The butterfly flits about with grace. The solitary traveller sighs with the gentlest melancholy. Grieg’s Lyric Pieces comprise 66 touching vignettes in ten books that cover most of his composing life.

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 6 July 2015, after 6pm. Hot on the heels of Stephen Hough’s excellent renditions of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces comes this less flamboyant but nonetheless elegant collection ...

Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Stephen Hough is a true renaissance man – a top concert pianist, writer, composer and painter. He has won global acclaim for his ...

Grieg's complete Lyric Pieces would fill three discs, but Stephen Hough's recording is all that most of us will ever need; Hough's selection of 27 contains many of the best-known and a fair few ripe ...

Leave it to Stephen Hough, the British-born pianist and composer, who also happens to be an inveterate blogger, painter and author of spiritual tracts, to discover a mother lode in an all but ...

Spring is finally bursting out all over, so it’s a good moment to survey the way composers have evoked this most optimistic of seasons. Half of my ten choices hail from France, probably because it was ...

The last few days of unabated San Diego sunshine have me feeling particularly spring-ish even though we are technically in the dead of winter with spring still a month or so away. However, it did get ...