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Stephen Hough (piano)» More |
from notes by Leslie Howard © 1988
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Leslie Howard’s recordings of Liszt’s complete piano music, on 99 CDs, is one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for Howard’s Herculean piano p ...» More |
Liszt: Sonata, Ballades & Polonaises ‘At last, Hough tackles Liszt’s Sonata on record and the result is as musicianly as this fine pianist’s admirers might expect’ (Gramophone) ‘Hough transforms the rumbling, chromatic bass line [Ballade No 2] into an almost terrifyingly atmospheric setting’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More |
Arthur de Greef - Solo and concerto recordings Belgian pianist Arthur de Greef studied with Franz Liszt and also became a close friend of Grieg, who strongly admired his playing. He was a mainstay of the HMV catalogue in the 1920s and this set brings together for the first time his complete re ...» More |
Moura Lympany - The HMV Recordings, 1947-1952 Moura Lympany (1916-2005) was the last of the major Matthay pupils and she started working with him in 1937 when he was already 79. In 1938 she shot to international fame when she came second to Emil Gilels in the Queen Elisabeth competition. A br ...» More |
Percy Grainger - The complete 78-rpm solo recordings ‘Here’s something a little bit special to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Percy Grainger … Grainger was a charismatic pianist and a ... ‘The best of Grainger’s shellac efforts retain their vividness and communicative immediacy. Even if Grainger had never met and befriended Grieg, his i ...» More |
The Stephen Hough Piano Collection 'This is a fine introduction to the piano playing of one of the great talents of the present age' (MusicWeb International)» More |