Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.
Shostakovich’s jazzy side leads the field, with ear-ravishing Ravel, Carl Vine’s piano sonatas and Matthias Goerne’s collaboration with Daniil Trifonov in hot pursuit.
Stephen Hough takes Schuberts ‘heavenly lengths’ to greater heights.
Insights galore from the mind and piano stool of one of music’s sharpest thinkers.
Chopin’s exquisite bel canto ‘arias’ take wing under master’s touch.
From Igor Levit to Stephen Hough the piano takes centre stage this month, but there are vocal pleasures too with Respighi songs and Christian Gerhaher’s complete Schumann.
Stephen Hough masterfully harnesses Schumann's "multitudes".
The art's for sale, from Stephen Hough's erotic surge to Nathaniel Boyd en plein air.
Glorious pianism from one of the true masters of the keyboard.
From Montéclair to Martinů, lesser-known works are much in vogue as the new year gets into its stride.
Brilliant, blazing Beethoven from Hough and Lintu’s finessed Finns.
The polymath pianist offers up succinctly sketched thoughts on music and much, much more.
Hough captures Brahms, as the final cigar is extinguished…
