Stephen Hough - Broken Branches
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISCD1952
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 31st October 2011
Contents
Works
BridgewaterHerbstlieder (5)
Piano Sonata 'Broken Branches'
Piccolo Sonatina
The Loneliest Wilderness
Was mit den Tranen geschieht
Artists
Stephen Hough (piano)Michael Hasel (piccolo)
Marion Reinhard (bassoon, contrabassoon)
Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Conductor
Gabor Takacs-NagyWorks
BridgewaterHerbstlieder (5)
Piano Sonata 'Broken Branches'
Piccolo Sonatina
The Loneliest Wilderness
Was mit den Tranen geschieht
Artists
Stephen Hough (piano)Michael Hasel (piccolo)
Marion Reinhard (bassoon, contrabassoon)
Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Conductor
Gabor Takacs-NagyAbout
Having composed music from the age of six, the 2005 work The Loneliest Wilderness was the ‘first serious piece in two decades’, but this has been followed by a steady stream of works.
The principal work on this disc is the Sonata for Piano 'Broken Branches', with the premičre having taken place at Wigmore Hall in June 2011. At a glance, the work looks to be a set of miniatures, but Hough maintains there are lots of links between the pieces. And the end marks a return to the beginning, but now autumn has become spring.
This work is accompanied by some of Hough’s other important works: Was mit den Tränen geschieht was commissioned in 2009 by members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and 5 Herbstlieder – a setting of five autumnal poems by Rilke, here performed by baritone Jacques Imbrailo who performed the world premičre of the work in 2010.
The elegiac The Loneliest Wilderness is based on a previous song setting by Hough of a poem by Herbert Read, and again the work was written for a close collaborator of the composer, namely Steven Isserlis who performs it here together with the Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.
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