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\"Pianist
Stephen Hough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pianist Stephen Hough returns to Australia in April for his fourth tour with Musica Viva.<\/p>\n

The British-Australian pianist is a familiar and well-loved face to Australian audiences. Stephen Hough, whose father was born in Newcastle (Australia), \u00a0is a true polymath, being a gifted writer, composer and painter in addition to his pianism. He is also a noted connoisseur of fine tea, perfume and hats.<\/p>\n

Hough will open his Australian program with one of Schubert\u2019s late sonatas, a \u2018sonata of sighs\u2019, thought to have been written just after the diagnosis of Schubert’s final illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Schubert there almost isn\u2019t any light at all,\u201d describes Hough. \u201cEven when it goes into the major, it\u2019s more heartbreaking than it is in the minor \u2013 that\u2019s of course something that Schubert does really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hough describes the first half of the programme as a progression from darkness to light and continues, \u201cIn the Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue<\/em> there is this incredible, deep-suffering piece that, at the end, has this amazing opening-out. So you really do come out of the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then follows Hough\u2019s own latest piano work, the Sonata No. 3, \u2018Trinitas\u2019,<\/em> which will make its Australian premiere on this tour.<\/p>\n

In this new sonata, commissioned jointly by the Catholic magazine The Tablet<\/em> and the Barbican Centre, Hough \u2013 whose Catholic faith is a driving force in his creativity \u2013 is inspired by the symbolism of the number three and what he sees as the parallel dogmas of the Trinity in the church and of 12-tone serialism in music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a triptych idea behind this as well: the three movement Schubert, the Franck in three parts, and my sonata being the \u2018Trinitas\u2019,\u201d says Hough.<\/p>\n

The second half of the programme contains pieces by Liszt: selections from the Forgotten Waltzes,<\/em> and from the Transcendental Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a very strong connection with Liszt because I play so much of his music,\u201d says Hough. \u201cBut I see other connections as well; connections between Liszt and Schubert because Liszt\u2019s transcriptions brought Schubert\u2019s song literature to a wider audience. Then Franck\u2019s connection with Liszt: he was someone who lived in Paris in that Lisztian time and began his life writing Lisztian pieces with incredible virtuosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The programme: SCHUBERT Piano Sonata no 14, D.784\/\u00a0FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue\/\u00a0HOUGH Piano Sonata III (Trinitas)\/\u00a0LISZT Valse Oubli\u00e9es no 1 and 2\/\u00a0LISZT Transcendental \u00c9tudes<\/p>\n

Tickets: Call\u00a01800 688 482 or visit musicaviva.com.au\/Hough<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for information on Stephen Hough’s Musica Viva masterclass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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