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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

Prom 23: Floristán, BBC Philharmonic, Gernon review - concerto lacks heft

Tuesday, 06 August 2019 Read more...

Prom 8, Faust, BBCSO, Eötvös review - terrific orchestral showcase

Thursday, 25 July 2019 Read more...

Londinium, Griffiths, St John’s Waterloo review - a choral Grand Tour

Saturday, 13 July 2019 Read more...

London Mozart Players, Davan Wetton, St Giles Cripplegate - rousing Shakespearean revel

Saturday, 29 June 2019 Read more...

The Diary of One who Disappeared, ROH review – song cycle-as-opera is a mish-mash

Friday, 07 June 2019 Read more...

Kuusisto, Philharmonia, Rouvali, RFH review - new principal conductor steps up

Saturday, 01 June 2019 Read more...

Hardenberger, Pöntinen, Wigmore Hall review - superstar trumpeter shows his class

Tuesday, 14 May 2019 Read more...

Voces8, Cadogan Hall review – masterful madrigal singing and more

Friday, 05 April 2019 Read more...

Vasari Singers, Backhouse, St Bride’s Fleet Street review - rarely heard choral classic soars

Saturday, 23 March 2019 Read more...

Robin Hood, The Opera Story, CLF Café review - folk hero re-imagined as Tory villain

Wednesday, 06 March 2019 Read more...

Tynan, Appl, Burnside, Wigmore Hall review - the music of domesticity explored in song

Wednesday, 20 February 2019 Read more...

Montero, Scottish Ensemble, Kings Place review - new music with a political edge

Saturday, 16 February 2019 Read more...

Fibonacci Sequence, Conway Hall review - characterful chamber music for winds

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Read more...

Epiphoni Consort, Reader, St Paul's Covent Garden review - historical drama with seasonal spirit

Monday, 17 December 2018 Read more...

Iestyn Davies, Aurora Orchestra, Kings Place review - arresting musical miscellany

Saturday, 24 November 2018 Read more...

Dmitri Ensemble, Ross, St John's Smith Square review - impressive minimalism for strings

Monday, 29 October 2018 Read more...

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Bryony Kimmings’ new show – her first in five years – was created to celebrate the opening of Soho Walthamstow, the previously...

Blu-ray: Le Quai des Brumes

From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during...

La bohème, Opera North review - still young at 32

Phyllida Lloyd’s production of La Bohème for Opera North is...