sat 30/09/2023

Bernard Hughes

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Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.

Articles By Bernard Hughes

The Yellow Wallpaper, Lilian Baylis Studio review - a tense and intimate monodrama

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Prom 43: Endgame, BBC Scottish SO, Ryan Wigglesworth review - beautiful sounds but slow, slow drama

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Tony Williams: Cole the Magnificent - fantastical tale blends myth, poetry and comedy

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theartsdesk at the Voces8 Summer School - musical oasis offers opportunities for all

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Prom 27: Wang, Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mäkelä review - glittering night with music’s golden couple

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Prom 17: CBSO, CBSO Chorus, Yamada review - Carmina Burana presses all the right buttons

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Fiona Maddocks: Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in Exile review - an affectionate biographical portrait

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Hahn, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Hall review - Americana old and new

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Estonian National Male Voice Choir, Üleoja, Kings Place review - full-throated Baltic choral music

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Bercken, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Court review - beleaguered ensemble shows its value

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Gagarin Quartets, Modulus String Quartet, Brunel Museum review - a multimedia journey into space

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National Youth Choir, Royal Albert Hall review – a spectacular jubilee

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Facade Ensemble, Collins Rice, St Margaret Pattens Church review - meditation and reflection

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Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful visions of the future

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Nonclassical: The Greenhouse Effect, Barbican Conservatory review - enjoyable freestyle happening

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LPO, Adès, RFH review - tempests and infernos

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James Blake, Alexandra Palace review - victory lap for Nort...

James Blake’s sold-out show at Ally Pally is his only UK stop this tour and it feels like a homecoming of sorts – while Blake now lives in Los...

Album: Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations

Towering drums, seering and furious guitars, vocals that are powerful and often throat-scorching;...

Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory revie...

The Biba dresses are way too colourful, the shop’s interior about 10 times too bright… and did anybody really say ”happening threads”...

The Creator review - bold, beautiful, flawed sci-fi epic

It has been seven years since Gareth Edwards directed, for me, the best of the new generation of Star Wars films, Rogue One. Having made...

Falstaff, Opera North review - going green and having fun

There’s a charmingly retro feel to Opera North’s new Falstaff, which comes from it being done as part of their new “...

The Old Oak review - a searing ode to solidarity

Ken Loach has occasionally invested his realist TV dramas and movies with moments of magical realism – football inspiring them in The Golden...

Unbelievable, Criterion Theatre review - Derren Brown-direct...

Unbelievable is a strange title for a slightly strange show, the brainchild of Derren Brown, Andrew O’Connor and Andy Nyman, a...

Black Sabbath: The Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingh...

These days Black Sabbath aren’t short of admirers in the arts and even further afield. Artists as disparate as veteran soul man, Charles Bradley...

Album: Jorja Smith - Falling or Flying

Jorja Smith said she named her new album Falling or Flying to describe the uncertainty she’s felt about her career following the success...