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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

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

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

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

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St Matthew Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - moving and humble

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Our Mother, Stone Nest review - musical drama in a mother's grief

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Colin Currie Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - toccatas for triangles and teacups

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Malofeev, BBCSO, Lintu, Barbican review - finesse as well as fireworks

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Paraorchestra, Hazlewood, Southbank Centre review - re-thinking the orchestral experience

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Brian Klaas: Fluke review - why things happen, and can we stop them?

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Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort, Allies, Wigmore Hall review - a fun 17th century musical Christmas

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Voces8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, Smith, Voces8 Centre review - joyous Christmas music by Bach

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Grosvenor, Park, Ridout, Soltani, Wigmore Hall review - chamber music supergroup in perfect accord

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Accentus, Insula orchestra, Equilbey, Barbican review - radiant French choral masterpieces

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Ben Folds, Royal Albert Hall review - piano pyrotechnics and modern musings

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Justin Lewis: Don't Stop the Music - A History of Pop Music, One Day at a Time review - deft and delightful pop almanac

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Capuçon, Philharmonia, Bancroft, RFH review - enjoyable all-American classics

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Testmatch, Orange Tree Theatre review - Raj rage, old and ne...

Cricket has always been a lens through which to examine the legacy of the British Empire. In the 1930s, the infamous Bodyline series saw the new...

Album: Justice - Hyperdrama

Justice are a couple of super-suave rock star analogues....

I.S.S. review - sci-fi with a sting in the tail

Earthrise, the 1968 Apollo 8 photograph of our small island of a planet, taken from the Moon’s surface, transformed our vision of our...

Album: St Vincent - All Born Screaming

The thing with Annie Clark, better known as the triple-Grammy-winning iconoclast St Vincent, is that much like an actual saint the multi...

Eye to Eye: Homage to Ernst Scheidegger, MASI Lugano review...

With a troubled gaze and a lived-in face, the portrait of artist Alberto Giacometti on a withdrawn...

Christian Pierre La Marca, Yaman Okur, St Martin-in-The-Fiel...

The French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca confesses that – like so many classical musicians...

That They May Face The Rising Sun review - lyrical adaptatio...

In director Pat Collins’s lyrical adaptation of John McGahern’s last novel, with cinematography by Richard Kendrick, the landscape is perhaps the...

Album: Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless

This album came with an absolutely enormous promo campaign. As well as actual advertising there were “Audience With…” events, and specials on BBC...

Ridout, Włoszczowska, Crawford, Lai, Posner, Wigmore Hall re...

Advice to young musicians, as given at several “how to market your career” seminars: don’t begin a biography with “one of the finest xxxs of his/...