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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Radio 3 In Concert, BBC Sounds - a wonderful week of music

Tuesday, 28 April 2020 Read more...

Berlin Philharmoniker, Karajan, Digital Concert Hall review - a captivating musical time capsule

Thursday, 09 April 2020 Read more...

Michael Collins, Michael McHale, London Winds, Wigmore Hall review - flying the flag for wind chamber music

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 Read more...

Elysian Singers, SPCMH, Sam Laughton, St Luke’s, Chelsea review - John Cage and friends given a rare airing

Monday, 17 February 2020 Read more...

Young people's guides to the orchestra: the making of 'Not Now, Bernard & Other Stories'

Friday, 31 January 2020 Read more...

Oriole Ensemble, Conway Hall review - sublimely peculiar chamber music

Tuesday, 28 January 2020 Read more...

Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Wickham, Kings Place review - fresh take on 'lessons and carols'

Monday, 09 December 2019 Read more...

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...

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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...