Stephen Hough's Dream Album
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Stephen Hough's Dream Album
Stephen Hough (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 June 2018
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Few pianists today could devise such a recital- their own transcriptions and variations on well-known classics included as a matter of course-and seldom can these graceful, delightful pieces have had such consummate musicianship lavished on them. Such stuff as dreams are made on …
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Instrumental
"This is a lovely CD full of dreams. It ends in exquisite fashion with 'Jeunes filles au jardin:by Mompou. Hough tells us that it was one of the very first pieces he listened to when first learning to play the piano, and he has used its gentle beauty as an encore piece ever since. I really enjoyed this CD; it is beautifully recorded and presented and has given me hours of relaxed enjoyment." MusicWeb June 2018
"Childhood memories are summoned, plus people and places…Indeed, there's so much playfulness and charm here that the listener might well pant for some extra ballast from meatier things. It comes eventually from 'Harmonies du soir' and the F minor Etude from Liszt's Transcendental Studies, both of them majestically, opulently despatched…But still lighter items dominate…A sweet album, this, superbly played and recorded." BBC
"A bran tub of bonbons, yes, but much more than that: it is also a portrait of an artist in love with music of all sorts (including, with no apology, the unfashionable and the second-rate if it happens to appeal to him), of a master transcriber and of that rare animal, a concert pianist who is not afraid to mix high jinks with high art...Witty, wistful, extrovert, introspective and cheeky by turn, this is a masterclass in a certain style of piano-playing, and a dream of an album." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2018
Tracks:
1 HOUGH Radetzky Waltz [5'20]
2 HENRY LOVE Das alte Lied [2'26]
3 JULIUS ISSERLIS In the Steppes [1'17]
4 MINKUS Kitri's variation [1'18]
5 MINKUS Dulcinea's variation [2'06]
6 SOLOVYOV-SEDOY Moscow Nights [2'10]
7 LISZT Harmonies du soir [9'01]
8 LISZT Étude in F minor [5'01]
9 ALBÉNIZ Capricho Catalan [3'40]
10 PONCE Intermezzo [2'19]
11 DOHNÁNYI Rhapsody in C major [4'47]
12 SIBELIUS The spruce [2'40]
13 SEYMER Solöga [3'00]
14 CHAMINADE Pas des écharpes [4'52]
15 HOUGH Niccolo's Waltz [2'22]
16 HOUGH Osmanthus Romp [1'05]
17 HOUGH Osmanthus Reverie [2'22]
18 COATES By the sleepy lagoon [3'19]
19 TATE Somewhere a voice is calling [2'36]
20 HOUGH Matilda's Rhumba [2'13]
21 HOUGH Iver-song (Lullaby) [1'36]
22 DVORÁK Humoresque [3'07]
23 DVORÁK Songs my mother taught me [2'01]
24 ELGAR Salut d'amour [2'54]
25 TRADITIONAL Blow the wind southerly [2'17]
26 HOUGH Lullaby [1'21]
27MOMPOU Jeunes filles au jardin [2'42]
