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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Juliana, Nova Music Opera, St John's Smith Square review - new version of a classic drama

Tuesday, 23 October 2018 Read more...

Prom 65, London Voices, BBCSO, Bychkov review - 20th century masterpieces hit home

Saturday, 01 September 2018 Read more...

Prom 33, Schultz, Reuter, BBCSO, Farnes review - powerful Brahms Requiem

Wednesday, 08 August 2018 Read more...

Prom 31, Barnatan, Minnesota Orchestra, Vänskä - American classics take centre-stage

Tuesday, 07 August 2018 Read more...

Prom 12, Weilerstein, BBCSO, Canellakis review - energetic 20th century classics

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 Read more...

Prom 4, Simpson, BBCPO, Mena review - terrific Lindberg, brooding Shostakovich

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 Read more...

The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Grange Festival review - enjoyable if conventional production

Monday, 25 June 2018 Read more...

The Courtesan’s Gaze, Fieri Consort, Handel House review – historical female composers in context

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 Read more...

Ligeti Chamber Music, QEH review - inventive celebration of iconic composer

Saturday, 12 May 2018 Read more...

Anna Meredith, Southbank Sinfonia, QEH review - triumphant genre-busting treat

Monday, 30 April 2018 Read more...

Donohoe, LPO, Orozco-Estrada, RFH review – wit aplenty in rare Stravinsky

Thursday, 22 March 2018 Read more...

Sonoro, Ferris, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate review - intriguingly programmed launch concert

Wednesday, 07 March 2018 Read more...

Coates, Tenebrae, Short, Kings Place review - effective meeting of cello and choir

Monday, 18 December 2017 Read more...

Labèques, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - good-natured Schubert and Mozart delight

Saturday, 25 November 2017 Read more...

Marnie, English National Opera review – hyped new opera doesn’t hit the heights

Sunday, 19 November 2017 Read more...

Total Immersion: Julian Anderson, Barbican review - BBC ensembles showcase leading British composer

Monday, 23 October 2017 Read more...

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Bryony Kimmings, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review - captivati...

Bryony Kimmings’ new show – her first in five years – was created to celebrate the opening of Soho Walthamstow, the previously...

Blu-ray: Le Quai des Brumes

From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during...

La bohème, Opera North review - still young at 32

Phyllida Lloyd’s production of La Bohème for Opera North is...

Shibe, LSO, Adès, Barbican review - gaudy and glorious new m...

Many orchestral concerts leaven two or three established classics with something new or unusual. The LSO reversed that formula...

Frankenstein review - the Prometheus of the charnel house

Guillermo del Toro strains every sinew to bring his dream film to life, steeping it in religious symbolism and the history of art, cannily...