Stephen Hough: the best recordings by the British pianist

Stephen Hough: the best recordings by the British pianist

We name the greatest albums by the piano polymath Stephen Hough

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Hummel: Piano Concertos (1987)

English Chamber Orchestra/Bryden Thomson Chandos
CHAN 8507

Made early in Stephen Hough’s recording career, his Gramophone Award-winning accounts of Hummel’s concertos remain fresh and joyous.

    Mompou: Piano Music (1997)

    Hyperion CDA66963

    Hough’s identification with the Catalan’s meditative and haunting music was all the more striking after his vivid recordings of Beethoven and Britten, and won critical plaudits.

      Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos (2004)

      Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton
      Hyperion CDA67501/2

      Hough’s magisterial playing in these authoritative accounts of the concertos and the Rhapsody is matched by a superlative orchestra.

        In the Night (2014)

        Works by Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann and Hough
        Hyperion CDA67996

        Including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Schumann’s Carnaval, and Hough’s own Piano Sonata No. 2, this is one of his most imaginative and evocative programmes.

          Mendelssohn • Grieg • Hough (2015)

          Cello Sonatas
          Steven Isserlis (cello)
          Hyperion CDA68079

          Hough and cellist Steven Isserlis form a first-rate partnership in this attractive programme, including Hough’s own ingenious Sonata for Cello and Piano Left Hand.

          Vida Breve (2021)

          Bach, Chopin, Liszt etc
          Hyperion CDA68260

          Chopin’s Second Sonata is the centrepiece of another imaginatively planned recital which shows, said BBC Music Magazine, ‘Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art’.

          Read all our reviews of Stephen Hough's recordings here.

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