Peter Wisse ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Joel Hill wrote: > >>Peter Wisse mentioned Hough as a possible 3rd Pianist. > >Hough is good, but I would definitely include Donohoe. His Litolff >recordings for Hyperion's Romantic Concerto series are great. I agree >with Joel. Donahoe is very good. ... But there are so many excellent >Brittish pianists at the moment,: Shelley, Donahoe, Lill, Binns, Judd, >Coombs, Lane!! But I stick to Hough as my third choice, sorry Joel, listen >to his recent Saint-Saens 4th pianoconcerto, and his Hummel concertos, not >to forget the Scharwenka 4 Not to mention Donohoe's Busoni Concerto which, for me, is the finest recording of them all. I'd agree, though, that Hough falls more into the supervirtuoso class - certainly from his choice of repertoire. I heard him give a stunning Rachmaninov 3 here a few years ago. deryk barker ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)