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Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 and Piano Quartet

Ryan Bancroft and the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales perform two Brahms piano works: his 1st Concerto with Stephen Hough as soloist and Schoenberg's orchestration of his Quartet.

The 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales are joined by their Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft, and pianist, Sir Stephen Hough, for two of Brahms's most popular pieces. To begin, Sir Stephen is soloist in the great D minor Piano Concerto, an intense work which Hough has described as full of grandeur, excitement, and youthful flare. After the interval, we will be delighted with Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms's Piano Quartet. It's a work that Schoenberg loved in its original form, but found that the piano often overpowered the strings in performance, and so chose to rework it for orchestra, sticking, for the most part at least, to what Brahms himself might have written.

Presented by Ian Skelly in Swansea's Brangwyn Hall on the 3rd of October.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)
麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

Last on

Thu 10 Oct 2024 19:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 1 In D minor, op 15

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiest眉cke, op 12 (3rd mvt, 'Warum?')

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    6 Little Pieces, op 19

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion CDA67564.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    String Quartet No 1, 'Les Six recontres' (脌 l'茅glise; Au march茅)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion CDA68400.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Quartet In G minor, op 25

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Rutland Boughton

    Oboe Quartet No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Francis. Performer: Frances Mason. Performer: Marilyn Taylor. Performer: Christopher Wellington. Performer: Joy Hay. Ensemble: Rasumovsky Quartet.
    • Rutland Boughton String Quartets: Sarah Francis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Oct 2024 19:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3