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by Stephen Hough


  Violin Sonata no. 3 in C minor, op. 13

  Groves, Charles

  Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians

  Gutman, Natalia

  Hagen

  Hallé, Charles

  Hallé Orchestra

  Halstead, Cathy

  Halstead, Peter

  Hamburg

  Hammarskjöld, Dag

  Hanin, Jennifer S. 373

  Hanon, Charles-Louis

  ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’

  Harries, Bishop Richard: God Outside the Box

  Harrison, Beatrice

  Hartley, L. P.

  The Go-Between

  Hasel, Michael

  Hassid, Josef

  Hatto, Joyce

  ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’

  Haydn, Joseph

  symphonies

  Variations in F minor (h. xvii:6)

  Heaven

  Hebrew

  Hell

  Henry Wood Hall

  Hersch, Fred

  Herz-Sommer, Alice

  Hess, Myra

  Hesse, Hermann

  Hindemith, Paul

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hodgkin, Howard

  Hofmann, Josef

  Holkham

  Holland

  Hollywood

  Hollywood Bowl

  Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

  Holman Hunt, William

  Holy Communion

  Homer

  homophobia

  homosexuality

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley

  ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’

  Horowitz, Vladimir

  Horszowski, Mieczysław

  hospices

  Hough, Stephen

  blog

  car accident

  Catholicism

  discography

  sexuality

  The Bible as Prayer: A Handbook for Lectio Divina

  The Final Retreat

  ‘Angelic Song’

  Missa Mirabilis

  Other Love Songs

  Piano Sonata no. 2 (Notturno luminoso)

  Piano Sonata III (Trinitas)

  Sonata for cello and piano left hand

  Sonata for Piano (broken branches)

  Valses Enigmatiques

  ‘Bird Songs at Eventide’ (CD)

  My Favourite Things/The Piano Album I (CD)

  Hradetzky, Gregor

  Huberman, Bronislav

  Hudson, Rosalie

  Hughes, Father Gerard

  humanism

  Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

  Piano Concerto no in B minor, op. 89

  piano concertos

  piano sonatas

  Humphrys, John

  Hyde Park, London

  Hyperion

  identity

  Ignatius, St

  Imbrailo, Jacques

  Imperial Court Hotel, New York

  impressionism

  improvisation

  ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’

  Inglesias, Antonio

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

  iPads

  Islam and music

  Isserlis, Gabriel

  Isserlis, Steven

  ‘The Haunted House’

  Italy

  Izard, Alfred

  Jaeger, August

  James, Epistle of

  Janáček, Leoš

  On an Overgrown Path

  Jansenism

  Jarrett, Keith

  jazz

  Jenkins, Florence Foster

  Jenkins, Frank Lynn

  Jerusalem

  Jesuits

  Jewish identity

  John F. Kennedy Airport, New York

  Jobim, Antônio Carlos: ‘Girl from Ipanema’

  John, St, Gospel According to

  John of the Cross, St: Stanzas concerning an ecstasy experienced in high contemplation

  John Paul II, Pope

  Love and Responsibility

  Johnson, Graham

  Jones, Richard

  Joseffy, Rafael

  Jourdan, Jean-Eric

  Joyce, Eileen

  Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake

  Judaism

  Judas Iscariot

  Judge, Father Mychal

  Juilliard School of Music, New York

  Juilliard String Quartet

  Kagan, Oleg

  Keener, Andrew

  Kennedy, President John F.

  keyboards, electric

  Kilburn, Nicholas

  Kilenyi, Edward

  Kings, First Book of

  Klee, Paul

  Kleiber, Carlos

  Knox, John

  Kodály, Zoltán

  Koestenbaum, Wayne: Humiliation

  Kofman, Roman

  Kraków

  Kreisler, Fritz

  Liebesleid

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kurz, Vilém

  Lamed-waf

  ‘Land of Hope and Glory’

  Lang, Lang

  Lawrence, D. H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  Lazarus

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Leipzig

  L’Engle, Madeleine

  Walking on Water

  A Wrinkle in Time

  Lennon, John

  Lent

  Leoncavallo, Ruggero: I Pagliacci

  Leschetizky, Theodor

  Levin, Robert

  Levine, James

  Lewenthal, Raymond

  Lhévinne, Josef

  Liceo Conservatory, Barcelona

  Lichtenstein, Roy

  Liebermann, Lowell

  piano concertos

  Lieder

  Ligeti, György

  Limbo

  Lincoln Center, New York

  Lipatti, Dinu

  Liszt, Franz

  Années de pèlerinage

  ballades

  Csárdás macabre

  Dante Sonata

  Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este

  Mephisto Waltz no. 1

  Piano Concerto no. 1 in E flat (s. 124)

  Piano Concerto no. 2 in A (s. 125)

