Philip Venables:
A Photograph

Clara Schumann:
Liebst du um Schönheit, Op. 12 No. 2 (arr. Oliver Pashley)

Lili Boulanger:
Reflets (arr. Marianne Schofield)
Attente (arr. Marianne Schofield)

Eleanor Alberga:
Deep Blue Sea

Helen Grime:
Bright Travellers, No. 5 - Council Offices (arr. Oliver Pashley)

Soosan Lolavar:
Mâh Didam

Jeremy Thurlow:
Quiet Songs

Kerry Andrew:
Fruit Songs (arr. Anne Denholm)

Emily Hall:
Befalling (arr. Oliver Pashley)

Hot on the heels of their acclaimed debut HERE WE ARE, The Hermes Experiment’s second Delphian album is an equally bold statement.

Songs commissioned specially for the ensemble – by Philip Venables, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and others – are interleaved with new arrangements (of composers including Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann and Lili Boulanger) for the group’s distinctive line-up of voice, clarinet, harp and double bass.

Moving and original, SONG reinvents a genre: here every instrument is a voice in its own right, and they all carry the drama.

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Recorded on 15-17 February 2021 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh.