Dear Angela,
I came to hear your fabulous performance of Book 1 of Bach's Well Tempered Klavier at the Wigmore Hall last night and have still not returned to Earth. You fed us and transported us to another place as only the greatest music played by the finest musicians can. Nobody has ever played Bach on the piano as wonderfully as you.Thank you so much !!
I am thrilled that you are recording some Beethoven sonatas, I would love to hear you in all of them as I know you will make them sing and dance like nobody else. Interestingly , only one woman has ever made a complete studio recording of all Beethoven's sonatas, the great Hungarian, Annie Fischer .
Really looking forward to your French chamber recital at the South Bank in April, such a long tiime to wait to hear you again. Still , I have every one of your many records to keep me going !!
Love
Michael.
Angela
Your new Couperin CD arrived this morning, wonderful. I sit here listening, feeling really happy without any of the usual cares and stresses .. well the fact it isn't an unusual reaction to your music making doesn't make it any less special. You have a real gift. Not going to spend a long time trying to describe how it makes me feel. On the one hand I couldn't (there aren't the words and perhaps that's the point), and anyway, anyone reading this will understand what I mean ... Just hope you do, and that your life is full of the joy you give to others
Dear Ms. Hewitt
I was first introduced to your music when i turned on the tv to CBC to watch the General Governor's Performing Arts AWards. I enjoy your playing tremendously and it was amazing to have the opportunity to hear you play live when you came to Vancouver this past April for a program of Bach and Mozart. It was especially fantastic because i was able to get a seat in the upper backstage and i clearly just saw how your hands move around the keyboard. Everytime i hear you play, it inspires me so much. It makes me want to get better at the piano! I actually saw you once before on the plane to London from Ottawa in July 2004 but at that time it seemed awkward to approach you but it was still an experience! I look forward to your next concert in Vancouver!
Dear Angela,
You revealed me the beauty of the Goldberg Variations. Yes: before listening to your interpretation I didn´t like them!
I don´t understand anything about music but I think you showed me the function of the bass so that it wasn´t an annoying sound anymore!
Once understood its function I could also enjoy them played by Gustav Leonhardt.
I´m going to see you in Porto next 23.
Thanks,
Gonçalo
awesome in madison tonight! didn't stay for "meet the artist" because I was thinking, how can she do that after that performance? also felt bad that we didn't fill the house for you
dear Angela, recently bought the nocturnes and the Bach pianoconcertos. They are all marvellous. I do not have words for it.
By the way , I am moving definitely to my house nearby Lucca in Tuscany. There is a lot of music to enjoy. Where is your Italian house?
best wishes, ernest
Hi and Thank You Angela....
I saw you perform Chopin's Concerto No. 1 last night in Calgary....It was absolutely the most beautiful performance I have ever had the pleasure to attend. Thank you for bringing tears to my eyes, and rekindling my passion for beautiful music, and extraordinary performance....
Paul Thompson
Dear Angela,
It was a supernatural lift to hear you last night in Ottawa. Your energy is contagious! Your focus is amazing.
I have been enjoying reading your website this morning. You have done well to keep all the entries up to date...and still practice, as you say.
I read the comment about the taxi driver. Here's a comment that a taxi driver made to me in London Ontario when I told him you had agreed to be the Honorary Patron for Music for Young Children..."I have no idea what Music for Young Children is, but it must be a great program to have a world-renowned concert pianist want her name associated with it". So that taxi driver did know you. Hurray!
Your upcoming concert schedule is amazing. We wish you all good energy and positive times...healthy too.
Frances and Gunars Balodis
Music for Young Children
www.myc.com
frances@myc.com
i would like to know where i can find the piano arrangements for bwv 641, 614, 622, 643,22 and 127 I went to archambault music in montreal and they don´t have them . thank you and congratulations Pour l´excellence de votre carriere.
Hello Angela!
Thank you so much for creating the amazing Trasimeno Music Festival! I had a wonderful time - music that felt so powerfully personal, cameraderie among concert goers, truly gala dinners with new friends and the comfortable, exotic setting combined to make me feel part of the festival rather than an observer.
I will never forget the feeling of sitting in the cool evening breeze, enjoying wonderful music playing just a few metres away; and being able to glance up at any time to the starry night sky. What an incredible luxury! (Though I’m still not sure - how could it possibly be a summer evening if there are no mosquitos? Very confusing for an under-travelled Canadian!) The Trasimeno Festival was an amazing experience Angela so thanks and congratulations! Hopefully you have taken time to bask in the glory of such success!
It still seems impossible to have been in such a beautiful place; able to enjoy boat rides to the villages along the lakeshore, walk among the lines of olive trees or along forest ridges (even meeting a wild goat - it was huge!) and tour lovely hill towns with their casual scatterings of ancient neighborhoods, castles and churches. Possibilities for the daytime tours seemed endless - always more to explore - always more gelato! It all seems a unreal as I look back on it.
It is strange to write all this but I sometimes try to picture how it compares with your experience of that week. ‘Guess you didn’t have much time for contemplating the wonders of olive trees!
I hope you are well, happy and content so you can be thoroughly thrilled with these “other-worldly” projects you set up for yourself! Like the taxi driver said: “sounds relaxin’ !’’
Sincerely,
Cathy