Invocation in Amsterdam

In December 2008, Trio Scordatura played a concert of music from Ireland at Amsterdam’s De Badcuyp. Here is Alfrun Schmid’s performance of Invocation from that concert, an intense, haunting work by Enda Bates. The text is from the Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Scotish folksongs, prayers and charms recorded by Alexander Carmichael between 1855 and 1910.