Simply astonishing contribution by the sheer outstanding classical music magazine "Gramophone" with its cover story featuring Mrs. Angela Hewitt and her touching pianism. A pretty interesting feature not to be missed!
Angela
I arrived home late on Friday evening (after a particularly unpleasant train journey) to find a Rameau CD and a copy of Gramophone waiting for me .. OK. Despite having so much to do over the weekend that I almost forgot to sleep, you still managed to work your magic and raise a smile. The interview was great. good to see that they didn't go over the top with the photos 😉 The Rameau is fantastic, the rather limited audio capabilities of my laptop don't really do it justice but somehow that doesn't matter. Trust I'll see you soon when the world tour arrives here, put me down for a t-shirt!
Mark
Dear Angela,
would it be possible to indicate what pieces will be found on your forthcoming Bach DVD? As a beginning amateur pianist I look forwrd to that DVD very much.
Many thanks for the wonderful Bach recordings, and a very good 2007,
Peter
Dearest Mrs. Hewitt,
it is simply astonishing to read the marvellous and very busy schedule (concerts as well as recording sessions) for 2007. I really wish you from the very bottom of my heart only good and joy. May God bless you with the very same intensity as your simply first-rate, yes quite immortal recordings do. They actually contribute to make me a better human being in the very best sense of the word!
Dear Ms Hewitt
Although I have not yet heard any of your performances live, I have listened very intently to many of your CD recordings and quite frankley I am amazed by your virtuosity at the paino keyboard.
I have listened to most of your Bach performances and latterly your Baroque offerings of Couperin. I love the way you bring out the subtleties of the Les Baricades..... on the piano, and in my opinion your arrangement is better than all the versions of this piece I've heard performed on the harpischord.
Thursday night's concert in Kingston was superb! I wrote to a friend earlier today... "The sound of the Yamaha concert grand and the acoustics in the church were a match for the playing which, even with the most spectacular runs and crashing chords, achieves a clarity and a quality of tone that can only be described as liquid crystal!" I was particularly taken by the syncopation, especially in the Rameau, and the way in which the music emerged out of the pure silence of the momentary rests to surprise and delight.
Thank you!
David Baril
Almonte ON
Finally the Gigue in Bach's English Suite No 6 is done right!! Thank you for playing Bach, Angela Hewitt, so superbly and expressive. Bach is my
greatest musical hero. I am a modern
jazz pianist and composer (jazz and classical) and sensitive to how Bach is treated. Your Bach playing is it!!
Dear Angela, my wife and I loved your terrific Wigmore Hall recital last night. Your Beethoven had such power and drama as well as songful nobility. Your wonderful piano made Beethoven's great music ring out as I have never heard it before.
I listen to many other fine pianists at Wigmore, but they mostly make do with the House Steinway which just sounds so dull and opaque after your Fazioli. I always think that Steinways area bit like musical Ford Mondeos, everybody's got one and they all sound the same !!
Thanks so much again for such fabulous music making, here's to your next one.
All best,
Mike Hanna
I listened to your new Beethoven disc today, and I think it is excellent! I like the concept of mixing familiar and less familiar pieces, and I think all three sonatas are beautifully played. The piano sound is great, too, quite different to the usual Steinway sound. You can really hear all the voices. Congratulations - I'm looking forward to your future recordings.
Dear Ms. Hewitt,
Although I reside here, I seldom attend concerts in Tokyo. Two years ago on a friend's recommendation, I attended your debut concerts here, a city where a multitude of jet-lagged artists show various levels of performance fatigue at high prices.
Last week I attended your concert for the 5th time in 3 years and, as always in your performances, left the auditorium in awe of your musical intelligence. Not only did you reveal unheard nuances but the way you let the Fazioli sing to us the Adagio of the Pathetique as an encore revealed how much attention you pay to the sound that the instrument is capable of giving.
It gave me the impression that you liked this paricular piano so much that you would like to wrap it and take it home with you. Your technique goes beyond playing faster or louder; you really play the instrument that is in front of you and use it to color the phrases. A most rare partnership between composer, performer and instrument. Finally, a pianist who seems to really love playing the piano.
Brava!
J.