STEPHEN HOUGH Catalogue of Works
JOSEF WEINBERGER London - Frankfurt am Main - Wien
STEPHEN HOUGH
All photographs Š Grant Hiroshima
W
ith a singular artistic vision that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. In 2001, in recogntion of his achievements, he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, joining prominent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. Stephen Hough has appeared with most of the major European and American orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the major halls, concert series and festivals around the world, including over 20 concerto appearances at the BBC Proms. Recent engagements include performances with the New York and London Philharmonics, the London and San Francisco Symphonies, a US tour with the Russian National Orchestra led by Vladimir Jurowski, and a worldwide televised performance with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. In 2009 Hough became the first British instrumetalist to give a solo recital on the main stage of Carnegie Hall in nearly 20 years. He also peformed all of the works for piano and orchestra of Tchaikovsky over four BBC Proms and returned to the Chicago Symphony in 2010/11 to play the same Tchaikovsky cycle over six concerts. Other engagements include appearances with the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Madrid, Los Angeles, Budapest, Montreal, Houston, Gothenberg, Cleveland and Philadelphia, amongst others.
An exclusive Hyperion recording artist, Hough’s catalogue of over 50 CDs has garnered many international prizes, including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’or, Monde de la musique, several Grammy nominations, and eight Gramophone Magazine Awards, including ‘Record of the Year’ (1996 and 2003), and the Gramophone ‘Gold Disc’ Award (2008), which named his complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos as the best recording of the past 30 years. His 2005 live recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos became the fastest selling recording in Hyperion’s history, while his 1987 recording of Hummel concertos is Chandos’ best-selling disc to date. Stephen Hough is also an avid writer and composer. In addition to scholarly and critically-acclaimed CD liner notes and articles for music publications, he has written for The Guardian, The Times, and in 2008 was invited by the Telegraph Media Group to start a cultural blog. Hough has written extensively about theology for the print media and his book, The Bible as Prayer, was published by Continuum and Paulist Press in 2007. In the same year Hough’s cello concerto The Loneliest Wilderness was premiered by Steven Isserlis and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and two choral works - Mass of Innocence and Experience and Missa Mirabilis were performed at London’s Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral respectively. In 2009 Hough’s trio, Was mit den Tränen Geschieht, commissioned by members of the Berlin Philharmonic, received its world premiere at the Berlin Philharmonie, and a string sextet, Requiem Aeternum: after Victoria, was commissioned by the National Gallery for its major summer exhibition, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700. In 2010, after giving the world premiere of his cycle Herbstlieder at the Oxford Lieder Festival, The Prince Consort commissioned Hough to write a companion song cycle to the two Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer sets, and the resulting work was Other Love Songs. Hough also received a joint commission from Wigmore Hall, Le Musée de Louvre and Musica Viva Australia for the Sonata for Piano (broken branches), which will form the centerpiece of an album of his own works - Broken Branches: music by Stephen Hough scheduled for release in November 2011 on BIS Records. In 2012 the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will perform a newly-commissioned version of Hough’s Missa Mirabilis for choir and orchestra. A resident of London, Stephen Hough is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester. © Stephen Hough
WORKS LIST Cadenzas - Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Hough) Available from Freehand Music (www.freehandmusic.com) *Printed edition in preparation* Cadenzas - Piano Concerto No. 24 K. 491 (Mozart arr. Hough) Available from Freehand Music (www.freehandmusic.com) *Printed edition in preparation* Cadenzas/Fermatas - Piano Concerto No. 21 K. 467 (Mozart arr. Hough) Available from Freehand Music (www.freehandmusic.com) *Printed edition in preparation* Chorale No. 3 (César Franck arr. Hough)
- 2000
Transcription for solo piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-044-4
Matilda’s Waltz (traditional arr. Hough)
- 2008
Transcription for solo piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-666-8
On Falla - 2006 ISMN: 979-0-57005-656-9
Pining for the Spring Breeze (Deng Yu-Sian arr. Hough)
- 2004
Transcription for solo piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-622-4
Pizzicatti (Léo Delibes arr. Hough)
- 2004
Transcription for solo piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-627-9
Radetzky Waltz (Johann Strauss I arr. Hough)
- 2006
ISMN: 979-0-57005-657-6
Rodgers and Hammerstein Transcriptions (Richard Rodgers arr. Hough) - 1998 The Carousel Waltz (Carousel) - My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music) Hello, Young Lovers (The King and I) - March of the Siamese Children (The King and I) ISMN: 979-0-57005-029-1
