Name: Mompou: Música Callada
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Hough is the ideal guide. He wholly inhabits the music’s mystical atmosphere, its holy simplicity. Exquisite sensitivity is matched by a steely strength. Sounds coalesce and insist on their... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2023
Catalogue No: CDA68362
Label: Hyperion
Length: 68 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

February 2023
International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Solo Instrument

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Mompou: Música callada I

Work length18:42

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Stephen Hough (piano)

I. Angelico

Track length1:48

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II. Lent

Track length1:40

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III. Placide

Track length1:42

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IV. Afflitto e penoso

Track length2:36

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V. [crotchet = 54]

Track length2:31

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VI. Lento

Track length1:42

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VII. Lento

Track length3:10

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VIII. Semplice

Track length0:44

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IX. Lento

Track length2:49

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Mompou: Música callada II

Work length14:39

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Stephen Hough (piano)

I. Lento: Cantabile

Track length1:38

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II. Allegretto

Track length1:22

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III. Lento

Track length2:28

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IV. Tranquillo: Très calme

Track length2:09

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V. Severo: Sérieux

Track length2:05

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VI. Lento: Plaintif

Track length2:34

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VII. Calme

Track length2:23

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Mompou: Música callada III

Work length13:29

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Stephen Hough (piano)

I. Lento

Track length2:43

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II. Luminoso

Track length2:01

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III. Tranquillo

Track length2:20

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IV. Calme

Track length3:35

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V. Lento

Track length2:50

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Mompou: Música callada IV

Work length21:36

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Stephen Hough (piano)

I. Molto lento e tranquillo

Track length2:24

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II. Calme, avec clarté

Track length2:20

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III. Moderato

Track length2:51

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IV. [crotchet = 100]

Track length3:18

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V. Lento

Track length3:22

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VI. Lento molto

Track length3:41

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VII. Lento

Track length3:40

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The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs awarded a rosette to Stephen Hough’s earlier Gramophone Award-winning Hyperion recording of Mompou, and this successor is equally fine. Música callada comprises twenty-eight exquisite miniatures, brief in duration yet rich in allusion: music which makes its mark with subtlety, understatement and a unique economy of means.

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March 2023

Hough is the ideal guide. He wholly inhabits the music’s mystical atmosphere, its holy simplicity. Exquisite sensitivity is matched by a steely strength. Sounds coalesce and insist on their presence, before disappearing into the ether. Austerity blends with warmth.

March 2023

He brings focus and variety to each of these aural morsels, amply rewarding the concentration required on the part of the listener.

February 2023

Hough's 1998 recording of Mompou's piano music was my first introduction to the Spanish-Catalan composer's introspective world, and this sequel is every bit as mesmerising. In Hough's hands, each of these elusive miniatures feels like a tiny meditation, and every subtle shift in mood and texture is immaculately judged - set aside an hour to listen to the whole thing undisturbed and I promise you'll feel your equilibrium shift.

3rd February 2023

For repertoire like this, a pianist with a delicate touch is essential, and Hough’s subtleties are never-ending. Through minute gradations of dynamics or the fragile sculpting of a phrase, the sparest and simplest of these pieces assume a rare beauty.

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