BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / HOUGH
In the Night Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/May/2014 ] This latest recital album by 'the thinking person's virtuoso: an extraordinary pianist' (The New York Times) takes the listener on a journey through that most intense and absorbing of nineteenth-century obsessions, the night. |
TAFFANEL / JOLIVET / TOMASI / POULENC
Danses et Divertissements Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] One of the world's foremost wind quintets meets one of today's finest pianists in a work that many consider to be the best work for piano and winds: Poulenc's Sextet, as well as works by other French composers. |
W.A. MOZART
Music for piano and wind quintet Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2000 ] "All the music, even the slighter pieces such as K580a and K616, is top quality, the playing tremendously accomplished, and there's an exceptionally satisfying blend of different instrumental timbres. The arrangements are highly professional,... |
W.A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN
Quintets for Piano and Winds Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] On this disc one of the world’s finest pianists encounters one of the world’s greatest wind quintets, performing two very special works: Mozart’s and Beethoven’s quintets for piano and winds. The unusual scoring has led these works to be performed... |
MOZART / CRAMER / FRIEDMAN / HOUGH / LISZT
Stephen Hough's Mozart Album Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] SUNDAY TIMES CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INSTRUMENTAL CHOICE |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] "In 1984 Steven Isserlis made excellent recordings for Hyperion of the Brahms sonatas with Peter Evans; this time he's added some substantial extra items - the two Suk pieces, wonderfully played, are particularly welcome. The new recording is fuller... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Erato / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
BIRD SONGS AT EVENTIDE
Bird Songs at Eventide Robert White (tenor) Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE 'RECORD OF THE MONTH' - 'If these ardent renderings … do not find a place in your heart then you should wonder what your heart's made of' (Classic FM Magazine) |
YORK BOWEN
Bowen:piano Music Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "York Bowen could have no more ardent or pianistically adroit advocate" (Gramophone) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Hough's playing is of an enviable freedom and flexibility, his shot-silk pianism endlessly blossoming with colour and nuance...few pianists can approach him as a master of finesse, and he is presented in sumptuous sound." International Piano |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Arabeske, Kreisleriana & Fantasie Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] The emotional sweep of these marvellous works, reflecting the vicissitudes of Schumann's complex personal life at the time, calls for a pianist wholly responsive to their fervent Romanticism. The artistry of Stephen Hough proves ideal. |
SCRIABIN / JANACEK
Scriabin / Janacek: Piano Sonatas & Poems Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2015 ] 'The recorded sound is warm and immediate. A fascinating concept album that genuinely does shine new light on both composers' (Classical Ear) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos Stephen Hough (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "The performances have been captured in lovely clean and clear sound with just the right amount of hall ambience. The balance between the Bösendorfer piano and the orchestra is excellent as, indeed, is the internal orchestral balance." MusicWeb |
LISZT
Annees de pelerinage - Suisse Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] "Hough seems to capture the romantic spirit of this cycle so effectively. He masterfully achieves that just balance of lyricism and pyrotechnics so necessary to the successful playing of Liszt's music" (MusicWeb Aug 2005) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op. 5 / Four Ballades, Op. 10 Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] "Hough casts a scattered, multicoloured light as if through stained glass … One could write a complete analytical essay on Hough's breathtakingly illuminating playing of the Second Ballade, but no words could convey the beauty he brings to the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "'One of the finest accounts of Brahms's late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental |
CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Waltzes Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Hough's playing has such authority and panache, its balance between virtuosity and vividly communicated expression so finely judged, that every perfectly scaled moment is as intensely realised as every other. Few other pianists around today play... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Piano Music (Incls 'Children's Corner' & 'Images') Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/May/2018 ] 'Hough himself is an exhibited painter, and his approach to Images resembles that of a visual academic, concerned to explore intellectual nuances' (Pianist) |
CHOPIN
Four Ballades, Four Scherzos Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "Playing that scales the heights: these inexhaustible pieces really do catch fire" - Recording of the month (Gramophone May 2004)) |
FAURE / POULENC / CHABRIER / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / etc
Stephen Hough - French Album Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Instrumental |