Although he has had several such discs cobbled together for him by various record companies, pianist Stephen Hough hasn't had a proper recital disc since 1988, when the now-defunct MusicMasters label released a well-received collection entitled My Favorite Things. Mostly he has centered his attention upon single composer albums, recording lots of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Brahms, and others, mainly for Hyperion. Hyperion's Stephen Hough in recital represents a significant departure from that model, being a carefully chosen ...
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Although he has had several such discs cobbled together for him by various record companies, pianist Stephen Hough hasn't had a proper recital disc since 1988, when the now-defunct MusicMasters label released a well-received collection entitled My Favorite Things. Mostly he has centered his attention upon single composer albums, recording lots of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Brahms, and others, mainly for Hyperion. Hyperion's Stephen Hough in recital represents a significant departure from that model, being a carefully chosen potpourri of generally familiar literature recorded at Henry Wood Hall in London over two dates in July 2008. It serves to reacquaint us with what a fine pianist Hough is, but also introduce us to how well he can construct a concert program, as all of these things -- ranging from Beethoven to Debussy and beyond -- tend to interconnect; the opening of Chopin's Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64/2, almost seems to comment on the Weber Aufforderung zum Tanz that precedes it. Hyperion's recording...
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