Tchaikovsky: The Three Piano Concertos, Concert Fantasia/ Stephen Hough, Minnesota Orchestra/ Vänskä

Anyone who heard Stephen Hough's barnstorming performances of all the Tchaikovsky piano concertos at last year's Proms will want to own these CDs, which mark Hyperion's 50th recording in their Romantic concerto series. Captured live, they recreate all the raw excitement of those memorable evenings at the Albert Hall. Osmo Vänskä's suave direction of the Minnesota players allows Hough's brilliance to shine through, and, as at the Proms, we have a chance to hear Hough's own intelligent reworking of the second movement of the second concerto.