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Angela Hewitt joins Hannah French

International star and Bach specialist Angela Hewitt shares stories and music as she celebrates career milestones

Hannah French plays classical music to start your weekend.

Angela Hewitt joins Hannah to perform at the piano and to reflect on her career as she released her 50th album on the Hyperion label, plus other milestone moments this year.

Plus the continuation of 麻豆社 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥 a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Irish composer Gerald Barry鈥檚 piece Mars Canon takes its inspiration from the Nasa Insight lander鈥檚 recording of sound on Mars and is recorded by the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgr茅 lui: Danse slave (The King in Spite of Himself)

    Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 2xHD.
  • Richard Galliano

    La valse 脿 Margaux

    • L'accord茅oniste. Pr茅ludes, valses & envols.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.
  • Diego Jos茅 de Salazar

    隆Salga el torillo hosquillo!

    Lyricist: Anonymous.
    • Moon, Sun & All Things: Baroque Music from Latin America 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Allegro molto

    Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 1.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 104.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op 47

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies: Malsbury, LMP, Shelley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Short Service - Magnificat

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • Naxos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Zauberharfe D.644 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No. 5 - Movement IV.

    Ensemble: Quatuor Molinari.
    • Atma Classique.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.4 in A major BWV.1055 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • HYPERION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in C major, K545 - Andante

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV971 - Allegro

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op.103 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Radam茅s Gnattali

    Suite Retratos: IV. Chinquinha Gonzaga (Corta Jaca)

    • Samba!.
    • BGS Records.
    • 5.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 803.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    O salutaris hostia

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Louis Vierne

    狈补茂补诲别蝉

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise Op.83

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • William Herschel

    Trio Sonata No.2 in C major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Dionysus Ensemble.
  • Gerald Barry

    Mars Canon

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Gold and Silver, Op 79

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Dittrich.
    • The Great Waltzes: The Essential Collection.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Clara Schumann

    Liebeszauber, Op 13 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Marco Uccellini

    Sonate, arie et correnti, Op.3 (Aria quinta sopra la Bergamasca)

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
    • Deutsche HM.

Broadcast

  • Sat 31 May 2025 09:00