Precious Things: Choral Music by Bernard Hughes

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Precious Things: Choral Music by Bernard HughesGLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 27 MAY 2022 SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Devoted to Bernard Hughes's choral music and programmed in close collaboration between the composer and The Epiphoni Consort, this portrait recording reveals a composer for whom musical style grows naturally out of the provenance of his commissions and their chosen texts. Himself a wordsmith, text setting and delivery are at the forefront of Hughess creative thinking, and Epiphoni,

for example: in Howard Eckdahl’s orchestration the text’s water-brooks swirl and eddy with new currents

Recording venue(s): Church of St John the Evangelist

Recording dates: 6-8 March 2017

Catalogue No: DCD34239

In the thirty years since the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain were born

"Hill establishes his voice from the outset with fluid

The combination of different timbres and the rich resonance of the double bass works well to create a song cycle that draws inspiration from texts by Australian poet Judith Bishop

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I suspect some of these tunes will follow you around all day"

"[Hebrides Ensemble] play with exemplary care and expressive tenderness"

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