Piano Concerto ‘The world of yesterday’:
Prelude – Cadenza
Waltz variations
Tarantella appassionata

Sonatina nostalgica:
The road from Danebank
The bench by the Dam
A gathering at the Cross

Partita:
Overture
Capriccio
Canción y Danza I
Canción y Danza II
Toccata

Polymath Sir Stephen Hough has a growing reputation as a composer of chamber, choral and above all solo piano music with four sonatas and a constellation of dazzling arrangements to his name. This album presents the premiere recording of his first piano concerto, recorded by the pianist with The Hallé under Sir Mark Elder. Its subtitle ‘The world of yesterday’ deliberately places the work in a broader context of the pianist-virtuosi of yesteryear who composed and performed their own piano concertos as they toured the world.