Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Suisse

…Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent that he can risk personalising certain pieces without sounding the least bit mannered.... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2005
Catalogue No: CDA67424
Label: Hyperion
Length: 75 minutes

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, première année – Suisse, S160

Work length51:46

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I. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell

Track length6:43

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II. Au lac de Wallenstadt

Track length3:07

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III. Pastorale

Track length1:30

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IV. Au bord d'une source

Track length3:56

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V. Orage

Track length4:50

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VI. Vallée d'Obermann

Track length15:53

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VII. Eglogue

Track length2:50

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VIII. Le mal du pays (Heimweh)

Track length6:36

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IX. Les cloches de Genève – Nocturne

Track length6:21

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Liszt: Les adieux – Rêverie sur un motif de l'opéra "Roméo et Juliette" de Gounod, S409

Work length8:33

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Stephen Hough (piano)

Liszt: Valse de l'opéra Faust de Ch. Gounod, S407

Work length10:15

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Stephen Hough (piano)

Liszt: Les Sabéennes, berceuse de l'opéra La Reine de Saba, S. 408

Work length4:40

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Stephen Hough (piano)

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Liszts three books of Annees de plerinage contain some of his most important music and exemplify the fusion of art and nature which was central to the nineteenth-century Romantic movement which the composer epitomized. Book 1, recorded here, reached its final form in 1855 but most of the pieces were written in the 1830s during Liszts stay in Switzerland with his mistress Marie dAgoult. Each piece has an illustrative title and aims to capture the emotion invoked by a particular scene; this was a revolutionary approach to music in its time and allowed Liszt to create a whole new world where piano texture is used purely to create atmosphere. Music requiring this degree of pianistic sophistication seems perfectly suited to the skills of Stephen Hough, and so it proves, as he captures to perfection the delicate glitter of Au bord dune source or the grandeur of Vallee dObermann. Unusually, the CD is completed with Liszts complete transcriptions from Gounod operas. The three pieces include one virtuoso warhorse the Faust waltz and two reflective and lyrical pieces which are almost completely unknown.

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Awards Issue 2005

…Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent that he can risk personalising certain pieces without sounding the least bit mannered. …he pushes the espressivo rhetoric of the brooding introduction to 'Vallée d'Obermann' and skill keeps the music's narrative trajectory alive through his exquisite tonal control and subtle pedal effects.

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