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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

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

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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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Benjamin, Jaya-Ratnam, Harper, Milton Court review - black musicians take centre stage

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Belcea Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - a riveting new string quartet

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A Child in Striped Pyjamas, The Cockpit review - a brave tackling of a Holocaust story

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Chasing the Night, Echo Vocal Ensemble and Friends, Latto, Kings Place review - midwinter songs from around the world

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Album: Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger

Over its crisp 32 minutes and nine songs, Altogether Stranger embraces electropop, lo-fi terrain and gothic solo contemplation. By...

Much Ado About Nothing, RSC, Stratford - Messina FC scores o...

Fragile egos abound. An older person (usually a man) has to bring the best out of the stars, but mustn’t neglect the team ethic....

Zsuzsanna Gahse: Mountainish review - seeking refuge

Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse is a collection of 515 notes, each contributing to an expansive kaleidoscope of mountain encounters....

DVD/Blu-ray: All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light focuses on the lives of three women in contemporary...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Wigmore Hall review...

I came to Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Wigmore Hall recital on Saturday armed with a certain degree of scepticism. Not about the siblings’...

Simon Boccanegra, Opera North review - ‘dramatic staging’ pr...

Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, performing in concert halls as...