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Classical Music

Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall

On 27 Oct 15, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Garlanded British pianist Stephen Hough plays Schubert, Liszt and Franck, and premieres his own Piano Sonata No.3

By CW Contributor on 26/1/2015

Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall
Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall
Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall Joe Lloyd
Booking is open to Barbican Members on the 28th January 2015.

Stephen Hough has an illustrious musical background. A finalist in the BBC Young Musician scheme before winning the Terence Judd Award and the Naumburg International Piano Competition, he now stands at the forefront of British romantic music, with over fifty recordings. Gramophone voted his version of Saint-Saëns’ piano concertos the finest album in thirty years, and live reviewers have noted his eloquence, clarity and ability to find lyrical potency in the knottiest of compositions.

Hough’s recital at the Barbican Hall will centre around the world premiere of his own Sonata No. 3, a work composed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the international Catholic magazine The Tablet. Hough, himself a committed Christian, is sure to have crafted a work of spiritual potency.

But that’s not all – the new piece will be accompanied by masterpieces from three composers whom Hough believes to echo his religious concerns - Schubert, Liszt and Franck. The former’s Piano Sonata No. 14 (1823), one of his final works for the instrument, is one of the most tragic in the repertoire. Franck’s Prélude, Chorale and Fugue (1884), originally written for organ, is a prime example of the composer’s distinctive cyclic style. After Liszt’s astonishingly proto-modernist Valse Oubliées No. 1 & 2 (1881-4), the evening closes with No. 11 & 10 of his Transcendental Études (1852), rhapsodic studies that respectively push harmony and melody to their extremity.


What Stephen Hough, Barbican Hall
Where Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS | MAP
Nearest tube Barbican (underground)
When On 27 Oct 15, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Price £10-25
Website Click here to book via the Barbican website

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  • What the critics say

    VANITY FAIR

    "He can power through man-eating Liszt and Tchaikovsky concerti with the best of them. But for Hough God is mostly in the details - the beautifully articulated inner voices, the crystaline clarity of lyrical passages, the precision of the pedal."

    Annalyn Swan

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    "There's nothing showy about Hough; his astonishing technique is put entirely at the service of the music. Whether he's tenderly caressing the exquisite slow movement or dashing through the quicksilver finale, it's always all about the piece, not the performer."

    Stephen Pritchard

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