Precious Things

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.

The album includes the title work, Precious Things, which is a setting of words by three poet friends of Hughes’s, two of whom he met at Catz. Bernard describes it as, ‘a real celebration of the friends I made at Oxford’.

(Bernard Hughes / Delphian, 2022)

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