Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Christoph von Dohnányi, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Richard Rodgers, Camille Saint-Saëns, Leopold Godowsky, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Anton Rubinstein, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georges Bizet, Edward MacDowell, Roger Quilter, Paul De Schlözer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Amy Woodforde-Finden, Ignaz Friedman, Moriz Rosenthal, Misha Levitzki, Selim Palmgren, Moritz Moszkowski, Carl Czerny, Lowell Liebermann, Vladimir Rebikov, Anatol Lyadov, Jean Henri Ravina, Amy Woodforde-Finden, Carl Tausig
Featured artists:
Hallé Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ronan O’Hora, Bryden Thomson
Some of Stephen Hough’s most exquisite recordings come from his collaborations with EMI and Virgin Classics during this early period, offering a taste of the pianist’s impeccable touch, his musical and intellectual rigor, and his fondness for the short showpieces that filled late 19th-century salons and peppered the 78 rpm records of golden-age pianists. In the two all-Liszt recitals, Stephen Hough is also in his element, creating atmospheric colors, with notes flowing like streams of pearls, shaping and magnifying the dramatic depth of these works. From Mozart to Schumann, Brahms to Britten, looking back at the great virtuoso tradition while looking forward through his own arrangements, Stephen Hough presents, through these early recordings, a fascinating portrait of a young artist whose brilliant, artistic intellect and appetite for creativity remains unmatched today.
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