Stephen Hough’s Spanish Album - Hough, Stephen (piano)

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(CLASSICSTODAY.com)


Stephen Hough’s latest solo album takes us on a colourful tour of Spain and all things Spanish: a kaleidoscope of slants
and angles on the soul and character of a once exotic and remote country.
Antonio Soler (whose innumerable sonatas were considered sufficiently outlandish to earn him the sobriquet ‘the devil
dressed as a monk’) sets the scene for a sequence of impressionist wonders by Granados, Albéniz and Mompou (a disc
of whose pianistic micro-masterpieces—CDA66963—won for Stephen Hough the 1998 Gramophone Instrumental Award),
and Federico Longas’s insinuatingly virtuosic charmer Aragón.
Hough then allows outsiders a view into the magical kingdom. Debussy and Ravel peer longingly over the Pyrenees,
while Godowsky, Scharwenka, Niemann and finally Hough himself are all in turn unable to resist this richest of cultural
experiences.
Stephen Hough’s esoteric recital CDs rapidly acquire something of a cult status. Classic CD wrote of Stephen Hough’s
New Piano Album CDA67043: ‘This is a terrific disc. A master pianist reminds us that the piano can delight, surprise and
enchant’; while Classic FM Magazine welcomed Stephen Hough’s English Album CDA67267 saying: ‘Hough’s pianism is a
constant source of wonder—every chord and phrase perfectly judged’.
Stephen Hough, piano
THE SPANIARDS

ANTONIO SOLER

1 Sonata in F sharp major Rubio ed. No 90



ENRIQUE GRANADOS

2 Valses poéticos



ISAAC ALBÉNIZ

from Iberia

3 Evocación

4 Triana



FEDERICO MOMPOU

from Impresiones íntimas

5 Pájaro triste

6 La barca

7 Secreto

8 Gitano



FEDERICO LONGAS

9 Aragón



THE FRENCHMEN

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

10 La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes

11 La sérénade interrompue from Préludes Book I
12 La Puerta del Vino from Préludes Book II



MAURICE RAVEL

13 Pièce en forme de Habanera arranged by MAURICE DUMESNIL



THE OTHERS

ISAAC ALBÉNIZ

14 Tango arranged by LEOPOLD GODOWSKY


FRANZ XAVER SCHARWENKA

15 Spanisches Ständchen Op 63 No 1



WALTER NIEMANN

16 Evening in Seville Op 55 No 2



STEPHEN HOUGH

17 On Falla