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Stephen Hough - Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards (180g Vinyl LP)
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Stephen Hough Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards on 180g LP
Sir Stephen Hough’s new solo piano album, Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards, explores the world from the perspective of the itinerant pianist sending home musical messages from his voyages. Music from Asia includes “Spring Breeze Prelude” by Taiwanese composer Deng Yu-Hsien and a piano version of “Aka Tombo,” a children’s song so beloved in Japan that it features in citywide “5-O’clock chimes” across the country. Folk and popular traditions appear in “Cielito Lindo” and “Nature Boy,” while the final group of pieces turns to nature, with works by MacDowell, Schumann and Sinding. Alongside these musical travel diaries, he intersperses new transcriptions of songs from popular films, including arrangements he created for Lang Lang’s Disney Book album. This is the first chance Sir Stephen has had to include piano arrangements of songs from Frozen, Coco and Mary Poppins.
Track Listing
Side A:
- Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): I. Chim chim cher-ee
- Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): II. Feed the Birds
- Mary Poppins Suite (Arr. Hough for Piano): III. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Preludes, Book 3, Op. 12: No. 2 in E-Flat Minor. Prelude No. 14
- Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2 (Arr. Rachmaninoff for Piano)
- Flight of the Bumblebee (Arr. Rachmaninoff for Piano)
- Spring Breeze Prelude (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- Aka Tombo (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- Reflection (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- Remember Me (Arr. Hough for Piano)
Side B:
- Cielito lindo (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- V. Andaluza (Playera)
- Minuet in G Minor, HWV 434/4 (Arr. Kempff for Piano)
- Les sylvains, Op. 60 5. V. Broadway (Midnight)
- No. 2, Etude in A Minor
- Nature Boy (Arr. Hough for Piano)
- Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To a Wild Rose
- Waldszenen, Op. 82: VII. Vogel als Prophet
- Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3
