Stephen Hough's New Piano Album

Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA67043
Label: Hyperion
Series: Instrumental Selections
Length: 77 minutes

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Liszt: Soirées de Vienne – Valses-caprices d'après Fr. Schubert, S427

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VI. A minor

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Excerpt, Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94

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III. F minor

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Excerpt, Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795

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VIII. Morgengrüss

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Godowsky: Triakontameron

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XI. Alt Wien

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Moszkowski: Étincelles (No. 6 from Huit Morceaux Caractéristiques, Op. 36)

Work length2:55

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Paderewski: Miscellanea, Op. 16

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No 2 in G flat major. Mélodie

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Chaminade: Pierrette – Air de ballet, Op 41

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Chaminade: Pièces humoristiques, Op 87

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IV. Autrefois

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Kalman: Was weiss ein nie geküsster Rosenmund

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Hough: Musical Jewellery Box

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Hough: Étude de Concert

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Rodgers, R: The King and I: Hello, Young Lovers

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Rodgers, R: The Carousel Waltz

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anon.: Londonderry Air

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Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10

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No 5 in G major. Humoresque

Track length3:30

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Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op 3 revised

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No 3 in E major. Mélodie

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Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2

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Tchaikovsky: Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

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Tchaikovsky: Pas de quatre

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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Paraphrase

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Stephen Hough (piano)

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Back in the 80's Stephen Hough made two recordings for Virgin Classics which quickly became cult items among piano enthusiasts throughout the world. Using the title 'The Piano Album' those CD's featured a variety of the encore type pieces in which the pianist revels in the possibilities of his instrument, pieces designed to show off the performer as much as the music. Stephen Hough's New Piano Album revisits this territory with a new selection of gems. This is the music of the great pianists of the past, and many, Rachmaninov and Paderewski to name but two, not only played such pieces but also wrote them. While times and styles have sadly changed, those who have heard Stephen Hough in concert know that at encore time this tradition is alive and well in his hands and that amongst the jewels of the past it is equally likely there will be a new Hough transcription such as the Carousel waltz included here. This is a unique collection that will delight all fans of both Stephen Hough and romantic piano music.

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2010

Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced meal using only desserts. Modern pianists, to be sure, are more calorie conscious than their forebears, and Hough is no exception.
It's not his way to emphasise inner voices or linger over juicy modulatory patterns, à la Hofmann, Moiseiwitsch, Horowitz, Cortot or Cherkassky. If Hough prefers to bind Godowsky's garish counterpoints with skimmed milk rather than double cream, he's cheeky (and smart!) enough to insert his own ossias into Moskowski's Etincelles, or to retool the Tchaikovsky/ Pabst Sleeping Beauty Paraphrase to more brilliant pianistic effect. As in his previous 'Piano Albums', Hough serves up his own Rodgers & Hammerstein transcriptions. If the decorative note-spinning in 'Hello, Young Lovers' distracts from rather than enhances the eloquent original, the pianist's giddy romp through 'The Carousel Waltz' is a tour de force that brilliantly recaptures both the tender and tough-minded qualities inherent in the musical's book. Hough's own Etude de Concert gets plenty of finger-twisting mileage out of a rather un-memorable theme, harmonised, however, with clever Gershwinisms.
The unadorned Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky selections are played with heartfelt simplicity and a lean yet singing sonority.

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