Stephen Hough's New Piano Album: Encores by Schubert, Chaminade, Tchaikovsky, Richard Rodgers, Hough etc.

Featuring

Stephen Hough
Franz Liszt
Leopold Godowsky
Franz Schubert
Moritz Moszkowski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Cécile Chaminade
Emmerich Kálmán
Richard Rodgers
Anonymous (Traditional)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Earl Wild
Paul Pabst

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Composer Biography

Emmerich Kálmán, a Hungarian contemporary of Bartók and Kodály, abandoned his ambition to be a concert pianist to compose highly successful operettas.

Interpretation

Pianist Stephen Hough prefers the enigmatic approach to encores, similar to Benno Moiseiwitsch, believing that announcing them diminishes the pianist's personal charisma.

Compositional Technique

Stephen Hough's own Étude de Concert is a pastiche of the Slavic piano étude, featuring an ABA form where the A sections' three themes are reduced to half tempo for the B section.

Performer Biography

Stephen Hough is also a keen writer and has provided many of the booklet notes for his recordings, which have received high praise from critics.

Album & Artwork

Stephen Hough's New Piano Album celebrates musical wit and affection, paying tribute to virtues and enchantments that are sadly receding in our increasingly brittle and cynical world.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Stephen Hough's musical choices are often driven by nostalgia, a love for attitudes and emotions from a time when audiences expressed their feelings openly and without embarrassment.

Performer Biography

Stephen Hough has made around thirty recordings, many of which have won international prizes such as the Diapason d'Or, the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Classic CD, and Gramophone Awards.