Sir Stephen Hough, piano

One of the most distinctive artists of his generation, Sir Stephen Hough performs works by Schubert, Brahms, and Beethoven, along with his own arrangement of the suite from Mary Poppins. 

Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Hough was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2001). He was awarded Northwestern University’s 2008 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010, and in 2016 was made an Honorary Member of RPS. In 2014 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2022. 

“Hough’s dazzlingly ingenious and hilarious arrangement of the Sherman brothers’ Mary Poppins song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, garlanded with demented decorations, tiny echoes of classical greats (Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov) and all the fun of the fair.” (The Times) 

Please join us! This concert is preceded by a short performance by talented students of The Royal Conservatory. Prelude Recital starts at 1:45pm. 


PROGRAM:  
Franz Schubert: Klavierstück No. 2 in E flat Major, D. 946 
Johannes Brahms: Klavierstuck No. 6 in E flat Minor, op. 118 
Arnold Schoenberg: 6 Kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19  
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück III  
Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 10 in A Major, op. 119 
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53 (“Waldstein”) 
Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op. 9  
Richard M. Sherman: Mary Poppins Suite (arr. Hough)  
     1) Chim Chim Cheree 
     2) Feed the Birds 
     3) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 

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