Angela Hewitt

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“I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any instrument is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, persuasiveness of judgement or instrumental command than Hewitt’s is here”
(BBC Music Magazine)

Artistic Director: Trasimeno Music Festival

In autumn 2016 Angela Hewitt embarked on a major project entitled ‘The Bach Odyssey’, which comprises all of Bach’s keyboard works in twelve recitals over four years. This season Hewitt continues to present these performances in major cities and venues around the world including London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92^nd Street Y, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, as well as in Tokyo and Florence. Other recitals this season include Kawasaki, Munich, Warsaw, Serate Musicali Milan, Early Music Vancouver and Yale University’s Horowitz Piano Series.

In October 2017 Hewitt and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa, will offer the world premiere performance of Nameless Seas for piano and orchestra, written for her by Matthew Whittall. Hewitt directs the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from the keyboard in concertos by Bach and Mozart in November 2017, while other highlights of Hewitt’s 2017/18 season include Bochumer Symphoniker, Concerto Budapest, and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester at Munich’s Herkulessaal.

Hewitt’s second album of Scarlatti Sonatas is scheduled for release in September 2017, while her most recent releases include a new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, a sixth volume of Beethoven’s sonatas, and Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hannu Lintu.

Angela Hewitt - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 K453 (excerpt) © Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Angela Hewitt - Schumann: Kinderszenen (extract) © Hyperion

Angela Hewitt - Bach: Goldberg Variations (extract) © Hyperion

“The pianist had the audience on the edge of their seats in her entrancing performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 17 in D minor ‘The Tempest’, whipping up a highly-charged musical storm – a stunning tour de force.”

(Susan Nickalls, The Scotsman, July 2016)

“What enviable poise and expressive beauty to launch the central Andante, what muffled and sustained opening octaves, what concentrated focus. This [Liszt’s Sonata in B minor] is possibly the very finest of Angela Hewitt’s many recordings.”

(Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, March 2015)

“I won’t mince words. This Art of Fugue is marvellous. The variety and beauty of tone alone make compelling listening, bringing contrasts, clarity and warmth to Bach’s intellectual marvels.”

(Geoff Brown, The Times, October 2014)

“Angela Hewitt’s eloquent exposition of The Art of Fugue, the result of a lifetime’s immersion in Bach’s music, could hardly be bettered.”

(Richard Fairman, Financial Times, May 2013)

“As always with Hewitt’s playing, there was character and thought, as well as clean execution and excellent balance in every bar [of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4].”

(Martin Kettle, The Guardian, January 2013)