Wigmore Hall, LondonIt was a coincidence, Stephen Hough announced before the final concert of his current Wigmore residency, that he had come up with an all-English programme for the Jubilee weekend. If so, it was nevertheless an inspired one, since all three parts of this richly interesting programme spoke powerfully to the private and melancholy side of the English sensibility, rather than to the public pomp and pageantry elsewhere in town.Hough's generous sense of keyboard history ensured the...
Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonIt was a coincidence, Stephen Hough announced before the final concert of his current Wigmore residency, that he had come up with an all-English progr... more info