classical music: Angela Hewitt

classical music: Angela Hewitt

classical music:

Angela Hewitt

Bach: The Six Partitas / Angela Hewitt

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 1997

One woman and a piano...
I first heard Angela Hewitt playing Bach on the radio, and immediately sought out a recording. This is what I ended up with, and months later it is still revealing new riches. The music, of course, is vast and rich, and Hewitt breathes life into every note. This is ...

Bach: French Suites / Angela Hewitt

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 1995

Elegant Artistry
Recorded early in Angela Hewitt's Bach cycle, the popular French Suites (along with the "Little Preludes" and other two more dynamic virtuoso pieces) take a step back from the more serious and complex fugal compositions of Bach and settle into the restrained elegance ...

Bach Performance on the Piano [DVD Video]

Hyperion UK, 2008

Terrific insights, nothing condescending
Curiously enough, I was moved to purchase this video by one of the less-than-stellar reviews on this page; I already knew Angela Hewitt to be a fine artist, and though I strongly doubted that there would be any basis for claims like "It's all about Angela" and so ...

Bach Arrangements

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2001

Absolutely divine
Angela Hewitt is superb playing these transcriptions of a variety of Bach's works. The disc starts with five excellent choices of transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempf. The first is simply splendid, namely the Sinfonia in D major. Perhaps this is the most convincing ...

Couperin: Keyboard Music, Vol. 1

Francois Couperin, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2003

Who needs a harpsichord?
I think this music sounds MUCH better on the piano than on the harpsichord, and I am sure that I'm not alone. Let's face it, modern ears find the harpsichord difficult to listen to, especially solo in long stretches. It seems unfair to me that some of you are ...

Bach: The Toccatas

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2002

Bach Would be Smiling
Listen to the Fugue from BWV 915 (No 6 on this Album) and try not to smile. It is pleasant and bouncy and irresistable. I keep playing this part over and over. Angela Hewitt plays it freely and boldly like a child skipping in the park. She plays cleanly and ...

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2007

2007 Bach Tour Issue
Hyperion Records issued this complete 4-CD set for Hewitt's 2007/08 "Bach World Tour" (bachworldtour). The original performances here (WTC-I, WTC-II) were recorded in 1998/99 and still set a high mark for contemporary recordings of Bach's 48. Its largely what put ...

François Couperin: Keyboard Music, Vol. 2

Francois Couperin, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2004

Couperin's introspective late works
This second volume of Francois Couperin's clavier compositions contain his very last works which take on a different tone than found in Volume I. As Ms. Hewitt cites in her excellent liner notes, Couperin's music has always had a element of 'melancholy and mystery' in ...

Goldberg Variations

J.S. Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2000

Contemplative Goldbergs
Bach wrote very, very few variation compositions like the "Goldberg Variations," but the one's he wrote are most memorable and monumental. Early in his career, he wrote a magnificant "Aria with Variations in the Italian Manner" (BWV989). Its repeating aria at the end ...

Rameau: Keyboard Suites

Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2007

Rameau on Piano
The great French composer Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1760) was a contemporary of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti, but his music remains less-known than that of these masters. Rameau wrote a treatise on harmony and, after the age of 50, a long series of operas. He composed ...

Bach: Gamba Sonatas

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Orfeo, 2007

Bach for a Sunday morning
Its amazing to realize how much monumental music JS Bach wrote in his lifetime (1685-1750). Originally written for the gamba and harpischord, these three sonatas translate well to the modern cello and piano as their sunny, pleasant sonorites attest. The last sonata ...

Bach: Fantasia in C minor; Two-Part Inventions; Three-Part Inventions; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 1994

Four stars +.
Happy that you carry several CD offerings of Angela Hewitt - a worthy successor to Glen Gould in interpreting Bach.

Bach - The Keyboard Concertos Vol 1

Bach, Angela Hewitt, ...

Hyperion UK, 2005

The Lightness of Joy
Not being a musician, I cannot comment on any technical aspect of the performers' playing (except that the concertos sound just fine with a piano used as a solo instrument and a harpsicord used only as continuo). However, having now listened to both volumes of the ...

Bach: French Overture, Italian Concerto, etc

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2001

Outstanding CD of great music
This CD is as wonderful as all the other installments in Angel Hewitt's Bach series on Hyperion. Her playing is always clear, but always enjoyable and never hard to listen to. The CD is 79 minutes and nicely presented, with good notes. This CD is a must for anyone who ...

Bach: The English Suites

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angela Hewitt

Hyperion UK, 2003

Definitive English Suites
until I heard this new recording, my all time favorite recordings of the English Suites were the harpsichord version on Westminster by Fernando Valenti. Pretty old but this new recording on the modern grand is all the energy, articulation, clarity and brilliance of ...