Sonata for keyboard, No. 90 in F sharp major
Valses poéticos (7), for piano, H. 147
Iberia Suite for piano, B. 47, Book 1 - Evocación
Iberia Suite for piano, B. 47, Book 2 - Triana
Impressions íntimes, for piano - Pájaro triste
Impressions íntimes, for piano - La barca
Impressions íntimes, for piano - Secreto
Impressions íntimes, for piano - Gitano
Aragon, for piano
Estampes, for piano, L. 100 - La soirée dans Grenade
Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117 - La sérénade interrompue
Préludes (12) for piano, Book II, L. 123 - La Puerta del Vino
Piece en forme de Habanera, for solo instrument & keyboard (arr.)
Work(s) - Tango
Spanisches Ständchen, for piano No.1, Op. 63
Evening in Seville, for piano No. 2, Op. 55
On Falla, for piano

Stephen Hough’s latest solo album takes us on a colourful tour of Spain and all things Spanish: a kaleidoscope of slants and angles on the soul and character of a once exotic and remote country. Antonio Soler (whose innumerable sonatas were considered sufficiently outlandish to earn him the sobriquet ‘the devil dressed as a monk’) sets the scene for a sequence of impressionist wonders by Granados, Albéniz and Mompou (a disc of whose pianistic micro-masterpieces CDA66963 won for Stephen Hough the 1998 Gramophone Instrumental Award), and Federico Longas’s insinuatingly virtuosic charmer Aragón. Hough then allows outsiders a view into the magical kingdom. Debussy and Ravel peer longingly over the Pyrenees, while Godowsky, Scharwenka, Niemann and finally Hough himself are all in turn unable to resist this richest of cultural experiences. Stephen Hough’s esoteric recital CDs rapidly acquire something of a cult status. Classic CD wrote of Stephen Hough’s New Piano Album CDA67043: ‘This is a terrific disc. A master pianist reminds us that the piano can delight, surprise and enchant’; while Classic FM Magazine welcomed Stephen Hough’s English Album CDA67267 saying: ‘Hough’s pianism is a constant source of wonder every chord and phrase perfectly judged’.

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE DISC OF THE MONTH ; CLASSIC FM BEST INSTRUMENTAL CD OF 2006 ; MAIL ON SUNDAY BEST INSTRUMENTAL CD OF 2006

'I cannot imagine many piano lovers failing to fall for this delectable and all-too-brief collection of impressions, portraits and postcards. If you are not drawn to the imaginative programme of the familiar, the brand new and the entirely unknown, then the elegant, eloquent playing of this master pianist will surely seduce you ... We are treated to some of the loveliest pianissimos and and delicate shadings you'll hear, familiar from Hough's earlier Piano Albums and similar in his complete empathy with this kind of repertoire...Hough's own On Falla has an authentic ring that should provide him with a blistering encore for years to come...The piano sound (Andrew Keener and Simon Eadon) is as you would expect from Hyperion's dream team' (Gramophone)

'Stephen Hough is among the most intellectual of contemporary pianists; but he's also among the most playful and tonally poetic keyboard artists... The unashamedly romantic reading of the Soler Sonata that opens the programme sets up the perspective: extremely flexible tempos, all-embracing colours, an exceptional range of articulation, and a subtle observation of polyphony that leads to characterized conversations among the music's competing voices... Hough's own On Falla brings the collection to a whimsically brilliant close... An ear-caressing release. (International Record Review)

'Hough again has a more intimate stance than many pianists, quietly brilliant in the cross-cutting between musical ideas. Everything is wonderfully fresh and nothing is laboured - it's a superb and surprising recital' (BBC Music Magazine)

'A ravishing display of light-fingered, insouciant virtuosity' (Classic FM Magazine)

'The sparkle and sensitivity of Stephen Hough's playing is lavished on a typically imaginative cross-section of music inspired by Spain...The perfect Christmas present' (The Times)

'Hough is one of Britian's best-kept cultural secrets; a pianist of such sophistication he will, I suspect, by the end of his career be able to be mentioned in the same breath as the few great British pianists of the past, such as Clifford Curzon and Solomon. Hough is a connoisseur, not merely a virtuoso. The 17 pieces on this beautifully recorded CD have all been carefully chosen to reflect the achievements of the Spanish nationalist school of Albeniz and Granados, the finest French exponents of the Spanish style, Ravel and Debussy, and a splendidly evocative encore, On Falla, by Hough himself. Irresistible' (Mail on Sunday)

'Stephen Hough joue la Sonate en fa diese mineur de Soler avec un délié, une vivacité qui la fait sonner comme si elle était jouée a la pointe seche... C'est admirable' (Diapason, France)

'Like a good book that makes you laugh out loud and want to read it again, a CD of piano solos that brings a smile of appreciation to your lips is a great find. Pianist Stephen Hough brings his sublime musicality to this marvellous collection of Spanish piano works' (Glasgow Herald)

'Stephen Hough possede une technique pianistique qui sied a merveille a ces pieces courtes qu'il fait scintiller avec charme et verve pour régaler ses auditeurs' (Pizzicato, France)

'L'étendue du répertoire de Stephen Hough, dont témoigne sa vaste discographie, ne fait pas obstacle chez lui a une connaissance approfondie de ces oeuvres et de leur couleur particuliere... Voila une travail intelligent, qui débouche sur un jeu coloré et sensible et nous apporte un plaisir sans mélange. Ce voyage musial, avec ses épisodes de réflexion et d'autres ou le divertissement prent la premiere place, ne lasse jamais grâce a sa diversité' (Le monde de la musique, France)

'Stephen Hough's delicious Spanish Album, a real connoisseur's choice' (Mail on Sunday)

'Everything on this rewarding disc suggests that Hough intuitively feels the idiom in his bones' (Pianist Magazine)

'This is truly one of the loveliest piano compilations around and deserves every recommendation' (Classical.net)

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Recording details: October 2005; St George's, Brandon Hill, United Kingdom; Produced by Andrew Keener; Engineered by Simon Eadon; Release date: November 2006;