Stephen Hough; Mark Wigglesworth: Mozarteumorchester Salzburg - Brahms: The Piano Concertos

This attractively priced double set is one of Stephen Hough�s most important recordings. �Britain�s greatest living pianist� (The Mail on Sunday) is joined by the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and international conductor Mark Wigglesworth in their Hyperion debut for Brahms�s Piano Concertos. These works are among the greatest in the genre, and shore up Brahms�s reputation as both a symphonist and a piano composer. Separated by twenty-two years and widely differing in their reception (the first was scorned and the second a huge success), they are monumental in scale, impassioned and truly romantic, forward-looking in form and requiring both great virtuosity and intimacy from the pianist. Stephen Hough has performed them in concert for many years to ecstatic acclaim: this new recording is surely one of his most desirable offerings.