Dear Ms Hewitt,
Many thanks for the wonderful concert you played in Cologne on November 12th, 2007. It was the first time I heard a Fazioli, and indeed the first time I heard you play Bach (Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier). As I mentioned to you afterwards, I had already thoroughly enjoyed your Schumann programme in Leverkusen some months ago. The hall should have been sold out yesterday, but there certainly were enough coughers and sweet-eaters present to make up for it. Unfortunately, Cologne audiences are particularly notorious for such ill-mannered behaviour - Alfred Brendel even wrote a poem about it ("Die Huster von Köln"). Alas, no-one can guarantee that they will be any quieter during the warmer months of the year... I hope, nonetheless, that you will return in the near future. Thanks again for a moving evening.
Sincerely,
Brian Cooper