Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards Stephen Hough

• Richard M. Sherman (1928 - 2024), Robert B. Sherman (1925 - 2012): Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano):
• 1 Sherman, Sherman: Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): I. Chim chim cher-ee 02:17
• 2 Sherman, Sherman: Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): II. Feed the Birds 03:14
• 3 Sherman, Sherman: Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): III. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 03:36
• Abram Chasins (1903 - 1987): Preludes, Book 3, Op. 12:
• 4 Chasins: Preludes, Book 3, Op. 12: No. 2 in E-Flat Minor. Prelude No. 14 01:35
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): 13 Preludes, Op. 32:
• 5 Rachmaninoff: 13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor. Allegro 02:39
• Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962): Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2:
• 6 Kreisler: Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2 (Arr. Rachmaninoff for Piano) 04:55
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908): The Tale of Tsar Saltan:
• 7 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee (Arr. Rachmaninoff for Piano) 01:10
• Deng Yu-Hsien (1906 - 1944): Spring Breeze Prelude:
• 8 Yu-Hsien: Spring Breeze Prelude (Arr. Hough for Piano) 02:33
• Kōsaku Yamada (1886 - 1965): Aka tombo:
• 9 Yamada: Aka tombo (Arr. Hough for Piano) 02:07
• Kristen Anderson-Lopez (b. 1962), Robert Lopez (b. 1975): Do You Want to Build a Snowman?:
• 10 Anderson-Lopez, Lopez: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Arr. Hough for Piano) (From "Frozen") 02:25
• Matthew Wilder (b. 1953): Reflection:
• 11 Wilder: Reflection (Arr. Hough for Piano) (From "Mulan") 02:50
• Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez: Remember Me:
• 12 Anderson-Lopez, Lopez: Remember Me (Arr. Hough for Piano) (From "Coco") 02:47
• Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (1862 - 1957): Cielito lindo:
• 13 Mendoza y Cortés: Cielito lindo (Arr. Hough for Piano) 02:50
• Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916): Danzas españolas, Op. 37: V. Andaluza
• 14 Granados: Danzas españolas, Op. 37: V. Andaluza (Playera) 04:02
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Minuet in G Minor, HWV 434/4:
• 15 Handel: Minuet in G Minor, HWV 434/4 (Arr. Kempff for Piano) 03:13
• Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944): Toccata, Op. 39:
• 16 Chaminade: Toccata, Op. 39 03:30
• Thème varié in A Major, Op. 89:
• 17 Chaminade: Thème varié in A Major, Op. 89 04:19
• Les sylvains, Op. 60:
• 18 Chaminade: Les sylvains, Op. 60 04:10
• Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891): Le roi s'amuse, Scène du bal:
• 19 Delibes: Le roi s'amuse, Scène du bal: VI. Passepied (Version for Piano) 01:37
• Malcolm Williamson (1931 - 2003): Travel Diaries, Paris:
• 20 Williamson: Travel Diaries, Paris: II. Flower-Sellers (Place de la Madeleine) 01:51
• Travel Diaries, New York:
• 21 Williamson: Travel Diaries, New York: V. Broadway (Midnight) 01:58
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957): 13 Pieces for Piano, Op. 76:
• 22 Sibelius: 13 Pieces for Piano, Op. 76: No. 2, Etude in A Minor 01:33
• Eden Ahbez (1908 - 1995): Nature Boy:
• 23 Ahbez: Nature Boy (Arr. Hough for Piano) 04:13
• Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908): Woodland Sketches, Op. 51:
• 24 MacDowell: Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To a Wild Rose 02:02
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Waldszenen, Op. 82:
• 25 Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82: VII. Vogel als Prophet 02:42
• Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941): Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3:
• 26 Christian Sinding: Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3 02:55
• Total Runtime 01:13:03

Info for Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards

Sir Stephen Hough’s new solo piano album ‘Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards’ explores the world from the perspective of the itinerant pianist sending home musical messages from his voyages. Stephen picks beloved songs and tunes from around the world—from Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Spain and beyond—then wittily re-imagines them for the piano. These deft new arrangements form a homage to the countries he has come to love over a lifetime of travelling and performing, musical morsels sent home to us his listeners for aural delectation.

Sir Stephen Hough picks favourite songs and tunes from around the world, re-imagining them for solo piano in deft new arrangements: acts of homage to the countries he has come to love over a lifetime of travelling and performing.

"Postcards suggest many things for me: travel, of course, greetings sent across the seas, “wish you were here”; but also writing to someone from home, a few words often meaning more than they say." (Stephen Hough)

Sir Stephen Hough, piano

Sir Stephen Hough
Named by The Economist as one of twenty living polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines the distinguished career of a concert pianist with those of a composer and writer. In recognition of his contribution to cultural life, he became the first classical performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship, and was awarded a knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2022.

In a career spanning over forty years, Hough has played regularly with most of the world’s leading orchestras, including televised and filmed appearances with the Berlin, London, China, Seoul and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival and NHK Symphony Orchestras. He has been a regular guest of recital series and festivals including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Salzburg, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Aspen, Tanglewood, Aldeburgh and Edinburgh. Hough’s 2024/25 concert season began with his thirtieth appearance at the BBC Proms, performing at the Last Night of the Proms to a live audience of 6,000 and a televised audience of 3.5 million.

Hough’s discography of seventy recordings has garnered awards such as the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, several Grammy nominations and eight Gramophone Awards, including Record of the Year and the Gold Disc. For Hyperion he has recorded the complete piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky as well as celebrated solo recordings of Brahms’s final piano works, Chopin’s complete nocturnes, waltzes, ballades and scherzos, and recitals of Schumann, Schubert, Franck, Debussy, Mompou and Liszt.

As a composer, Hough’s Fanfare Toccata was commissioned for the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and performed by all thirty competitors. His 2021 String Quartet No 1 ‘Les Six rencontres’ was written for and recorded by the Takács Quartet for Hyperion. The premiere of Hough’s Willa Cather-inspired Piano Quintet, at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, followed the 2024 first performance of his Piano Concerto ‘The world of yesterday’, which he brings to the Adelaide, Bournemouth, Oregon, Singapore and Vermont Symphony Orchestras. Hough’s songs and choral and instrumental works have been commissioned by the Musée du Louvre, National Gallery (London), Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Wigmore Hall, the Genesis Foundation, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Walter W Naumburg Foundation, BBC Sounds and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. His music is published by Josef Weinberger Ltd.

As an author, Hough’s memoir Enough: Scenes from Childhood was published by Faber & Faber in 2023. It follows his 2019 collection of essays Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More which received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and was named one of the Financial Times’s Books of the Year. His novel The Final Retreat was published in 2018 (Sylph Editions). He has also written for The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and the Evening Standard. Hough is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple, an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, an Honorary Fellow of Cambridge University’s Girton College, the International Chair of Piano Studies and a Companion of the Royal Northern College of Music, and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York.

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