:00:46. > :00:49.Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Albert Hall. In
:00:49. > :00:56.a moment, the elegant and distinguished Canadian pianist,
:00:56. > :01:06.Angela Hewitt will play solo piano music. Later, a reinvention of one
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:01:08. > :01:13.of Johannes Brahms's chamber works. In between those two pieces, a rare
:01:13. > :01:18.chance to hear assured work for piano and orchestra by Schumann,
:01:18. > :01:23.dedicated to brands. Andrew Manze is going to conduct the concert
:01:23. > :01:27.tonight and it is the Scottish Symphony Orchestra on stage tonight.
:01:27. > :01:34.However, they will remain silent for the first few minutes of this
:01:34. > :01:44.concert as we hear two of Brahms's Intermezzo for solo piano. Please
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:01:44. > :11:16.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 572 seconds
:11:16. > :11:20.Angela Hewitt playing the pieces in E flat major. Amongst the last
:11:20. > :11:24.pieces he was to write. Earlier this evening, I caught up with
:11:24. > :11:27.answers Hewitt and asked her about the experience of playing solo
:11:27. > :11:34.piano in a vast space at the Royal Albert Hall.
:11:34. > :11:39.I think it is great, you can really draw people in. When I was
:11:39. > :11:44.rehearsing this afternoon, it had a good feeling. Am not going to be
:11:44. > :11:50.afraid of that intimacy in such a big place. Having heard so low
:11:50. > :11:54.Brahms, we're going to hear a piece next by Schumann. This piece,
:11:54. > :12:01.written over 150 years ago but only now getting its first performance
:12:01. > :12:03.at the Proms. It is extraordinary and I have just recorded there. I
:12:03. > :12:11.recorded the complete works of Schumann recently and I have come
:12:11. > :12:15.to love this piece. It is a big virtuoso piano part but it is
:12:15. > :12:21.wonderfully woven into the orchestral fabric. There are some
:12:21. > :12:28.nice oboe and flute solos. It is unusual to have such a gorgeous
:12:29. > :12:34.melody. That is unusual in his late pieces and it is really were
:12:34. > :12:44.playing just for that team. Shall we see it as a concerto, albeit a
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:12:45. > :12:51.small one? More just as a concert piece. It is very concise in its
:12:51. > :13:01.material and there is a part that is very grand, bringing it to the
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:13:02. > :13:11.conclusion. But there is a lot Angela Hewitt talking to me earlier
:13:11. > :13:21.on and here she is to play Shimna's introduction and Concert Allegro,
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:13:21. > :27:28.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 572 seconds
:27:28. > :27:34.Angela Hewitt playing Schumann's introduction and Concert Allegro,
:27:34. > :27:40.Opus 134. The Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze.
:27:40. > :27:50.Getting its Proms debut tonight. Angela Hewitt, Canadian-born but
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:27:59. > :28:07.I have come backstage and am joined straight from the platform by
:28:07. > :28:12.Andrew Manze. Wonderful to hear that, it is extraordinary that a is
:28:12. > :28:15.her first Proms outing. Or what an amazing second melody it has.
:28:15. > :28:25.move on to the peace you will perform in three or four minutes
:28:25. > :28:28.
:28:28. > :28:33.time. Brands Piano Quartet No. 1. Schoenberg was a huge fan of
:28:33. > :28:40.Brahms? Yes and you probably helped him out with some money when he was
:28:40. > :28:43.a struggling musician so he had a great fondness for brands.
:28:43. > :28:49.played the quartet as a musician and he had a very clear idea of
:28:49. > :28:55.what he wanted to do, he wrote that he liked the piece and he thought
:28:55. > :28:58.it was always so badly played. He wanted to rectify that? Yes and
:28:58. > :29:05.that is one thing about the original, the strings are really on
:29:05. > :29:10.the edge. Sean Burke doesn't need to push them because he is using a
:29:10. > :29:14.huge orchestra. He is showing us the beauties inside the peace.
:29:14. > :29:20.have to stop you there because you Orchestra is almost changed. You