Hough Mozart Album-mozart, Cramer, Friedman, Hough, Liszt

Stephen Hough's Mozart Album
Stephen Hough (piano)

We are delighted to present an eagerly awaited recital disc from Stephen Hough. This fascinating programme begins with some of Mozart’s most audacious and forward-looking piano works. Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor K475 is a wonderfully unfettered and uninhibited work, suffused with high drama and a sense of constantly shifting moods. The Piano Sonata in B flat major K333 is a similarly ground-breaking piece, developing in scale and drama from its lyrical, gentle opening.
The second part of the disc features Mozart as seen by others, from the homage of a near-contemporary right up to the modern day, with Hough’s own irresistibly quirky Mozart imaginings, and from elegant miniatures to Liszt/Busoni’s virtuosic Figaro Fantasy. This disc is full of surprises, and demonstrates the full range of Hough’s extraordinary artistry.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-1791]
Fantasia in C minor, K475
Piano Sonata in B flat major, K333

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Maximilian Stadler [1748-1833]
Fantasia in C minor, K396 K385f

Johann Baptist Cramer [1771-1858]
Études, Op 103 No 6: Hommage à Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Ignacy Friedman [1882-1948]
Divertimento No 17 in D major, K334, Movement 3: Menuetto

Stephen Hough [1961-]
Three Mozart Transformations, after Poulenc

Franz Liszt [1811-1886] & Ferruccio Busoni [1866-1924]
Fantasia on two themes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Recording details: November 2006
St George's, Brandon Hill, United Kingdom