Composer: Bernard Hughes
Performer: Epiphoni Consort, Becky Ryland-Jones, Milly Pelmore, Jess Haig, Abaigh Wheatley, Greg Windle, Christopher Pelmore, Amatey Doku
Conductor: Tim Reader
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34289
Release: 2022
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Perhaps
02. Psalm 56
Precious Things
03. I. All the gold in the world
04. II. Helium
05. III. Crude
06. The Linden Tree
07. The Singers
08. If we shadows have offended
09. Jubilate Domino
I Sing of Love
10. I. Meditation I
11. II. ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one’
12. III. Meditation II
13. IV. ‘Through love’
14. V. Meditation III
15. VI ‘Love is patient, love is kind’
Two Songs of Spring
16. I. Spring, the sweete spring
17. II. It was a lover and his lasse
18. Jesus, Springing
A Ternary of Littles
19. I. I saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail
20. II. Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady
21. III. A New Song
22. Seek the peace of the city
23. Vocalise
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 Hughes’s creative thinking, and Epiphoni, making a name for themselves in recordings of music by living British composers, are ideally suited to the delivery of Hughes’s diverse language, in performances that showcase their trademark luxuriant sound.