Utwory na płycie:

• Two Choral Fanfares: Everyone sang
• The Death of Balder: Act Two
• anyone lived in a pretty how town
• Revelation Window
• A Medieval Bestiary: Prologue
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Beasts of the Land
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Panther
• A Medieval Bestiary: First Sermon
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Beasts of the Water
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Whale
• A Medieval Bestiary: Second Sermon
• Two Choral Fanfares: I am the Song
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Beasts of the Air
• A Medieval Bestiary: The Phoenix
• A Medieval Bestiary: Third Sermon
• Three Swans: The Bereaved Swan
• Three Swans: The Silver Swan
• Three Swans: Riddle
• The winter it is past
• The Death of Balder: Prologue
• The Death of Balder: Act One
• The Death of Balder: Interlude

Two Choral Fanfares
Three Swans
The winter it is past
The Death of Balder
anyone lived in a pretty how town
Revelation Window
A Medieval Bestiary

Following in Signum’s series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, this new disc represents the culmination of a collaboration between British composer Bernard Hughes and the choir that began in 2002. Combining modern poetry by E. E. Cummings and Siegfried Sassoon alongside Norse poetry, Hughes combines both ancient and modern elements into his compositions, which are ably performed by the BBC Singers under Paul Brough.

Bernard Hughes’s music has been performed at major venues in Britain and abroad and received a number of broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. He was runner-up at the 2009 British Composer Awards for the choral work The Death of Balder (featured on this recording).