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Bernard Hughes

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

Articles By Bernard Hughes

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

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

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LPO, Adès, RFH review - tempests and infernos

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Benjamin, Jaya-Ratnam, Harper, Milton Court review - black musicians take centre stage

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Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers

Neo-soul devotees Durand Jones and the Indications mine a vein of sensuous sounds, at the soft end of a genre that's partly defined by the raw...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

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Album: Benson Boone - American Heart

I first had a conversation about Benson Boone without realizing it was him we were talking about. It went something like: “Did...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...