Stephen Hough piano

Performers

Stephen Hough

piano

Programme

Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’

Hough

Sonata for Piano (broken branches) (world première)

Skryabin

Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53

Liszt

Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178

About this concert

Who can forget the astonishing painting of Liszt sitting enraptured at the piano and gazing out at the moon surrounded by adoring females? He was probably playing Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, just as Stephen Hough will cast a spell in opening this recital. He will then turn to a brand new work of his own before plunging into the hallucinatory whirlwind world of Skryabin. Liszt himself is represented by the undoubted pinnacle of his piano output.