Stephen Hough's Spanish Album (CD)

With works by: Antonio Soler (1729-1783) , Enrique Granados (1867-1916) , Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) , Federico Mompou (1893-1987) , Federico Longas (1893-1968) , Claude Debussy (1862-1918) , Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) , Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) , Walter Niemann (1876-1953) , Stephen Hough (geb. 1961)

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Soler: Klaviersonate Fis-Dur
+Granados: Valses poeticos
+Albeniz: Evocation; Triana
+Mompou: Pajaro triste; La barca; Secreto; Gitano
+Longas: Aragon
+Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade; La serenade interrompue; La Puerta del Vino
+Ravel / Dumesnil: Piece en forme de Habanera
+Albeniz / Godowsky: Tango
+Scharwenka: Spanisches Ständchen
+Niemann: Evening in Seville
+Houg: On Falla

Artists:: Stephen Hough (Klavier)
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 2005
Item number:: 5242966
UPC/EAN:: 0034571175652
Release date:: 1.11.2006

Stephen Houghs jüngstes Soloablum führt uns durch auf eine farbenfrohe Tour durch Spanien. Es handelt sich dabei um ein wahres Kaleidoskop verschiedenster Blickwinkel aus der Perspektive von Soler, Granados, Albeniz, Debussy, Ravel, Longas, Mompou und einigen mehr.

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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’.

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'Stephen Hough's delicious Spanish Album, a real connoisseur's choice' (Mail on Sunday)

'Everything on this rewarding disc suggests that Hough intuitively feels the idiom in his bones' (Pianist Magazine)

'This is truly one of the loveliest piano compilations around and deserves every recommendation' (Classical. net)

'A ravishing display of light-fingered, insouciant virtuosity' (Classic FM Magazine)

Reviews

FonoForum 07/07: "Ansonsten aber blickt Hough durch jenen Schleier kultiviertester Pianistik, der seine Distanz verrät. Sein Zugriff auf die zentralen Werke, "Evocacion" und "Triana" aus "Iberia", lässt den feinsinnigen Respekt eines Besuchers erkennen. Gerade "Triana" wächst ein koloristisches und rhythmisches Raffinement zu, mit dem Hough der Imitation jener fast animalischen, die Härten nicht scheuenden Wildheit einer Larrocha ausweicht."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Antonio Soler: Sonata Fis-Dur
2 Enrique Granados: Valses poéticos

Iberia Nr. 1-12 (Auszug)

3 Evocación
4 Triana

Impresiones intimas (9 Stücke für Klavier) (Auszug)

5 Pájaro triste
6 La barca
7 Secreto
8 Gitano

9 Federico Longas: Aragón

Estampes (3 Stücke für Klavier) (Auszug)

10 La soirée dans Grenade

Préludes (12 Stücke für Klavier, Heft 1) (Auszug)

11 La sérénade interrompue

Préludes (12 Stücke für Klavier, Heft 2) (Auszug)

12 La puerta del vino

13 Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera (bearb. von Dumesnil)
14 Isaac Albeniz: Tango (bearb. von Godowsky)
15 Xaver Scharwenka: Spanisches Ständchen op. 63 Nr. 1
16 Walter Niemann: Evening in Seville op. 55 Nr. 2
17 Stephen Hough: On Falla

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