Gramophone Magazine
July 2018
Editor's Choice

Stephen Hough (piano)

Hough: Radetzky Waltz
Love / Hough: Das Alte Lied
Isserlis: In The Steppes, Op. 11 / 2
Minkus / Hough: Don Quixote - Kitri's Variation
Minkus / Hough: Don Quixote - Dulcinea's Variation
Solovyov-Sedoy / Hough: Moscow Nights
Liszt: Harmonies Du Soir, S 139 / 11
Liszt: Étude In F Minor, S 139 / 10
Albéniz / Hough: Capricho Catalan, Op. 165 / 5
Ponce: Intermezzo #1
Dohnányi: Rhapsody In C, Op. 11 / 3
Sibelius: Kuusi, Op. 75 / 5
Seymer: Solöga, Op. 11 / 3
Chaminade: Pas Des Écharpes
Hough: Niccolo's Waltz
Hough: Osmanthus Romp
Hough: Osmanthus Reverie
Coates: By The Sleepy Lagoon
Tate / Hough: Somewhere A Voice Is Calling
Anon / Hough: Matilda's Rhumba
Hough: Iver-Song, 'Lullaby'
Dvorák: Humoresque In G Flat, Op. 101 / 7
Dvorák / Hough: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 / 4
Elgar: Salut D'Amour, Op. 12
Anon / Hough: Blow The Wind Southerly
Hough: Lullaby
Mompou: Scènes D'Enfants - #5 Jeunes Filles Au Jardin

"A bran tub of bonbons, yes, but much more than that: it is also a portrait of an artist in love with music of all sorts (including, with no apology, the unfashionable and the second-rate if it happens to appeal to him), of a master transcriber and of that rare animal, a concert pianist who is not afraid to mix high jinks with high art...Witty, wistful, extrovert, introspective and cheeky by turn, this is a masterclass in a certain style of piano-playing, and a dream of an album." - Gramophone Magazine, July 2018