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STEPHEN HOUGH PERFORMS
MENDELSSOHN
1991, he toured Europe with them in his
37 th international orchestra tour. He has
also conducted most of the major European
orchestras and has toured Japan, South
America and Australia many times.
He has recorded more than 100
works, some of which were with the
East German orchestras with whom he
was associated prior to moving in 1984.
Since then he has made recordings with
several of the London orchestras, the BBC
Philharmonic and the Saarbrücken Radio
Symphony Orchestra.
Key figures in his musical training
include Hermann Abendroth, Hermann
Scherchen and Herbert von Karajan.
He has re