Sir Stephen Hough Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos 180g LP

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Two of the great Romantic piano concertos from Sir Stephen Hough, who travelled to Grieg's hometown of Bergen to set down these classic accounts of the Grieg and Liszt concertos with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Upon its original release, the Sunday Times named Hough's album "one of the Liszt bicentenary's prime releases, from Britain's greatest living magician of the keyboard." On vinyl, the Grieg is coupled with Liszt No 1.

Available on 180g vinyl.

Stephen Hough continues to bemuse as a pianist so free from difficulty that he can soar, inflect and alter the course of a musical argument at the drop of a hat ... he expresses a personality all his own, brilliantly alert to mercurial changes of mood and clearly riding on the crest of a wave of success. With technique honed to a state of diamond-like brilliance, he gives us rapier-like cadenzas and glissandos that flash like summer lightning

Does the world really need another recording of the Grieg Piano Concerto? The answer has to be an emphatic yes when the soloist is the barnstorming Stephen Hough, a pianist with the fascinating ability to take a venerable work, strip it of its patina and present it as though for the very first time ... highly recommended