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Hough stresses the Classical outlook of Chopin's Romanticism, even in a programme encompassing some of his most harmonically advanced music. The opening Barcarolle has rare clarity, and the Berceuse... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Mar 2010
Catalogue No: CDA67764
Label: Hyperion
Length: 73 minutes

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26th April 2010

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Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60

Work length8:32

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 40 in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2

Work length1:42

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4

Work length2:47

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3

Work length2:03

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4

Work length1:41

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Chopin: Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'

Work length13:42

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1

Work length6:46

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2

Work length5:49

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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Work length25:48

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I. Allegro maestoso

Track length9:06

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II. Scherzo: Molto vivace

Track length2:45

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III. Largo

Track length8:43

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IV. Finale: Presto non tanto

Track length5:14

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Chopin: Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57

Work length4:10

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Recording of the Week, Frédéric Chopin

26th April 2010

Stephen Hough and Nelson Freire pay homage to the bicentenary of the Polish composer’s birth, and Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon issue extensive anniversary editions.

Stephen Hough joins the celebrations for Chopin’s 200th birthday with a disc containing much of the composer’s most extraordinary music, written in the last years of his life where the expressive possibilites of his art were constantly unfolding as he imbued his favoured forms with previously unknown levels of complexity and emotional depth. This disc includes the intoxicatingly ornamented Berceuse Op 57 and the sublime Barcarolle in F sharp major as well as the Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major and the towering Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor. Also included are two late Nocturnes which demonstrate how Chopin’s art had evolved since he first composed in that genre in his youth. The programme is completed by a selection of Mazurkas, each a tiny jewel, containing no less mastery than their larger counterparts, and providing moving sonic evidence of the contemplative profundity of Chopin’s late style.

Stephen Hough’s extraordinarily sensitive playing is informed by his limitless technique and engaging musical imagination. This is the Chopin of a true Romantic.

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June 2010

Hough stresses the Classical outlook of Chopin's Romanticism, even in a programme encompassing some of his most harmonically advanced music. The opening Barcarolle has rare clarity, and the Berceuse rounds things off clearly.

May 2010

A new Hough disc is one of life's pleasures…A masterclass in pianistic command and stylistic poise with the most heartfelt playing of any of his recent recordings. There are few who can elucidate the question-and-answer phrasing of Chopin's music with Hough's transparency and unaffected simplicity.

18th April 2010

I was won over by the lovely tone and touch, the seductive warmth and clarity of the inner parts and the beautifully judged rubato. This is unusually forceful Chopin playing — the sonata is like Chopin played by Liszt — but it carries ringing conviction.

15th April 2010

...in every case Hough's command of the music's expressive world is totally convincing...Hough's distinctive voicing of each strand in the musical texture [of Op. 61] is mesmerising. His playing is directly communicative, seductively decorative and, in the sonata, aristocratically controlled.

17th April 2010

Hough’s fingers probe and caress; textures and colours dance and blend with cleansing clarity. Probably the Sonata’s best feature is Hough’s firm grasp of architecture.

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