  Piano Sonata in B minor (s. 178)

  piano works

  polonaises

  Vallée d’Obermann

  Via Crucis

  Litton, Andrew

  Lock & Co., James

  London Oratory

  London Philharmonic Orchestra

  London Symphony Orchestra

  Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Philharmonic

  ‘Casual Friday’ concerts

  Lowenthal, Jerome

  Luke, St, Gospel According to

  Luther, Martin

  luxury

  Lympany, Moura

  Lyrita

  Maazel, Lorin

  McCawley, Leon

  McCormack, John

  ‘I hear you calling me’

  MacKinlay, Elizabeth (ed.): Ageing, Disability and Spirituality

  Madonna

  Mahanor, Tali

  Mahler, Gustav

  symphonies

  Symphony no. 8 in E flat (‘Symphony of a Thousand’)

  Manchester

  Manhattan

  Mann, Lucy

  Mann, Robert

  Marcel, Gabriel

  Marcus, Adele

  Maritain, Jacques

  Mark, St, Gospel According to

  Marx, Karl

  Mary, mother of Jesus

  Massenet, Jules

  masterclasses

  Mastromatteo, Anthony

  Obsession

  mathematics

  Matthay, Tobias

  Matthew, St, Gospel According to

  Matthews, David

  Mauceri, John

  Medtner, Nikolai

  Mee, Jeff

  Mellers, Wilfrid

  Le Jardin retrouvé

  memory loss

  Mendelssohn, Felix

  ‘Songs without Words’

  Merkin Concer
t Hall, New York

  Merrick, Frank

  Merry del Val, Rafael

  Messiaen, Olivier

  Catholicism

  Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

  metronome

  markings

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo

  Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti

  Middle Temple, London

  Milhaud, Darius

  Millennium Centre, Cardiff

  Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer

  minimalism

  Minnesota

  Minnesota Orchestra

  miscarriage

  modal music

  modernism

  Mompou, Federico

  Canciones y Danzas

  Cants màgics

  Charmes

  Dialogues

  Musica callada

  Paisajes

  Prelude no. 1

  Prelude no

  preludes

  Trois Variations

  Monet, Claude: Impression: soleil levant

  Moore, Gerald

  Moiseiwitsch, Benno

  Mompou, Federico

  monasteries

  Vespers

  Mondrian, Piet

  Montjuic Park, Barcelona

  Montana

  Montebello, Philippe de

  and Martin Gayford: Rendez-vous with Art

  Moore, Gerald

  Moscow

  Motte-Lacroix, Ferdinand

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Don Giovanni

  Piano Concerto no. 9 in E flat (k. 271)

  Piano Concerto no. 21 in C (k. 467)

  piano concertos

  piano sonatas

  Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

  music therapy

  musical memory

  Musical Opinion

  Nashville

  National Gallery, London

  concerts

  Naumburg International Piano Competition

  Nazi era

  Nebraska

  neglected composers

  neglected works

  Nelsons, Andris

  neoclassicism

  Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

  Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

  new age spirituality

  New College, Oxford

  New York

  9/11 attack

  see also individual venues

  New York Philharmonic

  New York Times

  Newcastle, New South Wales

  Newman, Cardinal John Henry

  The Dream of Gerontius

  Ney, Elly

  Nicholas, St

  Notre Dame de Fidélité, Jouques

  ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’

  Ogdon, John

  O’Hora, Ronan

  O’Leary, Father Daniel

  Open University

  opera

  Oramo, Sakari

  Orchestra of the age of Enlightenment

  orchestral standards

  Orlova, Alexandra: Tchaikovsky: A Self-Portrait

  ornamentation

  Orthodox Churches

  O’Sullivan, Father Benjamin

  Oxford, University of

  Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

  Padua

  Paganini, Niccolò

  page-turning

  Paik, Anna

  Paradis, Maria Theresia von: Sicilienne

  Paris

  Paris Exposition 1889

  parlour songs

  Parsons, Geoffrey

  Pascal, Blaise

  Passover

  Patel, Upen

  Paul, St

  Paul Hall, New York

  pentatonic scale

  performance anxiety

  performance practice

  authenticity

  historic

  licence

  performer–composers

  performers

  and emotion

  and repetition

  and risk

  Perlemuter, Vlado

  Petri, Egon

  Philadelphia

  Centennial Exhibition

  Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

  Philharmonic Society, London

  Philipp, Isidore

  Piaf, Edith

  ‘Je ne regrette rien’

