Browse: Instrumental Selections (series)

Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The most dazzling piano disc of the year — The Guardian More…

A collection of miniature piano rarities and transcriptions put together to fascinating effect. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 More…

Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Grainger's eclectic idiosyncratic piano transcriptions, despatched with light-fingered clarity. Strauss swoons, Stephen Foster's all of a tingle. Excellent notes, too. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…