Dear Angela,
As I sit at my desk listening to your WTC 1 for the 45th time (according to my iTunes counter) and your English Suites for the umpteenth time I thought it finally high time that I told you thank you for all the ineffable joy your playing has brought me.
Thank you! I could go on and on, but I will not. You are a treasure, a bit of true civilisation and light and spiritual depth in this world.
Wishing you a Happy 2009, and enough time for rest and reflection and renewal.
Steven in NYC
Dear Angela,
What a year of rich music, place, people and accomplishments. We all are so enriched by the dynamic artistry and personal touch you bring to such a marvelous and expanding repertoire. Any plans to record a few Scarlatti sonatas?? (but just SOME of the 555 so as not to drive you to sheer exhaustion!). Merry Christmas Angela and Best Wishes in 2009.
Alan
Boulder, CO
Slow down, dear Lady. Your artistry is too rewarding to have you burn out. Have wonderful - and at times I hope - relaxing Holidays. We in the audience, and listeners thru recordings, have you to thank many times over.
Don
Hi Angela,
Since last July in Umbria when I gave you the Globe and Mail clipping about your defection from Steinway to Fazio, I have been meaning to write to you to tell you how much joy your Bach recordings of the Well-Tempered Clav. have given me (to say nothing about the intimidation of my left hand!) Then seeing your inclusion as a clue in Nov 14 NYT crossword reminded me that I should send congrats and thanks. Hope to see/hear you in Umbria this coming July. Cheers, Joe D.
Hi Ms Hewitt!
This is Aristo Sham (the 12-year-old boy from Hong Kong who played the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue). Thank you for your very inspiring masterclass. Hope to see you in the near future!
Happy Holidays Angela! Stay healthy in 2009. Enjoy some relaxation time you captivating virtuoso you =)
Dear Angela,
Thank you so much for the wonderful music you have brought to the audience throughout the years. I'm sorry that your hectic schedule renders you exhausted and wish that you could have more space for yourself. Please take care.
vivian
Many thanks for bringing Bach so close to so many people by your glorious world tour! I was present at your concert in Shanghai, the 1st time I heard the Well-Tempered Clavier live. Though I am only a music lover, I met the vice president of Shanghai Conservatoire and his wife, a piano teacher of the same school, during the interval, both much impressed by your performance. Though you felt “much better” down here compared with your “horrible” experience in Beijing, I was put to shame by part of the audience, esp. those who walked out soon after you set afoot onto the 2nd half, as if they were in a supermarket. Still, I am looking forward to your next visit to my city, for all its coal smelling air and its ill-behaved audience.
Dear Angela,
I went to your concert in Beijing, and I'm grateful that despite the unbearable way the audience had been behaving that day, you very kindly autographed my Bach sheet music afterwards. I wish I could represent the Beijing audience and gave you a proper apology for that night and somehow amend the bad impression you probably hold now of Beijing audience, and rightfully so, but all I could say that this concert really is so badly publicized that many music lovers in Beijing who would be dying to hear your playing was not even aware of the event. The sponsoring instrument dealer virtually kept all the tickets to the kids in its music class.
Nevertheless, I am all the more stunned by your soulful playing and your graceful personality shown under such circumstances. Your rendering of Bach is so refreshingly beautiful that even today, I can close my eyes and feel your playing. Thank you so much for the brilliant performance. I dare to wish you would come to China again soon.
Best wishes,
Ella
Thanks for your recitals in Hong-Kong. As expected, they provided us with highly refine Bach nusic (and memories of your Singapore recitals. But what different audience!) Congratulations for the control you exhibited with such noisy fellows indeed.
Looking forward to your new recording.