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BBC Proms: 2011: Angela Hewitt Plays Brahms and Schumann

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02/09/2011

Angela Hewitt Plays Brahms and Schumann

2011

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2011, Angela Hewitt Plays Brahms and Schumann

Featuring Schumann's Introduction and Concert Allegro, and Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet.

Pianist Angela Hewitt begins with solo music by Brahms, before Schumann's Introduction and Concert Allegro and Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet.

An intimate evening at the Royal Albert Hall with star Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt. Beginning with solo music by Brahms, she is joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze for a performance of Schumann's Introduction and Concert Allegro, a sort of mini-piano concerto that the composer wrote as a wedding anniversary gift to his wife Clara. The concert ends with Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms' G minor Piano Quartet.

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