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  - heading "Sir Stephen Hough – at the JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College" [level=2]
  - text: Sat 29 May @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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    - strong: We are most grateful to Professor Richard Jenkyns for his generous sponsorship of this concert.
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    - strong: Claude Debussy
    - text: Ballade
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    - strong: Maurice Ravel
    - text: Valses nobles et sentimentales
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    - strong: Ferenc Liszt
    - text: Ballade no.2 in B minor, S.171
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    - text: Mephisto Waltz no.1, S.514
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    - text: 4 Ballades
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  - paragraph: Stephen Hough’s programme focuses on waltzes and ballades as seen by composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Ravel’s suite of 8 pieces is a modernistic reimagining, a kind of fragmented memory of a dance. Liszt’s 4 Mephisto Waltzes are completely different. Strongly narrative, they are based on the Faust legend and no.1 is the wedding at the village inn, a scene of wild exuberance, dancing and sensuality.
  - paragraph: Back in medieval times, French minstrels travelled the land singing their chanson-balladée, tales of knightly heroism, love and betrayal. The tradition went through transformations – in the Renaissance the ballade became a form of poetry – but it was Chopin’s idea to take the idea instrumental. His 4 Ballades retain drama and story-telling, but wordlessly, and they are among his greatest works. Stephen Hough has performed them around the world and recorded them to great acclaim. It will be a joy to hear him play them live for us.
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