Just to say very many thanks indeed for your recital at Wyastone the other day. We had heard a number of your CDs, especially the Goldberg Variations, and revelled in the Sixth Partita, while it was good to hear Kinderscenen as a whole and beautifully knitted together.
But for me the revelation was the Brahms sonata. In the fourth quarter-century of one's life (just), it's always interesting to be presented with a work by one of the masters one has never heard before. But one lives with the fear that it may turn out there are good reasons why one has never heard it before - it's juvenilia, or a pot-boiler.
In this case, most certainly neither, and you thoroughly convinced us it was a major work, to be often revisited.
Thanks once more: come again!
Emrys Evans
Dearest Angela,
Eileen and I are thrilled and proud for you that you are receiving the honour of Officer of the Order to the British Empire.
This certainly an honour that is well deserved.
We hope to hear more of this when we see you at the Trasimeno Music Festival.
Love and congratulations,
Ralph and Eileen
Dear Ms Hewitt:
I was delighted to be able to see you last Satursday evening at the Wyastone concert in Monmouth. As a fellow Ottawan, I followed your career over the past twenty years while working in Ottawa. But this is the first time I have been close enough to take in one of your performances in person. It was a very powerful experience and I hope to have an opportunity to see you again in the future.
Best wishes,
Bob Brouillard
Dear Ms. Hewitt,
I heard a performance of selections from Bach's Art of the Fugue on the piano last night, which reminded me how wonderful some of them -- especially the unfinished fourteenth -- can sound on the modern piano. I would love to hear what Angela Hewitt would do with some of them. Why not a recording? At any rate, I hope you perform in the North East of the US in the near future.
Dear Ms. Hewitt,
Your recital at Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on May 14, 2006, was one of the most exciting classical music events I have ever experienced (and I am 68 and have attended many concerts in the US and in Europe). The Rameau was delightful (more Rameau!). Your interpretation of the Bach Partita No. 4 was masterful and breathtaking. And your Brahms Sonata No. 3 was a virtuosic powerhouse (as well as idyll). However, the most moving moment of the evening was your single encore: the Andante from Bach's Sonata in D minor, BWV 964 (transcribed from the solo violin sonata). Your beautifully slow, almost hesitant, performance of this plaintive movement, with your very effective use of rubato, reminded me of Rosalyn Tureck's equally poignant 1948 New York recital performance of this Andante: What a tribute to Bach by both of you!
Frank Westbrook
Ms. Hewitt
Thank you so much for performing in San Franciso this weekend. I attended both the Mozart and Franck performances. I've been a fan of your Bach recordings for quite a while and now I am a completely devoted fan.
I was especially happy that see you play chamber music with some of the finest musicians in our orchestra. The Franck was so fluid and the rapport among the 5 of you was so intense that it's hard to fathom that you have never played with them before. I also imagine that you had limited rehearsal time. Brava!
I'm also happy to read that you found some time to hike around our hills. If there is one thing the Bay Area has to offer, it is excellent geography.
At the CD signing you mentioned that you will be bringing the Well-Tempered Clavier on tour in a few years. I certainly hope that the Bay Area is on your itinerary. If not I guess I'll have to travel. I have to see it.
With respect and admiration,
George Wright
Will you ever get back to New York City? I'm in the mood for Le Tombeau de Couperin and anything else you would like to play.
Dearest Angela,
What a inspiring article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It offers a delightful image of you as a child and insight into what you were like as you developed such talent.
Many of your devoted audience who wondered how you have related to Glen Gould now see that you have always been your own person. You have not personally been affected by anyones shadow, with the possible exeption of JSB.
Best Wishes for your performances in San Francisco and Eileen and I look forward to hearing you at your Trasimeno Music Festival.
Ralph
Read the WSJ article about you this evening and got curious enough to check out your site. Great stuff, especially your scrapbook section. Besides being a first class musician and performer, you find the time to enjoy the history, the entertainment and the people in the countries you tour. Pretty impressive.
Be good if you could include some audio samples of your music making on the site. Meanwhile, you've got my interest high enough that I'll search out one of your Bach albums. If you pass the test -I'm close enough to Baltimore to get a live listen(:.
Hopefully you'll be coming to Philly soon. Meanwhile, keep your joy of life.
Dear Angela
I've got the ticket for your concert in San Francisco this Sunday! How exciting!! I'll be flying in from Los Angeles. I'll bring my Passacaglia music just in case I can get your autograph on it. I'm hoping....
Love, Aki