Stephen Hough
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He is tender in op. 118/2 and powerful on op. 118/3. Op. 116/4 sings, and op. 117/2 is delicate, with a lovely touch. In several of these works—op. 116/5 and 6, and op. 117/1, for example—Brahms’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Hough is up there with the best; may we never take his excellence for granted. ..Hough's detachment - it's a small thing - is also telling in its way, the detail and overview consistently in... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The sequence works well as a recital-like experience, and also as a vehicle for Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art...The idiom of his own ‘Vida breve’ Sonata, with its cogent sweep and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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In the use of words like sensational, extraordinary, phenomenal, etc., critics have to be sparing, at risk of their credibility. But these adjectives are all appropriate to this new Chopin recital... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended
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There is a absolute 'rightness' to his playing. His technical fluency and the lightness with which he moves over the keyboard is a constant source of joy...This is an album to be savoured for... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Instrumental Choice
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the great interpreters of this music never confuse the melancholic with the sentimental. Stephen Hough is even more ‘objective’ than most while bringing pianistic poise to everything and breathing... — More…
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there’s so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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York Bowen could have no more ardent or pianistically adroit advocate — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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