MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Piano Album Vol 1
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Piano Album Vol 1
Stephen Hough (piano)
[ Virgin Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 October 2005
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"I rarely make recommendations like this, but you absolutely must hear this recording."
(Amazon.com)
" am a pianophile and longtime record collector, and this is one of the most awe-inspiring recordings I have ever heard. Stephen Hough's pianism - and I don't mean to be hyperbolic - simply exhausts all adjectives one might try to use to describe it. This is the kind of album to listen to not so much for the music (though these are charming and now-rarely heard pieces) but for the artistry of the performer. For stunning virtuosity, listen to the final measures of the Moszowski piece or to the MacDowell; for rich tone and melting legato listen to Hough's own transcriptions of the two Roger Quilter songs. Out of hundreds of CDs I have heard, this is one of my absolute favorites - and a steal at the price. Stephen Hough is the modern day Cortot, Gieseking, Rachmaninoff, and Joseph Levine, for he has it all - drama, precision, color, intellect, raw strength, and yes - delicacy. I rarely make recommendations like this, but you absolutely must hear this recording."
(Amazon.com)
Tracks:
1. Hexentanz, Op. 17
Composed by Edward MacDowell
2. Work(s) Chant polonais No. 1 in G "Maiden's Wish"
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
3. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2
Composed by Roger Quilter
4. The Fuchsia Tree
Composed by Ernst von Dohnanyi
5. Capriccio in F minor, Op. 28/6
Composed by Ernst von Dohnanyi
6. Humoresques de concert (6), for piano, Op 14, No. 1, Menuett célèbre, Op. 14/1
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
7. Miscellanea for piano, Op 16/s 1-7, complete No. 4, Nocturne in B flat
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
8. Etude for piano in A flat
Composed by Paul de Schlozer
9. Mélodie for piano in E
Composed by Ossip Gabrilovich
10. Caprice-Burlesque for piano, Op 3
Composed by Ossip Gabrilovich
11. My favorite things
Composed by Richard Rodgers
12. Kashmiri Song "Pale Hands I Loved"
Composed by Amy Woodforde-Finden
13. Music Box for piano, Op 33/3
Composed by Ignaz Friedman
14. The Swan (from "Carnival of the Animals"), original (for 2 pianos & ensemble) and arrangements The Swan
Composed by Camille Saint-Saens
15. Les Papillons for piano
Composed by Moriz Rosenthal
and much much more
