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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Sonoro, Ferris, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate review - intriguingly programmed launch concert

Wednesday, 07 March 2018 Read more...

Coates, Tenebrae, Short, Kings Place review - effective meeting of cello and choir

Monday, 18 December 2017 Read more...

Labèques, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - good-natured Schubert and Mozart delight

Saturday, 25 November 2017 Read more...

Marnie, English National Opera review – hyped new opera doesn’t hit the heights

Sunday, 19 November 2017 Read more...

Total Immersion: Julian Anderson, Barbican review - BBC ensembles showcase leading British composer

Monday, 23 October 2017 Read more...

Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall review – Bach Partitas shine and sing

Thursday, 19 October 2017 Read more...

Tetzlaff, LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - a triumphant homecoming for the maestro

Friday, 15 September 2017 Read more...

Die Zauberflöte, Royal Opera review – enjoyable revival of much loved production

Wednesday, 13 September 2017 Read more...

Prom 24 review: Crebassa, Philharmonia, Salonen – thrilling performance of Adams masterpiece

Thursday, 03 August 2017 Read more...

Prom 22 review: Pygmalion, Pichon – theatrical take on Monteverdi's Vespers

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 Read more...

Prom 13 review: Rana, BBCSO, Davis – Malcolm Sargent tribute lacks punch

Tuesday, 25 July 2017 Read more...

Prom 1 review: Levit, BBCSO, Gardner - fizzing Adams finally ignites mixed First Night

Saturday, 15 July 2017 Read more...

Wosner, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place

Saturday, 06 May 2017 Read more...

Trpčeski, LSO, Roth, Barbican

Friday, 31 March 2017 Read more...

Bryars and Reich, London Philharmonic Orchestra, RFH

Friday, 17 March 2017 Read more...

Uchida, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, RFH

Wednesday, 30 November 2016 Read more...

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In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

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Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...

The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first repr...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of...

Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...

Aldeburgh Festival, Weekend 1 review - dance to the music of...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of despair “...