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Edinburgh International Festival

Music: Classical

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Edinburgh International Festival: 2016 Queen's Hall Series

Edinburgh International Festival: 2016 Queen's Hall Series: Episode 9: Stephen Hough

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Episode 9

Episode 9: Stephen Hough

2016 Queen's Hall Series

Stephen Hough

BBC Radio 3 - Edinburgh International Festival, 2016 Queen's Hall Series, Stephen Hough

Pianist Stephen Hough plays Schubert, Franck, Liszt and his own work at the Queen's Hall.

Pianist and polymath Stephen Hough performs works by player-composers with spiritual overtones including Schubert, Franck, Liszt and his own Third Piano Sonata.

British pianist and polymath Stephen Hough brings a programme of player-composers to this year's Edinburgh International Festival recital. Schubert's introverted Sonata in A minor written after a nearly fatal bout of syphilis has a tragic and fatalistic trajectory towards death. This complements César Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue - inspired by the master of this form, JS Bach, and revealing Franck's need to write spiritually as a reaction against the many showpieces of the day. Stephen Hough's own Piano Sonata III 'Trinitas' is a commission from the Catholic magazine The Tablet, celebrating their 125th anniversary, and received its premiere in October 2015 in London. As he says himself it 'is not a great declaration of faith, but just an abstract idea of three as a concept'. Hough rounds off the recital with the contrasting dazzling virtuosity of piano-composer Liszt pianist.


Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D784
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

11.45 Interval
Donald Macleod introduces recordings by baritone Florian Boesch, also appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival 

12.05
Hough: Piano Sonata III 'Trinitas'
Liszt: Valses Oubliées Nos 1 and 2
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes Nos 11 and 10.

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Concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh for the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival.

Concerts given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh as part of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival

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