I have attended your concert yesterday in Seoul, and it was truly marvelous. I hope you have also enjoyed playing in the Seoul Art Center. Wish you could come back soon. Bye!
Dear Ms Angela, I can feel your passion, your grace and your fire running through the notes of Ravel's piano works. I didn't knew a lot of those pieces, but now I love them all!
Thanks
Cristiano (Italy)
hi angela! congrat on all your prices :o) i am a growing fan, liking that you move on to for instance chopin.. but, best of all - you have had the guts to record on faziolis! i love that, we need the best sound! i am the proud owner of a 212, (i`ll pay the rest of my life :o)) - planning to see you in gothenburg ;o)
anders, oslo, norway
The Beethoven arrived this morning, it's fresh, intelligent, surprising and beautiful, it doesn't sound hackneyed and it's far from superfluous!
Congratulations on the OBE, the Gramophone Award and any other recently awarded accolades 😉 .. all richly deserved!
If it's true that each recording project adds immeasurably to your life, then that would seem to be only fair. It was interesting to read that you derive such pleasure from the process, perhaps this accounts for the joyous energy found on your CDs.
Your remarks about connecting with your audience are well made, but only take us so far. As with the music, ultimately the specifics of what you do are much less important than who you are.
Dear Angela, I just received a flyer from Intermusica announcing your 2006 Gramophone Award. Beating the likes of Simon Rattle and Valery Gergiev!! Congratulations!
With all good wishes, Constance. (Chambermusic Series Tilburg University, Holland)
I saw a clip of you on Classic Arts Showcase, playing the slow movement, of Chopin's Op. 35 Sonata.
I loved it. Your performance was elegant.
I will buy your cd's. I am a 'Bach melómano' from childhood. Permit me to say GG's Goldberg Variations were and continue to be a threshold experience for me, but I venture to say that yours will "beg to differ", I'm sure. I know it will.
Cheers.
angela, you are as beautiful as the music you play...
Many congratulations on receiving the Gramophone Artist of the Year Award 2006. Richly deserved. Sometimes one's vote does count for something worthwhile!
Enjoy!
Congratulations Angela on winning Gramophone Artist of the Year!
My all-time favourite Bach piano pieces are from your 1987 Bach Piano Concerti. I went all the way to downtown Toronto and walked in the pouring rain to the CBC building just to buy that disc (later I found out it was available in the local HMV - d'oh!). Finally I could return the copy I had "borrowed" from the library and was now 3 years over due.
"Officer of the Order to the British Empire" - that sounds even better than "Gramophone Artist of the Year". I always thought your picture on the cover of the Bach Piano Concerti CD reminded me of Queen Elisabeth in the early 1950's.
From a grateful and proud fellow Canadian,
Michael
What a well deserved honour! Congratulations! Angela - you are the epitome of what a professional artist should be. If my study at the piano teaches me anything, it is how talented and precious artists such as yourself are - and to do what you do with such grace, poise, accessibility and style are truly the hallmarks of greatness.
Thank you.