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2022-06-06 06:38:32
Precious Things: a lovely survey of Bernard Hughes' recent choral music from Epiphoni Consort on Delphian
[…] each movement utilising a single and distinct texture, imitative polyphony, homophony dominated by melody, and strong block chords. And these also demonstrate that Hughes does not shy away from strong, discordant harmonies. Partly the sheer variety stems from Hughes' eclectic selection of texts. The title track Precious Things sets three texts by poet contemporaries of Hughes, Antony Dunn, Helen Eastman and Andrew George (two of whom Hughes knew at university). Elsewhere there is Michael Symmons Roberts, Kevin Crossley Holland, Vera Brittain, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Longfellow, Robert Herrick, and Shakespeare, plus the Bible. In I Sing of Love, written for Seattle Pro Musica in America in 2012, Hughes uses texts from Song of Solomon, the Islamic mystic Rumi, and I Corinthians. The sound world is some way towards a 21st century English part-song tradition, and you feel that such works as RVW's folk-song arrangements and Shakespeare songs are in the back of Hughes' cupboard […]
2021-09-24 00:27:50
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE During a pandemic, the word “escapism” sounds particularly sweet, doesn’t it? This is how Alicia Crossley describes her newest album Bass Instincts. The post first appeared on CutCommon.
2021-02-22 16:00:42
Starry heavens
From the Bayerische Staatsoper, an all-Beethoven program featuring Edwin Crossley-Mercer and Lise Davidsen.
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2021-02-22 12:34:42
Free stream of the day: Beethoven’s Irish from Bavaria
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