Stephen Hough's Dream Album

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CDA68176
Label: Hyperion
Length: 79 minutes

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Hough: Radetzky Waltz

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Stephen Hough (piano)

Love: Das Alte Lied (from The Third Man)

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Isserlis, J: Memories of Childhood, Op. 11

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II. In the Steppes

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Minkus: Don Quixote

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Extract. Kitri's variation

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Extract. Dulcinea's variation

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Soloviev-Sedoy: Moscow Nights

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Excerpt, Liszt: Transcendental Studies, S139 Nos. 1-12

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XI. Harmonies du soir

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X. Étude in F minor

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Albéniz: España '6 hojas de album', Op 165

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V. Capricho Catalan

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Ponce, M: Intermezzo No. 1

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Excerpt, Dohnányi: Four Rhapsodies, Op. 11

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No 3 in C major. Vivace

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Excerpt, Sibelius: Five Pieces, Op. 75 'The Trees'

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V. Kuusi 'The spruce'

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Excerpt, Seymer: Sommarcroquiser, Op. 11

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III. Solöga 'Sun-eye'

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Excerpt, Chaminade: Suite de piano

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No 3 'Scarf dance'. Pas des écharpes

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Hough: Niccolo's Waltz

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Hough: Osmanthus Romp

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Hough: Osmanthus Reverie

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Coates, E: By the Sleepy Lagoon

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Tate, A: Somewhere a voice is calling

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anon.: Matilda's Rhumba

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Hough: Iver-song 'Lullaby'

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Excerpt, Dvořák: Humoresques, Op. 101

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No 7 in G flat major. Poco lento e grazioso

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Excerpt, Dvořák: Gypsy Melodies (7), Op. 55 (B104)

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IV. Songs my mother taught me

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Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12

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anon.: Blow the wind southerly

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Hough: Lullaby

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Mompou: Scenes d'enfants

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V. Jeunes filles au jardin

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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 …

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July 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.

15th June 2018

It takes a personality of flair now to serve up a few bonbons in a recital and Stephen Hough is a master of the art…The skills needed to bring off a programme like this include sparkling virtuosity and the nonchalance to suggest it was all nothing really. Hough has both, like that magician of the
keyboard, Shura Cherkassky, in the previous generation.

July 2018

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.

June 2018

A spellbinding nocturnal journey from Hough, which mixes his own arrangements and compositions with unabashedly sentimental miniatures by the likes of Eric Coates, Cécile Chaminade and Leon Minkus; just as you’re being lulled into a pleasant state of indulgent indolence, blistering accounts of two of Liszt’s Transcendental Études serve as a reminder that things do indeed go bump in the night.

17th June 2018

His musical memories, right back to infancy, seem to float in the air, in one long delectation.

Pianist Magazine October 2018

The glory of the album lies in its demonstration of Hough’s gifts as arranger, transcriber and composer. I would go a long way just to hear him play his two-minute arrangement of Blow the wind southerly, with its shimmering layers of colour and a deceptive simplicity. This is pianism of the highest order.

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