Great to see that Stephen is out there and active with composing! Hopefully more young pianists will be inspired to compose by great pianists like him (that would include me lol). Good to talk about improvisation as well, I have a feeling that it could possibly come back as a trend soon. At least I'm very interested in it myself!
YES ! ! ! ! The world does not enough piano music. We desperately need more and more and more and more. Too bad what they are 'composing' now is all garbage.
He is a contriver. And it is an outrageous insult that he calls himself a 'composer.' Beethoven was a composer. Debussy was a composer. Stephen Hough is not a composer.
organman52 and that attitude is why there are no great contemporary composers...no one can ever live up to the reputation of past revolutionary giants. Classical composition is way too hung up on originality.
