LPO/Alsop/Hough – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonLast summer, Daniel Barenboim played both of Liszt's piano concertos in a single concert at the Festival Hall, with Pierre Boulez conducting. Predictably that was a headline-hogging event, sold out months ahead, and doubtless the place would have been packed whatever Barenboim had played. As proof of that, the hall was by no means full for Stephen Hough's performance of the same two concertos, with Marin Alsop conducting the London Philharmonic.Pianistically, though, H...

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