MIRABILIS A new album of Stephen's choral music is released on Orchid today. Read reviews in Gramophone here (PDF), The Sunday Times here (PDF), the Times here, Limelight here (PDF), and The Tablet here (PDF)
Hyperion Records begins streaming today. Click here to listen to the first batch of Stephen's albums
Stephen's article in the Times about Rachmaninov: not the softest chocolate in the box. PDF here
And Rachmaninov the same week at the BBC Proms. Some reviews: The Guardian and The Times
Stephen's memoir ENOUGH is published. "Riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a second volume, a third, a fourth. I loved it.' - Philip Pullman
Here's an extract published in the Guardian. A review (PDF) in Gramophone Magazine. A review (PDF) in The Spectator. A review (PDF) in Literary Review. A review (online) in the Observer. A review (PDF) in The Critic. A review (PDF) in BBC Music Magazine. A review (PDF) in The Oldie. Online in Musical America. Review and profile in Bay Area Reporter. A review (PDF) in Limelight. Available on Amazon.
Stephen's new recording of Mompou Musica Callada is awarded a Diapason d'or. "Magisterially sensitive [...] Hough’s subtleties are never-ending. Through minute gradations of dynamics or the fragile sculpting of a phrase, the sparest and simplest of these pieces assume a rare beauty" - The Times. A review in Mail on Sunday (PDF). A review in the Financial Times (PDF). In Danish, a review in Politiken (PDF)
A recording of Stephen's 1st String Quartet (Les Six Rencontres) played by the Takacs Quartet has been released on Hyperion.
"Harking back to the pungent and insouciant spirit associated with composing group Les Six, Hough's creation is an immediate winner [...] a magical album" The Times
"The ‘surprise’ item is Stephen Hough’s First String Quartet. In six short movements, it harks back to Les Six whose music, says Hough, ‘evokes a flavour rather than a style’, namely ‘the rough and tumble of daily human life’. What he calls ‘Stravinskyan spikes’, both rhythmic and harmonic, lace textures that are complex but never abstruse or overbearing, often utterly delightful, in a language that references tonality obliquely. Above all, Hough’s is an unmistakably individual and convincing voice." BBC Music Magazine
Stephen talks about his childhood and cultural influences to John Wilson on BBC Radio 4's THIS CULTURAL LIFE. Listen here
A concert of Stephen's songs at Wigmore Hall, performed by Ailish Tynan (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), James Newby (baritone), together with Stephen and the pianist Alisdair Hogarth, can be streamed here. Musical America's review of this concert is here (PDF). The I Newspaper's review is here (PDF). The Catholic Herald is here (PDF).
A profile of Stephen in Iceland’s Sunday newspaper Morgunbladid ahead of his UK tour with Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Sir Stephen was awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Learn more
"A sublime new recording by Stephen Hough" Alex Ross on Chopin Nocturnes in The New Yorker
Stephen Hough: The Erato Years (1987-1998) The 9CD set reviewed in BBC Music Magazine
Stephen's Chopin Nocturnes chosen as an 'Album of the Year' in The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and Classic FM
Stephen's new album VIDA BREVE is released on 29th January. Here's the first review, a Gramophone Editor's Choice. And here's the Mail on Sunday's 5-star review. In the New York Times here
Should we just get rid of intervals at concerts? Stephen's article in the Guardian
"Graphic [...] Brutal [...] With its broad dualisms, fierce language, and dark themes, The Final Retreat is an arresting, harrowing and controversial personal struggle with faith and loss." A review of Stephen's novel.
Stephen's book ROUGH IDEAS is published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the US, and reviewed here by Musical America and here in the Toronto Star
Stephen talks about his and London's return to live concerts with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos. Stephen latest recording is released. Here is a review from The Times
Stephen's new Brahms CD is Recording of the Month in Gramophone Magazine. Here's the review.
Stephen's Rough Ideas chosen as one of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019
An article in Standpoint Magazine on musical notation and improvisation, the difference, and whether it matters
Reviews of Stephen's new book Rough Ideas published by Faber & Faber in The Observer & The Tablet & The Big Issue & BBC Music Magazine & International Piano & The Spectator & Catholic Herald & Gramophone & Classical Music & Times Literary Supplement & Church Time
Stephen is appointed a Visiting Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford for a three-year term (2019-22)
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers include Stephen's sequence HALLOWED on their latest CD. Listen here on Spotify
One Catholic, one Anglican, one gay, one musical: four reviews for Stephen's novel in The Tablet the Church Times the Bay Area Reporter and BBC Music Magazine
Stephen was made an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Stephen in Vanity Fair; and a profile: in conversation with Stephen in the Wall Street Journal
Stephen is made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours List
An exhibition of Stephen's paintings runs for the month of October at Broadbent Gallery in London
Stephen to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool in December 2011
Stephen is nominated by The Economist and Intelligent Life magazines as one of 20 living polymaths, alongside Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky and Michael Ignatieff. Click here to read more
Stephen and The Takács Quartet are Nominated for a 2009 Grammy (Best Chamber Music Performance category 104)
Stephen Wins the Gold Disc Award from Gramophone