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Stephen Hough: Vida breve
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA68260
Barcode: 0034571282602
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th January 2021
To call this a concept album would be to diminish its power and timeliness. It is both a meditation on the fragility of life and a Bergmanesque game of chess with Death, for which Hough has laid out his pieces and pawns in a masterstroke of programming. ... In the Chaconne, Hough realises Busoni’s gothically enhanced architecture with a palette of orchestral timbres from clangorous bells – making full use of the brightness of his chosen Yamaha – to the tenderest silken threads. ... Two of Hough’s own arrangements, of a Korean traditional song and of Gounod/Bach, are at once transcendental and defiant: checkmate Death. 
