Angela Hewitt Plays Brahms and Schumann BBC Proms

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Albert Hall. In

a moment, the elegant and distinguished Canadian pianist,

Angela Hewitt will play solo piano music. Later, a reinvention of one

of Johannes Brahms's chamber works. In between those two pieces, a rare

chance to hear assured work for piano and orchestra by Schumann,

dedicated to brands. Andrew Manze is going to conduct the concert

tonight and it is the Scottish Symphony Orchestra on stage tonight.

However, they will remain silent for the first few minutes of this

concert as we hear two of Brahms's Intermezzo for solo piano. Please

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Angela Hewitt playing the pieces in E flat major. Amongst the last

pieces he was to write. Earlier this evening, I caught up with

answers Hewitt and asked her about the experience of playing solo

piano in a vast space at the Royal Albert Hall.

I think it is great, you can really draw people in. When I was

rehearsing this afternoon, it had a good feeling. Am not going to be

afraid of that intimacy in such a big place. Having heard so low

Brahms, we're going to hear a piece next by Schumann. This piece,

written over 150 years ago but only now getting its first performance

at the Proms. It is extraordinary and I have just recorded there. I

recorded the complete works of Schumann recently and I have come

to love this piece. It is a big virtuoso piano part but it is

wonderfully woven into the orchestral fabric. There are some

nice oboe and flute solos. It is unusual to have such a gorgeous

melody. That is unusual in his late pieces and it is really were

playing just for that team. Shall we see it as a concerto, albeit a

small one? More just as a concert piece. It is very concise in its

material and there is a part that is very grand, bringing it to the

conclusion. But there is a lot Angela Hewitt talking to me earlier

on and here she is to play Shimna's introduction and Concert Allegro,

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Angela Hewitt playing Schumann's introduction and Concert Allegro,

Opus 134. The Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze.

Getting its Proms debut tonight. Angela Hewitt, Canadian-born but

I have come backstage and am joined straight from the platform by

Andrew Manze. Wonderful to hear that, it is extraordinary that a is

her first Proms outing. Or what an amazing second melody it has.

move on to the peace you will perform in three or four minutes

time. Brands Piano Quartet No. 1. Schoenberg was a huge fan of

Brahms? Yes and you probably helped him out with some money when he was

a struggling musician so he had a great fondness for brands.

played the quartet as a musician and he had a very clear idea of

what he wanted to do, he wrote that he liked the piece and he thought

it was always so badly played. He wanted to rectify that? Yes and

that is one thing about the original, the strings are really on

the edge. Sean Burke doesn't need to push them because he is using a

huge orchestra. He is showing us the beauties inside the peace.

have to stop you there because you Orchestra is almost changed. You