Stephen Hough - Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor & Other Late Masterpieces '2010

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Chopin: Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
02. Chopin: Mazurka No. 40 in F Minor, Op. 63 No. 2
03. Chopin: Mazurka No. 45 in A Minor, Op. 67 No. 4
04. Chopin: Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63 No. 3
05. Chopin: Mazurka No. 49 in F Minor, Op. 68 No. 4
06. Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
07. Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62 No. 1. Andante
08. Chopin: Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62 No. 2
09. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: I. Allegro maestoso
10. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
11. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: III. Largo
12. Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: IV. Finale. Presto non tanto
13. Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57

Stephen Hough joins the celebrations for Chopin’s 200th birthday with a
disc containing much of the composer’s most extraordinary music, written
in the last years of his life where the expressive possibilites of his art were
constantly unfolding as he imbued his favoured forms with previously unknown
levels of complexity and emotional depth. This disc includes the intoxicatingly
ornamented Berceuse Op 57 and the sublime Barcarolle in F sharp major as well as
the Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major and the towering Piano Sonata No 3 in B
minor. Also included are two late Nocturnes which demonstrate how
Chopin’s art had evolved since he first composed in that genre in his
youth. The programme is completed by a selection of Mazurkas, each a tiny jewel,
containing no less mastery than their larger counterparts, and providing moving
sonic evidence of the contemplative profundity of Chopin’s late style.

Stephen Hough’s extraordinarily sensitive playing is informed by his
limitless technique and engaging musical imagination. This is the Chopin of a
true Romantic.

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