Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt

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 September 2016, Angela began her ​‘Bach Odyssey’, performing the complete keyboard works of Bach in a series of twelve recitals, finishing in June 2020. In 2018 she performs the complete Well-Tempered Clavier in London, Tokyo, Ottawa, New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Vancouver/​Victoria, and Stratford (Ontario). Other recitals will take her to Lisbon, Prague, Rotterdam, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Girona, Minneapolis, Ferrara, Bari, Perugia, Portland (Oregon), Cleveland, Bern and Newcastle.

Orchestral highlights include her recent BBC Proms appearance with Messiaen’s Turangalîla (BBC Symphony Orchestra/​Oramo), a UK tour with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (Beethoven’s ​“Emperor” Concerto), her debut in Vienna’s Musikverein conducting Bach Concertos with the same Orchestra, the Cartagena Festival in Colombia, and performances in Chicago (Music of the Baroque with Jane Glover) and with the Xi’an Symphony in China. She will also appear in residency at Harvard University.

Hewitt’s award-winning recordings have garnered praise from around the world, and her ten-year project to record Bach’s major keyboard works for Hyperion has been described as ​“one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). Hewitt’s seventh volume of Beethoven Sonatas was released in June 2018; other recent releases include a second album of Scarlatti Sonatas and a new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

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