SOLO PIANO
Sonata for Piano (broken branches) - 2010 ISMN: 979-0-57005-680-4
Song Transcriptions - 1999 Song to the Seals (Granville Bantock) - Was weiss ein nie geküsster Rosenmund (Emmerich Kálmán) The Fuchsia Tree (Roger Quilter) - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Roger Quilter) Weep You No More (Roger Quilter) - Londonderry Air (trad.) Kashmiri Song (Amy Woodforde-Finden) - Till I Wake (Amy Woodforde-Finden) ISMN: 979-0-57005-025-6
Stephen Hough Piano Album - 2000 Etude de Concert (La Russe) - Musical Jewellery Box - Valse enigmatique Sleeping Beauty Paraphrase ISMN: 979-0-57005-043-7
Suite R-B and other Enigmas - 2002 Suite R-B (six movements) - Suite Osmanthus (six movements) - Valse enigmatique No. 2 Petit Impromptu enigmatique - Threnody - Elegy ISMN: 979-0-57005-060-4
Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc) - 2005 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Hough) Minuet (K. 1) - Klavierstück (K. 33) - Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge (K. 596) ISMN: 979-0-57005-640-8
Sonata for Piano (broken branches)
SOLO PIANO
Angelic Song and Angelic Dance - 2002 For violoncello and piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-628-6
Clarinet Trio Transcriptions - 2000 For clarinet in B flat, violoncello and piano Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Johannes Brahms) - Intermezzo No.1 (Johannes Brahms) Intermezzo (Robert Schumann) - Tr채umerei (Robert Schumann) ISMN: 979-0-57005-042-0
Elegy - 2001 For recorder and piano Available from Freehand Music (www.freehandmusic.com) *Printed edition in preparation* Un Piccolo Sonatina - 2008 For solo piccolo ISMN: M-57005-667-5
Threnody - 2006 For guitar *in preparation* Viola Sonata - 1983 For viola and piano Available from Freehand Music (www.freehandmusic.com) *Printed edition in preparation* Was mit den Tr채nen Geschieht - 2008 For piccolo, contrabasson and piano (or piccolo, bass clarinet and piano) ISMN: 979-0-57005-678-1
INSTRUMENTAL AND ENSEMBLE
Un Piccolo Sonatina
Advent Calendar - 2004 For SATB chorus Words by Rowan Williams ISMN: 979-0-57005-624-8
Lullaby - 2004 For voice and piano ISMN: 979-0-57005-623-1
Herbstlieder - 2007 For baritone and piano Words by Rainer Maria Rilke Herbsttag - Klage - Tränenkrüglein - Bestürz Mich, Musik - Herbst
*in preparation* Other Love Songs - 2010 For soprano, mezzo, tenor, bass and piano (3 hands) Words by Claude McKay, Julian of Norwich, Langston Hughes, Laurence Hope, A. E. Housman and from the Gospel of St. John. When I have passed away (baritone) - All shall be well (soprano / mezzo-soprano) The city’s love (tenor) - Madam and her madam (mezzo-soprano) - Kashmiri Song (soprano) Because I liked you better (baritone) - The colour of his hair (all) - Simon, son of John (all) ISMN: 979-0-57005-681-1
Three Grave Songs - 2008 For voice, recorder and violoncello (or voice, violin and violoncello) Requiescat - By Her Aunt’s Grave - In a Breton Cemetery
*in preparation* Three Marian Hymns - 2004 For children’s chorus and organ O Sanctissima - Salve Regina - Ave Maria ISMN: 979-0-57005-625-5
Three Songs from War - 2004 For tenor or high baritone Words by Minnie Lousie Haskins, W. H. Auden and Herbert Read The Gate of the Year - O, What Is That Sound - My Company ISMN: 979-0-57005-621-7
Two Chambers - 2004 Song for baritone and piano Words by Hermann Neumann & George Tyrell ISMN: 979-0-57005-626-2
VOCAL AND CHORAL
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY and other useful information Broken Branches: music by Stephen Hough (title TBC) Includes: Herbstlieder, Sonata for Piano (broken branches), Was mit den Tränen Geschieht, The Loneliest Wilderness (for cello and orchestra), Un Piccolo Sonatina and Bridgewater (for bassoon and piano)
Children’s Cello (with Steven Isserlis)
(BIS) BIS-CD-1592 Released November 2011
(BIS) BIS-CD-1562
Includes: Angelic Song and Angelic Dance
A Mozart Album
(Hyperion) CDA67598
Includes: Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc)
Other Love Songs The Prince Consort
(Linn) CKD382
Includes: Other Love Songs
The Piano Album Includes: The Crimson Petal, Weep You No More (Quilter/Hough), March of the Siamese Children, My Favourite Things (Rodgers/Hough) and Kashmiri Song, Till I Wake (Woodforde-Finden/Hough)
Stephen Hough - in recital
(Virgin Classics) VBD 5614982
(Hyperion) CDA67686
Includes: Matilda’s Waltz (traditional/Hough)
The Stephen Hough Piano Collection
(Hyperion) HOUGH1
Includes: Pining for the Spring Breeze (Deng Yu-Hsien/Hough) and Suite Osmanthus
Stephen Hough’s New Piano Album
(Hyperion) CDA67043
Includes: Was weiss ein nie geküsster Rosenmund (Kálmán/Hough), Musical Jewellery Box, Étude de Concert, Hello Young Lovers (Rodgers/Hough), Carousel Waltz (Rodgers/Hough), Londonderry Air (traditional/Hough) and Sleeping Beauty Paraphrase (Tchaikovsky/ Pabst/Hough)
Stephen Hough’s Spanish Album
(Hyperion) CDA67565
Includes: On Falla
All works in this catalogue are published by Josef Weinberger Ltd, London. Printed editions are available from Faber Music Sales and local music retailers (sales@fabermusic.com / +44 (0)127 982 8982 / www.fabermusicstore.com) Stephen Hough’s website is www.stephenhough.com You can follow his blog at blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/author/stephenhough