  pianissimo

  pianist–conductors

  pianists

  and age

  amateurs

  career structure

  in chamber music

  exercises

  and expressiveness

  fingering

  and homosexuality

  learning works

  memorising works

  memory lapses

  muscle memory

  pedalling

  phrasing

  physicality

  playing with the score

  position

  posture

  and practice pianos

  practising

  projection

  scales and arpeggios

  slow practice

  vibrato

  warming up

  wrong notes

  piano

  action

  domestic use

  finger pedal

  frame

  music desk

  sostenuto pedal

  tuning

  una corda

  voicing

  see also individual manufacturers

  piano rolls, see recording

  pianola

  Picasso, Pablo

  Guernica

  Pischna, Josef

  Pius XII, Pope

  plainsong

  pleasure

  Plunket Greene, Harry

  political attitudes to the arts

  politics

  Pollock, Jackson

  Pop Art

  pop music

  popular music

  portamento

  Portland, Oregon

  Poulenc, Francis

  Catholicism

  The Dialogues of the Carmelites

  Sextet for piano and wind quintet, op. 100

  Prague

  prayer

  and song

  and work

  pre-performance talks

  Presser, Theodore

  Prevel, Roger: La Musique et Federico Mompou

  Prince Consort, The

  Prohibition

  Prokofiev, Sergey

  Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 16

  Piano Sonata no. 6 in A, op. 82

  Protestantism

  Proust, Marcel

  Psyche

  Psycho (film)

  pulse

  Queen’s Hall, London

  Promenade Concerts

  Rachmaninov, Sergei

  Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19

  Études-tableaux, op. 39

  Piano Concerto no. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1

  Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18

  Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30

  Piano Concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40

  piano concertos

  Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36

  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

  Symphony no. 3 in A minor, op. 44

  Rattle, Simon

  Ravel, Maurice

  Ravinia Festival

  recordings

  78s

  acoustics

  cassettes

  chamber music

  classical music

  concert-to-disc

  downloads

  economics

  electronic music

  historic

  ‘live’

  LPs

  with orchestra

  patch sessions

  and ‘perfection’

  piano rolls

  playbacks

  pop music

  retakes

  solo

  studios

  Reed, Carol

  Reed,
Lou

  Reformation

  Regent Street, London

  rehearsals

  public

  Reinhard, Marion

  Rembrandt van Rijn

  Night Watch

  Renaissance style

  restoration (painting)

  Reuben, Steven Carr

  and Jennifer S. Hanin: Becoming Jewish

  Reubke, Julius: Sonata on the 94th Psalm

  Reynolds, Stephen

  Rice, Anne

  Richard II, King

  Richter, Gerhard

  Richter, Hans

  Richter, Sviatoslav

  Rigby, Father Cormac

  Rilke, Rainer Maria

  Robbins, Harold

  Roberts, Alice

  Robertson, David

  Rockwell, Norman

  Rohr, Father Richard

  Romans, Epistle to the

  Romanticism

  Rome

  Ronald, Landon

  Roscoe, Martin

  Rosenthal, Moritz

  Rossetti, Christina

  Rosslyn Hill Chapel

  Rothko, Christopher

  Rothko, Mark

  Rouen

  Rowan, Lucy

  Royal Academy of Music, London

  Erard Scholarship

  Royal Albert Hall, London

  Royal Festival Hall, London

  Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  Rózsa, Miklós: Spellbound Concerto

  rubato

  Rubens, Peter Paul

  Rubinstein, Anton

  Rubinstein, Arthur

  Rückert, Friedrich: ‘Lachen und Weinen’

  ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’

  Ruskin, John

  Russian crescendo

  Russian Revolution 1917

  St Agnes’ Church, New York

  St Francis, Basilica of, Assisi

  St George’s Church, Brandon Hill

  St George’s Catholic Church, Worcester

  St James Place, London

  St James Street, London

  St Louis Symphony

  St Mary’s Church, Warrington

  St Rocco’s Hospice, Warrington

  Saint-Saëns, Camille

  Piano Concerto no. 3 in E flat, op. 29

  Piano Concerto no. 5 in F, op. 103

  St Wilfred’s Church, Grappenhall

  St Wulstan’s Church, Little Malvern

  Salford

  Salonen, Esa-Pekka

  Salzburg

  Grosse Festspielhaus

  Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel

  San Francisco

  Sanchez, Tania

  Santa Maria Maggiore, Assisi

  Satie, Erik

  Sauer, Emil von

  Savoy Hotel, London

  Scarlatti, Domenico

  Scharwenka, Xaver

  Piano Concerto no. 4 in F minor, op. 82

  Schiff, András

  Schmidt, Franz

  Die Deutsche Auferstehung

  Symphony no. 4 in C

  Schnabel, Artur

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19

  Schubert, Franz

  ‘An die Musik’ (d. 547)

  ‘Lachen und Weinen’ (d. 777)

  Piano Sonata in A minor (d. 784)

  Piano Sonata in B flat (d. 960)

  Piano Sonata in C (d. 613)

  Piano Sonata in D (d. 850)

  piano sonatas

  Winterreise

  Schumann, Clara

  Schumann, Robert

  Album for the Young, op. 68

  Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6

 

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