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.

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.