fri 29/08/2025
Home > users

Bernard Hughes

Bernard Hughes's picture
Bio
Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Kings Place review - composer portrait shows strengths and limitations

Thursday, 21 November 2019 Read more...

Gerstein, LPO, Adès, RFH review - engaging new piano concerto

Thursday, 24 October 2019 Read more...

Glennie, Lubbe, Ticciati, O/Modernt, Kings Place review - a Pergolesi-based dud

Saturday, 19 October 2019 Read more...

Dickson, Brautigam, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - disappointing Mozart concerto

Monday, 30 September 2019 Read more...

Tetzlaff, Philharmonia, Salonen, RFH review - glories of the Weimar era

Friday, 27 September 2019 Read more...

Prom 66: In the Name of the Earth review - John Luther Adams's ambitious choral spectacular

Monday, 09 September 2019 Read more...

Prom 47: Schönheit, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Nelsons review - Bruckner doesn’t quite take flight

Saturday, 24 August 2019 Read more...

Prom 46: Kanneh-Mason, CBSO, Gražinytė-Tyla review - brilliant programme, brilliant playing

Friday, 23 August 2019 Read more...

Prom 28: BBCNOW, Otaka review - fantastical choral expedition

Friday, 09 August 2019 Read more...

Prom 23: Floristán, BBC Philharmonic, Gernon review - concerto lacks heft

Tuesday, 06 August 2019 Read more...

Prom 8, Faust, BBCSO, Eötvös review - terrific orchestral showcase

Thursday, 25 July 2019 Read more...

Londinium, Griffiths, St John’s Waterloo review - a choral Grand Tour

Saturday, 13 July 2019 Read more...

London Mozart Players, Davan Wetton, St Giles Cripplegate - rousing Shakespearean revel

Saturday, 29 June 2019 Read more...

The Diary of One who Disappeared, ROH review – song cycle-as-opera is a mish-mash

Friday, 07 June 2019 Read more...

Kuusisto, Philharmonia, Rouvali, RFH review - new principal conductor steps up

Saturday, 01 June 2019 Read more...

Hardenberger, Pöntinen, Wigmore Hall review - superstar trumpeter shows his class

Tuesday, 14 May 2019 Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
theartsdesk Q&A: Suranne Jones on 'Hostage', p...

If she decided to run for election, Suranne Jones would probably stand a good chance of winning. The Chadderton-born actress and...

theartsdesk Radio Show 37 - Pete Lawrence of the Big Chill d...

This edition of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic...

Little Trouble Girls review - masterful debut breathes new l...

Taking its title from a Sonic Youth track whose lyrics describe someone who seems good on the outside but is bad inside, this debut...

Young Mothers review - the Dardennes explore teenage motherh...

“Not even an animal would do what she did.” Jessica (Babette Verbeek) is speaking about her biological mother, who abandoned her when she was a...

Album: CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY

Queen of the earworm Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson has had quite the summer, capturing imaginations and sparking indignation. The brazen hussy has the...

BBC Proms: The Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne Festival rev...

One door closes, and another one opens. A lot. It’s extraordinary what value those two simple additions to the Royal Albert Hall stage lent to...

Fat Ham, RSC, Stratford review - it's Hamlet Jim, but n...

$8.2B. That’s what can happen when you re-imagine ...

King & Conqueror, BBC One review - not many kicks in 106...

In this strangely dreary recreation of 11th century history, it’s not just grim oop north, it’s grim everywhere. King & Conqueror...

Juniper Blood, Donmar Warehouse review - where ideas and ide...

Playwright Mike Bartlett is, like many writers, a chronicler of both contemporary manners and of the state of the nation. In his latest domestic...