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Exquis! Stephen Hough presents an enchanting programme of French music, played with the filigree perfection and total command of the music’s expressive world that make him one of the most admired pianists of today. In typical Houghian style this recital is full of surprises and lesser-known gems from the repertoire, as well as works by the masters Fauré, Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc. A particular delight is Hough’s own arrangement of the Massenet song Crépuscule, a ravishing exercise in creative yet faithful transcription. This release is both a tribute to the lyric genius which flowered in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, and a glimpse into the musical mind of a great pianist. “His latest album recital is among the most enjoyable. “A sort of musical dessert trolley,” he calls it — a trolley where you want to eat everything in sight...The Fauré selections best display Hough’s connoisseur’s touch...The lighter French spirit surfaces in Hough’s own arrangements of Délibes and Massenet, delivered with delicious wit and grace.” The Times, 31st August 2012 **** “it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 *** “personal touches make Hough the artist he is, but I can imagine some musical Francophiles balking at his free interpretation of Fauré’s D flat Nocturne, and more so at his eccentric Debussy (Clair de lune). Yet there are compensations aplenty: Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Fauré’s F sharp minor Impromptu are glitteringly played.” Sunday Times, 2nd September 2012 “a substantial feast of of masterly pianism...Hough can be too coolly objective at times but in this repertoire, perhaps paradoxically, the expressive simplicity of his playing can make your eyes burn. In Clair de lune and Chaminade's once ubiquitous Automne, now rarely heard, Hough conjures up a heart-catching melancholy that put me in mind of Cherkassy. I can't offer higher praise.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 “[Hough’s] one of those keyboard polymaths who’s at home in whatever music he chooses to play, invariably casting new light on the familiar in the process. And the better-known items here do delight...But you’ll want this for the rarities...playing and recording are beyond reproach.” The Arts Desk, 6th October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Albéniz: | Tango (No. 2 from Espana, Op. 165) | Bach, J S: | Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 5 in D major, BWV850 arr. Hess Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude arr. Hess | Bartók: | Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110 with Brenda Lucas (piano) & James Holland, Tristan Fry (percussion) | Beethoven: | Andante Favori in F, Wo057 Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) | Birtwistle: | Precis | Blake, D: | Variations for Piano | Busoni: | 10 Variations on Chopin’s C minor Prelude (revised 1922 version of Op. 22) Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 Men’s voices of the John Alldis Choir & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Revenaugh Turandots Frauengemach (Intermezzo), No. 4 from Elegies Sonatina No. 6 (Chamber Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen) | Chaminade: | Automne, Op. 35 No. 2 | Chopin: | Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary' Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop' Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7 No. 1 Mazurka No. 23 in D major, Op. 33 No. 2 Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' | Davies, Maxwell: | Five Piano Pieces, Op. 2 | Debussy: | Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) Préludes - Book 1: No. 11, La Danse de Puck Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin | Dukas: | Piano Sonata in E flat minor | Dutilleux: | Piano Sonata | Fauré: | Ballade in F sharp major for solo piano or piano & orchestra, Op. 19 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux | Franck, C: | Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra, M46 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli | Glazunov: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 92 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund | Goehr: | Pieces (3), Op. 18 | Granados: | Goyescas: Quejas ó La Maja y el Ruiseñor | Grieg: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 New Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Berglund Lyric Pieces Op. 65: No. 6 - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen | Hall, Richard: | Suite | Headington: | Toccata | Hoddinott: | Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 27 | Ibert: | Le petit âne blanc (from Histoires) | Ireland: | The Holy Boy April | Liszt: | Fantasy on Hungarian Folk-tunes, S123 Rhapsodie espagnole, S254 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Liebestraum, S541 No. 1 (Nocturne in A flat major) Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 Two Concert Studies, S145/R6: Gnomenreigen; Waldesrauschen Trauer-Vorspiel und Trauermarsch, S206 (1885) En rêve - Nocturne S207 Réminiscences de "Don Juan" (after Mozart), S. 418 Réminiscences de Simone Boccanegra, S.438 Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 7) Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Mephisto Waltz No. 3 Csárdás macabre, S. 224 Polonaise No. 2 in E major, S223 No. 2 Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 15 in A minor 'Rákóczy Marsch' Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 2 Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 3 arr. Busoni Funérailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 No. 7) Valse oubliée No. 1, S.215/1 | Litolff: | From Concerto symphonique, No. 4 Op. 102: Scherzo City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux | Mendelssohn: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 London Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 London Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato Rondo brillant in E flat major, Op. 29 London Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato | Messiaen: | Cantéyodjayâ | Moszkowski: | Waltz in E major, Op. 34 No. 1 | Mozart: | Fantasia in D minor, K397 | Ogdon: | Piano Concerto No.1 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster Piano Sonata Theme and Variations | Poulenc: | Mouvement perpétuel No. 1 in C major | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39 Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor | Rawsthorne: | Ballade | Schmitt, F: | Mirages, Op. 70 | Schumann: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 New Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Berglund Nachtstücke, Op. 23 No. 4 | Scott, C: | Lotus Land, Op. 47 No. 1 (W183) Danse nègre, Op.58 No.5 (W89) | Sherlaw Johnson: | Piano Sonata No. 2 | Shostakovich: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster | Sinding: | Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring), Op. 32 No 3 | Stevenson: | Passacaglia on D.S.C.H | Tchaikovsky: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli | Tippett: | Piano Concerto Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis Piano Sonata No. 1 'Fantasy Sonata' Piano Sonata No. 2 |
John Ogdon was born on 27th January, 1937 in Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire and died on 1st August, 1989 in London. His first serious study of the piano was at the Royal Manchester College of Music where his contemporaries were Alexander Goehr, Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies; he also studied composition with Richard Hall, all of whom have music recorded in this collection. His prowess was noticed when he replaced an indisposed soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto in Liverpool and played almost at sight. At the age of 21 he made his London debut at the Proms in 1958 with Busoni’s Concerto (which he recorded in 1967). In 1961 he was awarded the Liszt Prize in Budapest and the following year shared the coveted first prize at the Moscow Tchaikovsky competition with Vladimir Ashkenazy; this achievement launched his international career. His recordings from this time not only attest to his remarkable virtuosity and intense musicianship but also his determination to explore both rarer and modern repertoire and give them the performances that show them to their best advantage. This collection therefore contains not merely the classics – concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Schumann and Grieg and solos by Liszt and Chopin – but rarer concertos by Mendelssohn, Glazunov Bartók as well as the aforementioned Busoni. The major contribution to the catalogue of recorded music must be the solo piano works by the 20th century composers: Sir Michael Tippett, Alan Rawsthorne, Alun Hoddinott, Christopher Headington, David Blake, Robert Sherlaw Johnson and his teacher and colleagues from his days in Mancheser: Richard Hall and the previously mentioned Goehr, Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies as well as works by himself. One further work requires especial mention: Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH, the composer’s tribute to Dmitri Shostakovich. At over 85 minutes duration it has to be split across two CDs and the work together with Ogdon’s support of it yielded the highest praise. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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