℗ 2013 Hyperion Records Limited
| Released | November 24, 2013 |
| Duration | 1h 37m 53s |
| Record Label | Hyperion |
| Genre | Classical |
Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Stephen Hough, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Mark Wigglesworth
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15
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1.1
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I. Maestoso
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
22:53 | |||
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1.2
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II. Adagio
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
13:28 | |||
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1.3
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III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
12:41 | |||
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83
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2.1
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I. Allegro non troppo
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
18:19 | |||
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2.2
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II. Allegro appassionato
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
9:10 | |||
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2.3
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III. Andante
Johannes Brahms; Marcus Pouget; Stephen Hough; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Mark Wigglesworth |
11:52 | |||
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2.4
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IV. Allegretto grazioso
Johannes Brahms; Mark Wigglesworth; Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Stephen Hough |
9:30 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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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.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hyperion Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.06 -3.40 to -0.21 | -25.02 -29.78 to -22.09 | -21.06 -25.30 to -18.10 | 14 13 to 16 | |
| 1.1 | I. Maestoso | -0.21 | -23.13 | -18.7 | 14 |
| 1.2 | II. Adagio | -3.40 | -29.78 | -25.3 | 15 |
| 1.3 | III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo | -0.56 | -23.46 | -20.0 | 14 |
| 2.1 | I. Allegro non troppo | -0.82 | -23.36 | -19.7 | 14 |
| 2.2 | II. Allegro appassionato | -0.30 | -22.09 | -18.1 | 13 |
| 2.3 | III. Andante | -0.49 | -29.28 | -25.2 | 16 |
| 2.4 | IV. Allegretto grazioso | -1.61 | -24.02 | -20.4 | 14 |