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I've run the interview trifecta with guest pianist Stephen Hough: phoner to London for Playbill, taped interview at Powell for radio broadcasts, and then live for a group of subscribers following Sunday's performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. Hough is delightful, smart and witty and engaging, and I would be happy to talk with him even more. But I must say my favorite comment from him came when I asked about the over-the-top possibilities of that lush, romantic, emotionally wrought Second Piano Concerto.
Hough told me he didn't mind playing some things over-the-top, but not
this concerto, and reminded me of Rachmaninoff's personal demeanor, his
nobility and austerity. Those waves of emotion should be in the
audience, not in the playing. Or as he put it in a sentence: "It should
never sound sweaty."
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