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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Kolesnikov, Wigmore Hall review - celestial navigation through a cabinet of wonders

Thursday, 23 May 2024 Read more...

Dunedin Consort, Mulroy, Wigmore Hall review - songs of love old and new

Thursday, 16 May 2024 Read more...

Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review - a view from the boundaries

Tuesday, 23 April 2024 Read more...

Dorian Lynskey: Everything Must Go review - it's the end of the world as we know it

Wednesday, 10 April 2024 Read more...

Elmore String Quartet, Kings Place review - impressive playing from an emerging group

Tuesday, 09 April 2024 Read more...

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...

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The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Appl, Levickis, Wigmore Hall review - fun to the fore in cab...

Concerts at the Wigmore Hall offer many types of pleasure, but not...

Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...