The renowned composer and pianist tells Peter Stanford about his faith and his music ahead of the premiere of his sonata for The Tablet’s 175th anniversary recital Stephen Hough defines himself as a Catholic “with a middle-sized ‘C’”, though he says that he is nervous of such categorisation in the “big basket” that is the Church. Definitely not a capital “C”, he then muses, though there have been times during his 53 years when this multi-award-winning pianist and composer has been a daily Mass-goer, and even a supernumerary in Opus Dei. Nor a small “C” either, he adds, as he worries out loud that, as a gay man in a long-standing partnership, the Church might not really want him. “I’m almost certain I couldn&rsq