Stephen Hough's Dream Album: Piano Bonbons

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Product Description Few pianists today could devise such a recital—their own transcriptions and variations on well-known classics included as a matter of course—and seldom can these graceful, delightful pieces have had such consummate musicianship lavished on them. Such stuff as dreams are made on Review …there's so much playfulness and charm here…There's also Dohnányi's C major Rhapsody, a virtuoso showstopper stunningly performed by Hough in the very best kind of recorded sound: richly textured, rounded, warm, with seemingly infinite depth…it's hard not to be smitten by the first-class musicianship, delicacy and fancy twinkling and winking…A sweet album, this, superbly played and recorded… --BBC Music Magazine, July 2018 Witty, wistful, extrovert, introspective and cheeky by turn, this is a masterclass in a certain style of piano-playing, and a dream of an album. --Gramophone, July '18 **** It takes a personality of flair now to serve up a few bonbons in a recital and Stephen Hough is a master of the art…The skills needed to bring off a programme like this include sparkling virtuosity and the nonchalance to suggest it was all nothing really. Hough has both, like that magician of the keyboard, Shura Cherkassky, in the previous generation. --Financial Times, 15 June 2018