Hough: Dvořák and Schumann Piano Concertos CD review – poised brilliance

Hough/CBSO/Nelsons(Hyperion)Both these concertos were recorded in performances Stephen Hough gave with the CBSO last season, and something of the buzz of those comes across here. Hough and conductor Andris Nelsons are persuasive advocates for Dvořák’s concerto, his first and least famous work of that kind. It’s quite a warhorse, and the piano writing can be repetitive and insistent, but Hough gets the listener past this with playing that always has a spring in it. His tone, ...

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