{"product_id":"stephen-hough-stephen-houghs-piano-postcards-lp","title":"Stephen Hough: Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Stephen Hough’s new solo piano album ‘Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards’ explores the world from the perspective of the itinerant pianist sending home musical messages from his voyages. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen picks beloved songs and tunes from around the world—from Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Spain and beyond—then wittily re-imagines them for the piano. These deft new arrangements form a homage to the countries he has come to love over a lifetime of travelling and performing, musical morsels sent home to us his listeners for aural delectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen writes: “‘Postcards’ suggest many things for me: travel, of course, greetings sent across the seas, ‘wish you were here’; but also writing to someone from home, a few words often meaning more than they say.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic from Asia includes ‘Spring breeze prelude’ by the Taiwanese composer Deng Yu-Hsien, widely loved across Taiwan and China. Stephen has also created a delicate piano version of ‘Aka tombo’, a children’s song so beloved in Japan that it even features in citywide ‘5-o’clock chimes’ across the country. Folk and popular traditions appear in ‘Cielito lindo’ and ‘Nature boy’, while the final group of pieces turns to nature, with works by MacDowell, Schumann and Sinding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside these musical travel diaries, Stephen intersperses sparkling new transcriptions of songs from popular films, including arrangements Stephen has created for Lang Lang’s ‘Disney Book’ album. This is the first chance Sir Stephen has had to include piano arrangements of songs from ‘Frozen’, ‘Coco’ and ‘Mary Poppins’. In fact, ‘Supercalifragilistic’ from his ‘Mary Poppins Suite’ already featured to huge success as an encore at the 2024 Last Night of the Proms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps above all, ‘Piano Postcards’ reflects the tradition of the pianist-composer: musicians who performed, arranged and curated their own repertoire with freedom and individuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSide A Mary Poppins SuiteRichard Sherman (1928-2024) \u0026amp; Robert Sherman (1925-2012), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChim chim cher-le\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeed the birds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrelude No 14 (No 2 in E flat minor from Preludes Book 3, Op 12) Abram Chasins (1903-1987)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiebesleid (No 2 of 3 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen) Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe flight of the bumblebee (Transcription from Skazka o Tsare Saltane 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan’) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), arr. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring breeze prelude Deng Yu-Hsien (1906-1944), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAka tombo Kōsaku Yamada (1886-1965), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDo you want to build a snowman? Robert Lopez (b1975) \u0026amp; Kristen Anderson-Lopez (b1972), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReflection Matthew Wilder (b1953), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRemember me Robert Lopez (b1975) \u0026amp; Kristen Anderson-Lopez (b1972), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSide B\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCielito lindo Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (1862-1957), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndaluza (Playera) (No 5 of Danzas españolas, Op 37)Enrique Granados (1867-1916)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinuet in G minor HWV434\/4 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), arr. Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLes sylvains Op 60Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBroadway (Midnight) (No 5 of Travel Diaries – New York)Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eÉtude in A minor (No 2 of Thirteen Pieces, Op 76)Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNature boy Eden Ahbez (1908-1995), arr. Stephen Hough (b1961)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo a wild rose (No 1 of Woodland sketches, Op 51)Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVogel als Prophet (No 7 of Waldszenen, Op 82) Robert Schumann (1810-1856)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRustle of Spring (No 3 of Six Pieces, Op 32) Christian Sinding (1856-1941)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Decca Records US Official Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43079910195409,"sku":"00034571995649","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/0374\/0369\/files\/StephenHoughLP.png?v=1777575557","url":"https:\/\/shop.deccarecordsus.com\/products\/stephen-hough-stephen-houghs-piano-postcards-lp","provider":"Decca Records US Official Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}