Work: Lyric Pieces: Notturno, Op.54 no.4

Sir Stephen Hough produces a memorable piece of pianism in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Metacosmos will have converted some contemporary music sceptics.

The Russian pianist's nuanced approach bears most fruit in Schubert and Grieg, less so in Beethoven and Ravel.

The combination of Grieg, Sibelius and Shostakovich proved a rather uninteresting one in Oslo.