92NY presents Stephen Hough

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Stephen Hough, piano, plays Debussy, Liszt, and more, on March 30, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Kaufmann Concert Hall. Tickets start at $25 and are available at 92ny.org/event/stephen-hough-piano.

Pianist Sir Stephen Hough joins 92NY with a program featuring Mompou’s “magic songs” of 1919, Scriabin, and Debussy for the program’s first half. The New York premiere of Hough’s own Sonatina Nostalgica leads to the program’s final works: Liszt’s Three Petrarch Sonnets and the “Dante” Sonata.

Program:

Mompou, Cants Magics

Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Debussy, Estampes, L. 100

Stephen Hough, Sonatina Nostalgica (NY premiere)

Liszt, 3 Petrarch Sonnets (from Années de Pèlerinage)

Liszt, Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (from Années de Pèlerinage)

“Elevation and luminosity, the art of sonority, overwhelming virtuosity …

the fingers of Stephen Hough are pure gold” – Le Monde