The Epiphoni Consort, Tim Reader - Precious Things: Choral Music by Bernard Hughes (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Perhaps
02. Psalm 56
03. Precious Things: I. All the gold in the world
04. Precious Things: II. Helium
05. Precious Things: III. Crude
06. The Linden Tree
07. The Singers
08. If we shadows have offended
09. Jubilate Domino
10. I Sing of Love: I. Meditation I
11. I Sing of Love: II. ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one'
12. I Sing of Love: III. Meditation II
13. I Sing of Love: IV. ‘Through love’
14. I Sing of Love: V. Meditation III
15. I Sing of Love: VI ‘Love is patient, love is kind'
16. Two Songs of Spring: I. Spring, the sweete spring
17. Two Songs of Spring: II. It was a lover and his lasse
18. Jesus, Springing
19. A Ternary of Littles: I. I saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail
20. A Ternary of Littles: II. Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady
21. A Ternary of Littles: 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.

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