Stephen Hough/Juilliard Quartet – review

Wigmore Hall, London"This is probably the most extreme piece I've ever played," warned Stephen Hough after sitting down at the piano for his latest concert as the Wigmore Hall's artist-in-residence. Few in the audience would have heard Morton Feldman's 1951 Variations before, and his opening remarks about the work's conspicuous use of silence were welcome, or mostly so; running late, I had sprinted a four-minute mile to the hall, reaching my seat only seconds before Hough reached his. Wheezing l...

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