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Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Clara Schumann's virtuosic Piano Concerto, premiered by the composer when she was just sixteen years old.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Clara Schumann's virtuosic Piano Concerto, premiered by the composer when she was just sixteen years old, in a concert conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. As part of the map, Sara includes works by other child prodigies, individuals who were both composers and performers, and traces musical lines to pieces which share similarities with Clara Schumann's only full orchestral work.

Producer: Ben Collingwood

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Mar 202613:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O viridissima virga

    Choir: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • Hyperion.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat: IV Allegro molto vivace

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Erntelied

    Singer: Iris Vermillion. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Suite (1952): III. Allegro possibile

    Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble. Director: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Kurt Weill

    Surabaya Johnny

    Singer: Lotte Lenya.
    • CBS.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Gayaneh-Suite: Sabre dance

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331: III. Rondo Alla Turca

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Schneemann: Serenade

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Shelley.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No. 10 in B minor

    Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120: II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.

  • Johannes Brahms

    6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • London Records.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Conductor: Holly Mathieson. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Mar 202613:30
    BBC Radio 3