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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Adam Sisman: The Secret Life of John le Carré review - tinker, tailor, soldier, cheat

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Roomful of Teeth, Milton Court review - mellifluous minimalism with a mild manner

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I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, Kings Place review - magnificent Monteverdi Vespers

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The Yellow Wallpaper, Lilian Baylis Studio review - a tense and intimate monodrama

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Prom 43: Endgame, BBC Scottish SO, Ryan Wigglesworth review - beautiful sounds but slow, slow drama

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Tony Williams: Cole the Magnificent - fantastical tale blends myth, poetry and comedy

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theartsdesk at the Voces8 Summer School - musical oasis offers opportunities for all

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Prom 27: Wang, Hampson, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mäkelä review - glittering night with music’s golden couple

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Prom 17: CBSO, CBSO Chorus, Yamada review - Carmina Burana presses all the right buttons

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Fiona Maddocks: Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in Exile review - an affectionate biographical portrait

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Hahn, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Hall review - Americana old and new

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Estonian National Male Voice Choir, Üleoja, Kings Place review - full-throated Baltic choral music

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Bercken, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Court review - beleaguered ensemble shows its value

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Gagarin Quartets, Modulus String Quartet, Brunel Museum review - a multimedia journey into space

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National Youth Choir, Royal Albert Hall review – a spectacular jubilee

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Facade Ensemble, Collins Rice, St Margaret Pattens Church review - meditation and reflection

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L'Olimpiade, Irish National Opera review - Vivaldi...

In Vivaldi’s more extravagant operas, some of the arias can seem like a competition for the gold medal. L’Olimpiade is relatively modest...

Red Eye, ITV review - Anglo-Chinese relations tested in junk...

Aircraft hijacking is a ghoulishly popular theme in films and TV, but Red Eye brings a slightly different twist to the perils of air...

Album: Josienne Clarke - Parenthesis, I

Parentheses, I is an album title  (I) – that’s a hieroglyph of the self, the brackets like...

Music Reissues Weekly: West Coast Consortium - All The Love...

West Coast Consortium’s first single was July 1967’s “Some Other Someday,” a delightful slice of Mellotron-infused harmony pop which wasn’t too...

Love Lies Bleeding review - a pumped-up neo-noir

Somewhere along a desert highway in the American Southwest, where there's not much to do besides get drunk, shoot guns, and pump iron, a stranger...

Remembering conductor Andrew Davis (1944-2024)

As a human being of immense warmth, humour and erudition, Andrew Davis made it all too easy to forget what towering, incandescent performances he...

Brancusi, Pompidou Centre, Paris review - founding father of...

One hundred and twenty sculptures, and so much more: the current Brancusi blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou, the first large Paris show of the...

CVC, Concorde 2, Brighton review - they have the songs and t...

The joy of CVC, when they catch fire, is the zing of gatecrashing a gang of cheeky, very individual personalities having their own private party....