sat 29/03/2025

Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Ridout, 12 Ensemble, Wigmore Hall review - brilliant Britten and bombastic Brahms

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Jessica Duchen: Myra Hess - National Treasure review - well-told life of a pioneering musician

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RAM Song Circle, Wigmore Hall review - excellent young musicians lift the spirits

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Album: Ben Folds - Sleigher

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Christmas with Connaught Brass, Milton Court review - delightful seasonal fare from Bach to Boulanger

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Mailley-Smith, Piccadilly Sinfonietta, St Mary-le-Strand review - music in a resurgent venue

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Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence review - a whodunnit with a difference

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The Orchestral Forest, Smith Square Hall review - living the orchestra from the inside

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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Hall review - warm and colourful Bartók and Brahms

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Blond Eckbert, English Touring Opera review - dark deeds afoot in the woods

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Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall review - Scarlatti miniatures outshine Brahms behemoth

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theartsdesk Q&A: conductor Dalia Stasevska on her new album of contemporary orchestral music

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Prom 44, Shani, Rotterdam Philharmonic review - impressive multi-tasking by conductor-pianist

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Prom 36, McGill, BBCSSO, New review - summery Shakespearean mummery

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Prom 32, Gillam, BBCNOW, Venditti review - belated debuts and a dancing delight

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Prom 26, Feldmann, BBC Philharmonic, Bihlmaier review - two warhorses and a femmage

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Album: Will Smith - Based on a True Story

Will Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, is a prime example of why some comebacks should remain hypothetical. After two decades...

Verdi Requiem, Philharmonia, Muti, RFH review - new sparks f...

Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi’s Messa da...

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The End review - surreality in the salt mine

The End, a quasi-musical from Joshua Oppenheimer, who has previously only produced ...

Playhouse Creatures, Orange Tree Theatre review - jokes, shi...

Creatives – or creatures? In the 1660s, women – having been banned from working as actors in previously more...

Album: Perfume Genius - Glory

I can’t stop reading and re-reading the review copy I got of a new book, out next week. Liam Inscoe-Jones’s ...

La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review -...

Just now, the notion of a long-term project that concludes in 2041 sounds like an optimistic bet on the far future worthy of some 18th-century...