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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

The Opera Story: Episodes review - whimsical takes on lockdown life

Thursday, 02 July 2020 Read more...

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...

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Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre premiere...

Robin Holloway: Music's Odyssey review - lessons in com...

Robin Holloway is a composer and, until his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British composers of the...

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If you were looking for the most perfectly brooding autumnal album this year, Florence Welch and her Machine may have been one...

Wendy & Peter Pan, Barbican Theatre review - mixed bag o...

On paper, this RSC revival of Ella Hickson’s 2013 adaptation sounds just the ticket: a feminist spin on the familiar JM Barrie story,...

Bugonia review - Yorgos Lanthimos on aliens, bees and conspi...

“How can you tell she’s an alien?” asks Don (Aidan Delbis, an impressive neuro-divergent actor) of his cousin Teddy (the excellent Jesse Plemons...

Cat Burns finds 'How to Be Human' but maybe not he...

Twenty-five-year-old South Londoner and current Celebrity Traitors contestant Cat Burns is a charming performer....