More By Artist: Stephen Hough (piano)
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BACH / LISZT / CHOPIN / BUSONI
Vida breve Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Piano Sonatas by Chopin (No 2) and Hough (No 4) are the twin peaks of a typically stimulating recital which-as always from Stephen Hough-spans centuries and styles with assurance. How often do Liszt's 'Funérailles' and Gounod's 'Ave Maria' share the... |
LOWELL LIEBERMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liebermann: Piano Concertos Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lowell Liebermann [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "...his playing is both rich in poetic insight and alive to the tonal allure of the score … an outstanding release that can be warmly recommended' (Hi-Fi News) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 Stephen Hough (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/1998 ] "Technical perfection and very good sound are certainly present in Virgin's new issue...Stephen Hough is a fine young artist." (Gramophone) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 & No 2 / Capriccio Brillant in B minor Op 22; Rondo Brillant in E flat major Op 29 ; etc (The Romantic Piano Concerto Stephen Hough (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony / Lawrence Foster [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 17 / CD - released 15/Apr/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - 'The soft, stylish arpeggios that open the first work on the disc announce immediately that something special is on the way. Hough is now clearly first recommendation in the concertos'... |
DVORAK / SCHUMANN
Piano Concertos Stephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Two more rich piano concertos from the unparalleled Stephen Hough and the CBSO (they've already won Gramophone's Record of the Year award twice). The eminent Andris Nelsons conducts, making his Hyperion debut. Schumann and Dvořák each wrote just one... |
MENDELSSOHN / GRIEG / HOUGH
Mendelssohn / Grieg / Hough: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Grieg's sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the... |
MENDELSSOHN / POPPER / FAURE / POULENC / SIBELIUS / BRYARS / BEACH / etc
Children's Cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "With a household that pulsates to the glorious tones of the cello there's clearly much material for this volume…highlights here include a sumptuous rendition of Faure's Berceuse, and a deliciously piquant pereformance of Poulenc's Serenade" 5 Stars |
CESAR FRANCK / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Franck/Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) / Rebecca Evans (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] 'Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough give a serene and eloquent performance' (Gramophone) |
EDVARD GRIEG / FRANZ LISZT / ANTON RUBINSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steven Isserlis: Forgotten Romance Steven Isserlis (cello) with Stephen Hough (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 18/Oct/1995 ] The English cellist Steven Isserlis has been a leading light on the international musical scene for more than three decades. "Steven Isserlis amazes in music whose tantalising combination of exquisite poetry and scintillating bravura he was born to... |
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. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Landmarks - 40 Years of Chandos Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano), James Thompson (trumpet), Stephen Hough (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (bass) [ Chandos / CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Released to celebrate Chandos' 40th Anniversary, this is a handsomely packaged 40-disc set. Each of the four decades is represented, and each recording has been hand-picked by Managing Director Ralph Couzens. |
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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Three Sonatas MIchael Collins (clarinet), Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "This is a disc which will grace any Brahms collection." MusicWeb |
BEETHOVEN
Complete sonatas for violin & piano Robert Mann (violin) Stephen Hough (piano) [ Nimbus / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Robert Mann, violinist, conductor, and composer, has been a driving force in the world of American chamber music for more than fifty years. He is, in the words of Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, 'one of the country's most admired and deeply loved... |
STEPHEN HOUGH
Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita Sir Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Polymath Sir Stephen Hough has a growing reputation as a composer of chamber, choral and above all solo piano music with four sonatas and a constellation of dazzling arrangements to his name. This album presents the premiere recording of his... |
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 |
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 |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: The Complete Waltzes [includes recently discovered waltz] Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Stephen Hough's 2011 album of Chopin's waltzes once more regains its 'complete' status with the inclusion of the 'Valse' found in a New York library in 2024. |
