Stephen Hough in Recital

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Stephen Hough presents a solo recital that explores every side of his artistic personality: thinker, creator and consummate virtuoso.

Hough is a phenomenon amongst pianists: a performer of astonishing technical brilliance with the power to find profundity in even the splashiest piano showpiece. Tonight he traces the darkness-to-light journey of three great pianist-composers – and premieres his own Third Sonata.

But this being Hough, there’ll be more to it than just transcendent performances of great but under-rated music. To celebrate the 175th anniversary of The Tablet, Hough has devised a programme by composers – Schubert, Liszt and Franck - whose spiritual preoccupations match his own; a thought-provoking context for a major new work by one of the few living musicians to have been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.

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The new shining light on the old: Stephen Hough

Frances Wilson, 29th October

Stephen Hough's Barbican concert was carefully constructed to reveal every side of his personality - artistic, creative and philosophical.

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Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)	Piano Sonata no. 14 in A minor, D.784
Franck, César (1822-1890)	Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Hough, Sir Stephen (b. 1961)	Piano Sonata no. 3 "Trinitas” (World première, commissioned to mark the 175th anniversary of The Tablet)
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Valse oubliée in F sharp minor, S215 no.1
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Valse oubliée, S215 no.2
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 11 Harmonies du Soir
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 12 Chasse neige
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Consolation no. 3 in D flat major, S 172
Minkus, Ludwig (1826-1917)	Don Quixote (Excerpt)
Coates, Eric (1886-1957)	By the Sleepy Lagoon