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Six essential recordings

Hummel Piano Concertos

English Chamber Orchestra/bryden Thomson Chandos CHAN 8507 (1987)

Made early in Hough’s recording career, his Gramophone Awardwinning accounts of Hummel’s concertos remain fresh and joyous. Mompou Piano Music

Hyperion CDA66963 (1997)

Hough’s identification with the Catalan’s meditative and haunting music was all the more striking after his vivid recordings of Beethoven and Britten, and won critical plaudits. Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

Dallas Symphony Orchestra/andrew Litton Hyperion CDA67501/2 (2004)

Hough’s magisterial playing in these authoritative accounts of the concertos and the Rhapsody is matched by a superlative orchestra. In the Night Works by Chopin,

Beethoven, Schumann and Hough Hyperion CDA67996 (2014)

Including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Schumann’s Carnaval, and Hough’s own Piano Sonata No. 2, this is one of his most imaginative and evocative programmes. Mendelssohn • Grieg • Hough

Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello)

Hyperion CDA68079 (2015)

Hough and cellist

Steven Isserlis form a first-rate partnership in this attractive programme, including Hough’s own ingenious Sonata for Cello and Piano Left Hand. Vida Breve Bach, Chopin, Liszt etc Hyperion CDA68260 (2021)

Chopin’s Second Sonata is the centrepiece of another imaginatively planned recital which shows, said BBC Music Magazine, ‘Hough’s comprehensive mastery of his art’.