As everyone with a thesaurus knows, urgency rhymes with emergency. And these performances of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra by Stephen Hough with Andrew Litton leading the Dallas Symphony are nothing if they are not urgent. Hough's tempos are quick and strong and vital, with plenty of rubato and lots of accelerando. Of course, there's ...
No matter how many recordings of Brahms' cello sonatas you have -- indeed, the more recordings you have, the better -- this recording by Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough deserves to be heard. Certainly, there have been great recordings of the works in the past -- the expressive Piatgorsky, the elegant Fournier, the burly Rostropovich, the list ...
This two-disc set of the complete works for piano and orchestra is a splendid introduction to a significant aspect of the composer's oeuvre. Including the five piano concertos, the set enables the listener to trace the composer's development in this genre, from the quintessentially Romantic Concerto No. 1 through the many intriguing idiosyncrasies ...
A life-affirming disc if ever there was one, this coupling of Mozart and Beethoven's quintets for piano and winds by the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet and pianist Stephen Hough is also an absolutely necessary disc. With an alert but relaxed ensemble, warm but cool balances, and light but propulsive rhythms, the Berlin players are ideally suited ...
Stephen Hough is surely the greatest living English pianist and certainly one of the greatest living pianists. Listen to his tremendous 2003 recording of Chopin's Ballades and Scherzos. His technique is impeccably virtuosic, but never facile. His tone is deep, rich, and full, beautiful even at its loudest and sonorous even at its quietest. His ...
There's a lot to be said for this album as an actual pedagogical device -- buy one for the young cellist in your life. In a world where the musical tuition of young people is too often standardized and dull, this disc has a touch of the eccentric, of the personal, of the kind of music teacher you tell stories about years after the fact. It offers ...
An artist as versatile, virtuosic, and adventurous as Stephen Hough is hard to pin down, and this varied sampler is unlikely to define him, though it gives a a good impression of his many interests and rather flexible approach to piano music. Yet there is a scattershot quality to this compilation that may bother casual listeners who are less ...
Taken from a 1989 recording, this Virgo reissue of Stephen Hough's dynamic performance of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83, holds up quite well, even if the sound quality is a little less than desirable. As one of the great contemporary English pianists, Hough can be relied on to turn in a fascinating reading of ...
It may be that someone buying this album and expecting something like excerpts from Carmen played on the piano would be disappointed, for there are just a few examples of the fiery side of Spanish music included. Most of the pieces evoke, in the words of annotator Bruce Morrison, the "music of the night" of Spain, and of the Iberian peninsula's ...
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