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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

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

Saturday, 16 September 2023 Read more...

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

Friday, 18 August 2023 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 15 August 2023 Read more...

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

Saturday, 05 August 2023 Read more...

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

Saturday, 05 August 2023 Read more...

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

Friday, 28 July 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 28 June 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 21 June 2023 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 Read more...

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

Saturday, 15 April 2023 Read more...

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

Friday, 14 April 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 Read more...

Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful visions of the future

Monday, 27 March 2023 Read more...

Nonclassical: The Greenhouse Effect, Barbican Conservatory review - enjoyable freestyle happening

Monday, 13 March 2023 Read more...

LPO, Adès, RFH review - tempests and infernos

Thursday, 23 February 2023 Read more...

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Music Reissues Weekly: Motörhead - The Manticore Tapes

Manticore was owned by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their manager. The organisation provided the name for the band’s label. Apart from ELP and its...

Classical CDs: Bells, birdsong and braggadocio

 

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Kiefer / Van Gogh, Royal Academy review - a pairing of oppos...

When he was a callow youth of 18, German artist Anselm Keifer got a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Vincent van Gogh. Some...

Siglo de Oro, Wigmore Hall review - electronic Lamentations...

Siglo de Oro are a vocal ensemble who specialise in older music – and especially neglected older music – but they have also...

Album: Barry Can't Swim - Loner

Despite being Mercury nominated, Bazza’s hardly a household name. Nevertheless, his debut album ...

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, National Portrait Ga...

When in the 1990s, Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in...

Hot Milk review - a mother of a problem

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, adapted from Deborah Levy’s 2016 Man Booker shortlistee, has been described as a "psychological drama"....

Glastonbury Festival 2025: Five Somerset summer days of musi...

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“I think you’d better drive,” says Finetime, his face sallow, skull-sockets underscored by...

Tom Raworth: Cancer review - truthfulness

I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s...