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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

St Matthew Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - moving and humble

Saturday, 30 March 2024 Read more...

Our Mother, Stone Nest review - musical drama in a mother's grief

Saturday, 23 March 2024 Read more...

Colin Currie Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - toccatas for triangles and teacups

Wednesday, 28 February 2024 Read more...

Malofeev, BBCSO, Lintu, Barbican review - finesse as well as fireworks

Saturday, 17 February 2024 Read more...

Paraorchestra, Hazlewood, Southbank Centre review - re-thinking the orchestral experience

Saturday, 27 January 2024 Read more...

Brian Klaas: Fluke review - why things happen, and can we stop them?

Saturday, 27 January 2024 Read more...

Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort, Allies, Wigmore Hall review - a fun 17th century musical Christmas

Saturday, 23 December 2023 Read more...

Voces8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, Smith, Voces8 Centre review - joyous Christmas music by Bach

Tuesday, 05 December 2023 Read more...

Grosvenor, Park, Ridout, Soltani, Wigmore Hall review - chamber music supergroup in perfect accord

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 Read more...

Accentus, Insula orchestra, Equilbey, Barbican review - radiant French choral masterpieces

Tuesday, 21 November 2023 Read more...

Ben Folds, Royal Albert Hall review - piano pyrotechnics and modern musings

Wednesday, 15 November 2023 Read more...

Justin Lewis: Don't Stop the Music - A History of Pop Music, One Day at a Time review - deft and delightful pop almanac

Tuesday, 07 November 2023 Read more...

Capuçon, Philharmonia, Bancroft, RFH review - enjoyable all-American classics

Friday, 27 October 2023 Read more...

Adam Sisman: The Secret Life of John le Carré review - tinker, tailor, soldier, cheat

Thursday, 12 October 2023 Read more...

Roomful of Teeth, Milton Court review - mellifluous minimalism with a mild manner

Sunday, 08 October 2023 Read more...

I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, Kings Place review - magnificent Monteverdi Vespers

Sunday, 01 October 2023 Read more...

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That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comi...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the...

Friendship review - toxic buddy alert

The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have...

Album: Slikback - Attrition

In the eternal now of the strobe-lit sweatbox, innovation functions in a different way to the rest of culture. Yes of course, the thrill of the...

Interview: Quinteto Astor Piazzolla on playing in London and...

“I still can’t believe that some pseudo-critics continue to accuse me of having murdered...

Sir Brian Clarke (1953-2025) - a personal tribute

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-...

S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documen...

“I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people from half a mile...

Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means. For a start, the...

Billie Eilish, O2 review - power, authenticity and deep conn...

Billie Eilish may be one of the biggest names in new music, but here at the O2 Arena, she’s just Billie – the one who stares deep into your soul,...

Falstaff, Glyndebourne review - knockabout and nostalgia in...

From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter Inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the military ranks of “Dig for...