Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough

 
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STEPHEN HOUGH
Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough
London Choral Sinfonia, James Orford (organ), Michael Waldron (conductor)

[ Orchid Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 15 September 2023

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Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a worldwide career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. ""My father said that I had memorised seventy nursery rhymes by the age of two. This sounds suspiciously like parental exaggeration to me, but I do know that such singing was my first form of musical expression, especially as we had no classical music in my childhood home. Then, by the age of six, the piano took over... but song remained in the background."" ""My first twenty years were filled with composing. Then followed almost twenty years of blank paper, writing virtually nothing except concert transcriptions for me to use as encores. Until, in my early 40s, I returned to composition with a passion..."" This release celebrates Hough's compositional output in works for choir and organ performed by the London Choral Sinfonia, with organist James Orford and conductor Michael Waldron.

Tracks:

Danny Boy
December
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Just as I am
Londinium Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
Marian Hymns (3)
Missa Mirabilis
O soft self-wounding pelican
Sonatina for organ