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Sir Stephen Hough
Image credit: © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Archived Event

Debussy, Liszt, Mompou, Sir Stephen Hough and Skryabin
Sir Stephen Hough piano
Date
Thu 07 Sep 2023, 7.30pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Sir Stephen Houghpiano

Programme

Interval

  • Franz Liszt
    1811-1886
      • Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161
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      • Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47
      • Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104
      • Sonetto del Petrarca No. 123
      • Après une lecture du Dante

Encore

Overview

A much-loved artist and indeed polymath provides the season opener with a characteristically varied programme, beginning with music by a Catalan composer he has championed, and including one of his own works for piano – a look into the past dating from 2019. Of a previous traversal of the Liszt pieces, The Guardian praised his ‘spellbinding aura of intimacy’ and a ‘simply blistering account of the sonata with its elements of fantasy.’

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