Bernard’s new choral miniature Night Song has been released by VOCES8 Publishing, the music publishing branch of the VOCES8 Foundation. The music is an arrangement of the piano piece Song of the Walnut, released recently on the album Bagatelles, performed by Matthew Mills. Night Song uses words by the English poet John Fletcher (1579-1625) and is scored for SATB choir with divisi. It is available now as a digital download.
Bernard’s new song cycle Metropolis features on the new album Songs for Out Times, released by Divine Art Records in October 2023. With words by Chinwe D. John, the song cycle is sung by soprano Isabelle Haile, with Christopher Glynn at the piano.
The BBC Symphony Chorus will perform Bernard Hughes's carol 'Christmas Bells' on Sunday 17 December at BBC Maida Vale Studios, for later broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The carol is a setting of a Longfellow poem for mixed choir and organ and will be conducted by Neil Ferris as part of a programme of modern and traditional carols. 'Christmas Bells' is available in the anthology En Bethlehem, published by Cadenza Music.
Bernard Hughes's carol Jesus, Springing is being performed by the BBC Singers on Friday 15 December at Temple Church in London. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. The carol is a setting of a poem by Kevin Crossley-Holland, with whom Bernard previously collaborated on The Death of Balder, also for the BBC SIngers,
Everyone Sang, the first of Two Choral Fanfares, and the first track on Bernard Hughes's choral album I am the Song, has passed 34,000 plays on Spotify. The other fanfare, the album's title track, is close behind, approaching 33,000 plays. Both tracks are available on Spotify, or to buy on CD, along with other music by Bernard Hughes.
Bernard Hughes’s setting of Psalm 56, winner of the Elysian Singers’ Psalmfest composition competition, has been published by Novello & Co. Premiered at the end of 2016 it is now available for purchase.
Bernard Hughes's popular Isabel's Noisy Tummy, part of the children's piece Bernard & Isabel based on classic books by David McKee, is receiving its latest performance by the City of Southampton Orchestra on 20 January 2018. Conducted by John Traill and narrated by Phil Cheesman, it will be part of the Family Concert - A Trip to the Zoo. The concert, performed at 11am and 2pm, will be at Central Hall, Southampton.
