from In the Night (CDA67996) 1 Préambule: Quasi maestoso [2'12] 29 minutes 47 seconds 21 tracks2 Pierrot: Moderato [1'31] 3 Arlequin: Vivo [1'02] 4 Valse noble: Un poco maestoso [2'10] 5 Eusebius: Adagio [1'37] 6 Florestan: Passionato [0'59] 7 Coquette: Vivo [1'37] 8 Réplique: L'istesso tempo [0'48] 9 Papillons: Prestissimo [0'47] 10 ASCH–SCHA (Lettres dansantes): Presto [0'51] 11 Chiarina: Passionato [1'29] 12 Chopin: Agitato [1'21] 13 Estrella: Con affetto [0'29] 14 Reconnaissance: Animato [1'55] 15 Pantalon et Colombine: Presto [1'01] 16 Valse allemande: Molto vivace [0'51] 17 Paganini (Intermezzo): Presto [1'21] 18 Aveu: Passionato [1'20] 19 Promenade: Comodo [2'39] 20 Pause: Vivo [0'15] 21 Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins: Non allegro [3'32] ‘A new disc from Stephen Hough is always welcome. How will he surprise us this time and where will he take us? … there’s the dark and turbulent eponymous tone-poem and the far-from-restful presto ... BBC Music Magazine ‘Hough's Sonata unfolds … with an immediately apparent structural logic and a harmonic vocabulary that conveys vivid emotional narrative. As one would expect from a pianist of Hough’s gifts, text ... |