The Piano Album

The Piano Album

The Piano Album
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Composer: Edward MacDowell
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Roger Quilter
Composer: Ernst von Dohnanyi
Composer: Ignace Jan Paderewski
Composer: Paul de Schlozer
Composer: Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Composer: Amy Woodforde-Finden
Composer: Ignaz Friedman
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Moriz Rosenthal
Composer: Leopold Godowsky
Composer: Mischa Levitzki
Composer: Selim Palmgren
Composer: Moritz Moszkowski
Composer: Carl Czerny
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Anton Rubinstein
Composer: Lowell Liebermann
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Hexentanz
  2. Chant Polonais No. 1 In G 'Maiden's Wish'
  3. The Crimson Petal
  4. The Fuchsia tree
  5. Capriccio In F Minor, Op. 28 No. 6
  6. Minuet In G, Op. 14 No. 4
  7. Nocturne, In B Flat, Op. 16 No. 4
  8. Etude In A-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 2
  9. Melodie In E
  10. Caprice-Burlesque
  11. My Favorite Things
  12. Kashmiri Song
  13. Music Box
  14. The Swan
  15. Papillons
  16. The Gardens Of Buitenzorg- (From 'Java Suite', Book 3)
  17. Waltz In A, Op. 2
  18. En route, Op. 9
  19. Sicilliano, Op. 42 No. 2
  20. Caprice espagnol, Op. 37
Music CD 2
  1. Variations Brillantes Op. 14
  2. The Enchanted Nymph
  3. Der Kontrebandiste
  4. Melody In F
  5. Gargoyles, Op. 29: I. Presto
  6. Gargoyles, Op. 29: II. Adagio semplice, ma con molto rubato
  7. Gargoyles, Op. 29: III. Allegro moderato
  8. Gargoyles, Op. 29: IV. Presto feroce
  9. The Musical Snuffbox
  10. The Musical Snuffbox
  11. Etude de style, Op. 40 No. 1 'Agilite'
  12. Till I Wake
  13. Weep You No More
  14. March Of The Siamese Children
  15. Valse mignone
  16. Serenata, Op. 15 No. 1
  17. Bourree (From Violin Sonata No. 2)
  18. Erinnerungen (Triakontameron No. 25)
  19. Adagietto (From 'L'Arlesienne')
  20. Ungarishe Zigeunerweisen

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Music Review: Great Virtuoso Piano Album! (But Not So Great Track Listings)
Rating: 5 Stars

The other reviewers have already given a pretty good assessment of this 2-CD album of Stephen Hough doing what he does best: playing the hell out of the piano. The 40 mostly quite short pieces provide a good cross-section of piano virtuosity from the compositional perspectives of greats, near-greats, and a few lesser lights. Not the least among them is the pianist himself, represented by some of his song transcriptions.

The disks are generous in quantity as well as quality: each CD holds over an hour of music. They were recorded digitally in London, New York, and Manchester in 1986, 1987, and 1991. The one-page English liner notes by Adélaïde de Place, translated by Hugh Graham, are fine as far as they go, but offer only a brief sketch of the music's background. The track listings are poor: often confusing and entirely incorrect in at least one case. Track 4 attributes The Lotus Tree arrangement by Hough to Ernö von Dohnányi [sic], who had nothing to do with it. The following Capriccio, however, is indeed his work. (And by the way, it's either Ernö Dohnányi in Hungarian--where the last name really ought to come first--or Ernst von Dohnányi in its more common Germanic form.)

Still, I easily give the album the full five stars for its unique assemblage of short virtuoso piano pieces played excellently and recorded in fine sound. It's a valuable asset to the piano music lover's audio collection.

The correct track listing for CD 1 is as follows.

1. MacDowell: Hexentanz
2. Chopin, arr. Liszt: The Maiden's Wish [Zyczenie]
3. Quilter, arr. Hough: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
4. Quilter, arr. Hough: The Fuchsia Tree
5. Dohnányi: Capriccio in F Minor
6. Paderewski: Minuet in G
7. Paderewski: Nocturne
8. de Schlözer: Etude in A-Flat Major
9. Gabrilovich: Mélodie in E
10. Gabrilovich: Caprice-Burlesque
11. Rodgers, arr. Hough: My Favorite Things
12. Woodforde-Finden, arr. Hough: Kashmiri Love Song ("Pale Hands...)
13. Friedman: Musical Box
14. Saint-Saëns, arr. Godowski: The Swan (Le Cygne)
15. Rosenthal: Les Papillons (Butterflies)
16. Godowski: The Gardens of the Buitenzorg
17. Levitzky: Waltz
18. Palmgren: En Route
19. Moszkowski: Siciliano
20. Moszkowski: Caprice Espagnol


P.S. Two especially virtuosic piano pieces are not present: Balakirev's Islamey and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. The former has often been cited as the most difficult piano piece, and the latter was reportedly an attempt to outdo the former in difficulty. The Ravel piece is too long in its entirety for inclusion here, but Islamey would probably fit. The de Schlözer Étude (track 8) has also been cited for its great difficulty.

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