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A bold and dramatic account of Mozart's K475C minor Fantasia opens this memorable and imaginatively devised recital. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2008
Catalogue No: CDA67598
Label: Hyperion
Length: 70 minutes

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Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K475

Work length11:35

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Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K333

Work length20:07

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I. Allegro

Track length7:21

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length6:20

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III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length6:26

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Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K396 K385f

Work length9:28

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Cramer, J B: Études, Op 103

Work length2:11

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VI. Hommage à Mozart

Track length2:11

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Excerpt, Mozart: Divertimento No. 17 in D major K334

Work length5:12

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III. Menuetto

Track length5:12

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Hough: Three Mozart Transformations, after Poulenc

Work length6:01

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I. Minuet, K1

Track length2:35

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II. Klavierstück, K33

Track length1:22

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III. Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K596

Track length2:04

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Liszt: Fantasia on two themes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Work length15:26

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Stephen Hough (piano)

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We are delighted to present an eagerly awaited recital disc from Stephen Hough. This fascinating programme begins with some of Mozart’s most audacious and forward-looking piano works. Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor K475 is a wonderfully unfettered and uninhibited work, suffused with high drama and a sense of constantly shifting moods. The Piano Sonata in B flat major K333 is a similarly ground-breaking piece, developing in scale and drama from its lyrical, gentle opening.

The second part of the disc features Mozart as seen by others, from the homage of a near-contemporary right up to the modern day, with Hough’s own irresistibly quirky Mozart imaginings, and from elegant miniatures to Liszt/Busoni’s virtuosic Figaro Fantasy. This disc is full of surprises, and demonstrates the full range of Hough’s extraordinary artistry.

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April 2008

A bold and dramatic account of Mozart's K475C minor Fantasia opens this memorable and imaginatively devised recital.

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Opening with two of Mozart's solo masterpieces, the ear is welcomed into an intimate, pellucid sound world with a sophisticated grading of dynamics. Hough plays with what used to be called 'a quiet hand', particularly effective in the first movement of the B flat major Sonata in which he finds an unexpected melancholy amid the music's basically optimistic character.
After the dramatic second (earlier) C minor Fantasia completed by Stadler, and Cramer's attractive Etude, Op 103 No 6, we seem to be listening to a different pianist who now relishes the delicate, perfumed harmonies of Friedman's Menuetto transcription. In the same vein, but imbued with witty Poulencian devices, Hough the pianist-composer reminds us how important charm is to the pianist's arsenal. Again, the pianist changes. This time we hear a barn-storming virtuoso in the Liszt-Busoni Fantasy on 'Non più andrai' and 'Voi che sapete' from The Marriageof Figaro. More fragmentary than the better- known Don Giovanni Fantasy and not quite as effective, it nevertheless provides a hair-raising bravura display that deserves to be heard more often. At least, when played like this.

There are all too few pianists with the equivalent of Hough’s three Michelin stars … Opening with two of Mozart’s solo masterpieces, the ear is welcomed into an intimate, pellucid sound world with a sophistcated grading of dynamics … [Liszt-Busoni Fantasy on Non piu andrai] provides a hair-raising bravura display that deserves to be heard more often. At least, when played like this

Here’s another winning, imaginatively conceived disc from Britain’s finest pianist … It is unexpected and delightful programme-building. Prized for his pianism, Hough is also a superb Mozartian. He lends these Fantasias an almost Beethovenian weight and depth of expression … Hough’s playing is dazzling throughout

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