''Sensation'', an album by

Anúna Anúna (stylized in all caps) is a vocal ensemble formed in Ireland in 1987 by Irish composer Michael McGlynn under the name An Uaithne. Taking the current name in 1991,AllMusic Biography/ref> the group has recorded 18 albums and achieved a ...

, was released in 2006 on the ''Danú'' label. All music featured on the disc is original, written by the Irish composer

Michael McGlynn Michael McGlynn (born 11 May 1964) is an Irish composer, producer, director, and founder of the vocal ensemble Anúna. Career McGlynn was born in Dublin and attended Coláiste na Rinne and Blackrock College. He was a student of Music and Engl ...

Track listing

# "O Ignis Spiritus" – 5.59 # "Brezairola" – 3:32 # "Sensation" – 5.03 # "Silver River" – 3:09 # "Shining Water" – 5:25 # "Lux Aeterna" – 3:40 # "The Road of Passage" – 2.20 # "Whispers of Paradise" – 4.26 # "Maid in the Moor Lay" – 1:29 # "Tenebrae IV" – 2:40 # "O Maria" – 6.08 All titles are originals, composed and arranged by Michael McGlynn

Personnel

*Miriam Blennerhassett *Sharon Carty *Lucy Champion *Ian Curran *Monica Donlon *Elaine Donnelly *Orfhlaith Flynn *Toby Gilbert *Alice Gildea *Louise Harrison *

Lynn Hilary Lynn Hilary (born 21 April 1982) is an Irish singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has also performed as a featured soprano soloist in the all-female ensemble Celtic Woman. Early life Hilary was born in Dublin, Ireland, and completed a Bach ...

*Patrick Hughes *Emily Jeffers *Nicola Lewis *Vincent Lynch *John McGlynn *Sinead McGoldrick *Brian Merriman *Jeremy Morgan *Simon Morgan *Rory Musgrave *Derek O'Gorman *Tríona Ó Healaí *Sarah O'Kennedy *Aengus Ó Maoláin *Garrath Patterson *Charlotte Richardson *Aideen Rickard *Ian Russell *Morgan Savage *Catrina Scullion *Marguerite Smith *Ronan Sugrue

Guest musicians

Gilles Servat Gilles Servat is a French singer, born in Tarbes in southern France in 1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of Brittany. He is an ardent promoter ardent of the Breton culture, and sings in both French and Breton, as well as ...

– Speaker * Máire Bhreathnach –

Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

* Noel Eccles –

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Kenneth Edge Kenneth is a given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byname m ...

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Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

* Andreja Malir –

Concert Harp The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technologically modern harp, designed primarily for use in art music. It may be played solo, as part of a chamber ensemble, or in an orchestra. It typically has 47 strings with sev ...

Production

*Brian Masterson and

– Producer *Brian Masterson – Engineer *Maria Fitzgerald – Assistant Engineer *John McGlynn – Photography *Karen Dignam – Design *John McGlynn – Cover Image {{DEFAULTSORT:Sensation (Album) Anúna albums 2006 classical albums