sun 18/05/2025

Bernard Hughes

Bernard Hughes's picture
Bio
Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.

Articles By Bernard Hughes

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

NMC Recordings at 35, Dutch Church, London review - a fitting celebration

Read more...

Goldscheider, Royal Orchestral Society, Miller, SJSS review - fine horn playing from the very best

Read more...

Hugo Rifkind: Rabbits review - 31 wild parties and a funeral

Read more...

St Martin's Voices, Earis, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - music from the beginning

Read more...

Sphinx Organization, Wigmore Hall review - black performers and composers take centre stage

Read more...

Kolesnikov, Wigmore Hall review - celestial navigation through a cabinet of wonders

Read more...

Dunedin Consort, Mulroy, Wigmore Hall review - songs of love old and new

Read more...

Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review - a view from the boundaries

Read more...

Dorian Lynskey: Everything Must Go review - it's the end of the world as we know it

Read more...

Elmore String Quartet, Kings Place review - impressive playing from an emerging group

Read more...

St Matthew Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - moving and humble

Read more...

Our Mother, Stone Nest review - musical drama in a mother's grief

Read more...

Colin Currie Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - toccatas for triangles and teacups

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Music Reissues Weekly: Chapterhouse - White House Demos

Quoted in an early music press article on his band Chapterhouse, singer-guitarist Stephen Patman said their ambition was “to have our records on...

Songlines Encounters, Kings Place review - West African and...

Songlines Encounters is your round-the-world ticket to great...

The Deep Blue Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - Tamsin G...

The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago established its status as...

Magic Farm review - numpties from the Nineties

There’s nothing more healthy than dissing your own dad, and filmmaker Amalia Ulman says that her old man was “a Gen X deadbeat edgelord skater”...

The Great Escape Festival 2025, Brighton review - a dip into...

As every social space in Brighton once again transforms into a mire of self-important music biz sorts loudly bellowing about “waterfalling on...

theartsdesk Q&A: Zoë Telford on playing a stressed-out p...

If you compiled a list of favourite TV series from the last couple of decades, you’d find that Zoë Telford has appeared in most of them. The...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Wigmore Hall review - too big a splash...

It was a daring idea to mark Ravel’s 150th birthday year with a single concert packing in all his works for solo piano. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet knows...

Good One review - a life lesson in the wild with her dad and...

Good One is a generation-and-gender gap drama that mostly unfolds during a weekend hiking and camping trip in the Catskills Forest...