Towards the psychoanalysis of piano morsels
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
In the hands of anyone other than Stephen Hough, this album would be either a horrible indulgence or a public act of psychoanalysis. Hough is far too fastidious a pianist to be suspected of such temptations. What we have here are morsels by composers great and (mostly) small, evoking a trance-like state between sleep and wakefulness.
I’m not sure about Hough’s opening setting ….
Read on here.
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