Anúna: Choral Music with an Edge

Anúna: Choral Music with an Edge

When I posted some songs in Gaelic a few weeks ago, Joseph Susanka pointed out an alternate version of “Fionnghuala” by a choral group called Anúna. I’d heard it before, and it’s amazing (be sure to turn up the volume):

Anúna is an Irish choral group, exploring older traditional Irish music (i.e., not pub tunes). “Fionnghuala”, for example, is a figure from Irish mythology, being one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Another Irish tune I’ve known for years (in Clannad’s version) is “Dúlamán”; and Anúna does a lovely version of that, too:

But I was surprised to find, while trolling through Youtube, that they’d also recorded one of my favorite Christmas carols, a Spanish carol called “Ríu Ríu Chíu”:

I’m sure there’s much more.


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