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“Hough dazzled with his virtuosity but even more so with his musicality”
Reviewed at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 29 October 2020
Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major "Emperor", Op.73
Bartók, Divertimento for Strings, Sz 113
Sir Stephen Hough, Piano
Joshua Weilerstein, Conductor
Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven
***11
Domingo Hindoyan's warm Bruckner 6 beguiles Liverpool
****1
Sidorova mesmerises Liverpool with Tabakova’s Accordion Concerto
****1
Lozakovich, Foster and the RLPO: glorious Bruch and Tchaikovsky
*****
Hindoyan and Hough bring a new dream team to Liverpool
*****
Vasily Petrenko brings precision and power to Shostakovich’s Leningrad
****1
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