Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

BIZARRE: Stephen hough | Mind Blowing Facts

A look back at the UK’s longest-running cold cases

Ryland Headley, then aged 34, forced entry into the home of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967

The Independent UK

The UK’s longest-running cold cases

The conviction of Ryland Headley, 92, for the murder of Louisa Dunne in 1967, is thought to be the longest-running cold case to be solved by police.

Evening Standard

From the salon and the scarf dance … to silence: the music of Cécile Chaminade

Her work was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, and her compositions celebrated all over the world – but today she is barely known. Stephen Hough on why he is putting Chaminade in his current season

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Philharmonia/Rouvali review – epic Nordic soundscapes of drama and disruption

Sibelius’s rarely programmed Kullervo closed a rich and varied programme of Nordic music in touch with nature

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Eugene Onegin; Last Night of the Proms; Mahler: Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ – review

Plucky Northern Ireland Opera triumphs with elegant, homegrown Tchaikovsky; Stephen Hough and Angel Blue rise above the pomp; and biblical car park Mahler

The Guardian - UK

Last Night of the Proms review – pauses stretched patience but warmth and a Mexican wave won out

Pianist Stephen Hough was magical, soprano Angel Blue was on velvet-voiced form and a sporting theme brought inspired silliness

The Guardian - UK

Hough/Hallé/Elder review – Americana, jazz and virtuosity in debut for piano concerto

Stephen Hough’s new, nostalgia-themed work enjoyed its European debut with Mark Elder and the Hallé very much on form in their final months together

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts

The British classical label is now part of Universal Music and its superb catalogue is being made available to stream. From Hildegard of Bingen to Hough, Hewitt and Hamelin, we look over some of the greatest recordings now available

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: BBC Proms week one; Ariadne auf Naxos – review

Record viewing and listening figures, plus keyboard wizardry from Paul Lewis, Benjamin Grosvenor and Stephen Hough, kicked off another year at the Proms. Elsewhere, Strauss’s Cretan romcom laid bare

The Guardian - UK

Prom 6: BBC Phil/ Wigglesworth/ Hough – fiery precision and brilliance

This stunning Prom featured Stephen Hough balancing bravura with lyricism in Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, the premiere of Grace-Evangeline Mason’s quietly effective Ablaze the Moon and a finely judged reading of Mahler’s First Symphony

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Riley to receive royal honour for Holocaust and antisemitism awareness

David Harewood and Sir Alok Sharma are also among those set to collect accolades.

The Independent UK

Enough by Stephen Hough review – a note-perfect pianist’s memoir

The distinguished piano player’s recollections verbalise the abstract mystery of music

The Guardian - UK

‘I was swallowing the piano whole’: Stephen Hough on life as a prodigy – and playing for Jimmy Savile

In an extract from his new childhood memoir, the great concert pianist recalls falling in love with the instrument, pestering his parents for lessons … and the deception on Jim’ll Fix It

The Guardian - UK

Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets review – witty scenes of 20s Paris and gossamer delicacy

A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Hough review – a master pianist who lines up with the greats

Playing his own Partita alongside Debussy, Scriabin, Mompou and Liszt, the artist showed himself equal to any technical demand

The Guardian - UK

Rio Ferdinand given OBE and Damian Lewis CBE in Queen’s birthday honours list

Gareth Bale, Eve Muirhead, Bonnie Tyler and Chi-chi Nwanoku among honourees from arts and sport

Liverpool Echo

Celebrities you might not know have links to Wirral

You may be surprised that some of these celebs hail from the peninsula

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

UEFA Champions League

the BBC Symphony Orchestra

39 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.