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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