Guestbook

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

Hi Angela, I usually start the day with one of your Bach recordings, the perfect way to spend a few precious moments before the start of the working day. I am looking forward enormously to the Bach Keyboard Concertos. I guess this just brings to an end the Bach marathon. I have just about all of them, and they are seldom far from my CD player. I have been wondering if there is any possibility of you recording any (or even all 555 of them!) of the Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas. Having enjoyed your Couperin recordings so much, and being particularly fond of Scarlatti's little gems, I couldn't help thinking that if anyone was going to record them on piano, it should be you. It would be a substantial undertaking, I know, but wow, what a prospect for fans. I would be interested to learn of your views on the Scarlatti sonatas. Personally I find them completely irresistable. I particularly enjoy the fact that you write your own booklet notes. How did this come about? They are so detailed and informative, and very well written too, I might add. Any chance of Hyperion letting you put them on your website as a series of collected articles? Finally, I hope to be able to see and hear you perform live at some time. I understand you prefer Fazioli pianos. Well the concert hall here in Leicester (De Montfort Hall) took delivery of a new Fazioli last year, and having heard it on a number of ocassions already since then, it sounds glorious. Any chance of a concert here? To hear you perform the Goldbergs and I could die a very happy man! My very best wishes to you for the future, and heartfelt thanks for the music you make, Ashley

Happy Birthday Angela, We could not let you off easily on your birthday. Not to worry. You just get better every year. We have finally come down from the suspended excitement and thrill of the First Annual Trasimeno Music Festival. It was a week of travel, dining, socializing and fantastic music in a historic and romantic setting. We thank you for the perfect conditions and setting for such a festival. The fine people we men from across the world and the marvelous music from such gifted musicians. Even the ambiance of the Magione Castle when the persistent crickets did not seem to bother the string quartet and the bats flying through the courtyard just added to the mystery. Thank you so much, Angela. We shall return as often as possible. Best Wishes, Ralph and Eileen

Dear Angela, It was your gorgeous playing of Bach that drew me into his music and showed me that it really isn't the old fashioned, stodgy music that some make it to be. I adore your recordings of Ravel especially. For a while I have been quietly trying to understand just why I have been so attracted to your music and your style of playing ... and after reading your personal memoirs and your vision for the Umbria festival, it became clearer that the reason must have something to do with your exceedingly personal side and the beautiful things inside you that are reflected in your music. Your music is much more than notes and sounds but is so enlived with things of the heart. Thank you for sharing your joy and your gift. I was thrilled to read about such a festival as yours in such a setting as this is the perfect way to share music. I hope one year to attend. Kind Regards, Alan Lekan Boulder, Colorado

Hello Angela! I absolutely love your music, and I am probably one of your youngest fans! (I am just turned 13) I listen to your Well-Tempered Clavier recording often. I look forward to seeing you in the UW World Series in Seattle in November!