I recently read Ian Ewen's "Saturday" in which he mentions your name more than once and am quite intrigued. I hope to come see you at one of the two Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concerts which you are conducting at the Chan Centre this weekend. The acoustics at Chan Centre, University of British Columbia, should be perfect for your piano programme - hopefully you will find the venue just as delightful as the famed Carnegie Hall! After all, there will be no distant trains hums.
Cheers, from the West Coast, Canada.
Dear Angela
I've had a wonderful time with your recording of the Chopin Nocturnes, which for me has transformed them into completely different music. So thank you. I just wonder if you had thought about doing a similar miracle with the Mazurkas. There's no really good recording of the whole set at the moment. Waiting hopefully!
Hi Angela,
I am delighted that you have provided us with such wonderful Bach! I have been listening heavily to your English Suites and I am greatly looking forward to soon buying the Goldberg variations and the "Italian Concerto" discs, as well as anxiously awaiting release of of the keyboard concertos.
I hope you come play in San Francisco again soon, as I missed your recital last time you were here. Thanks again for the wonderful recordings you've done!
Hello Angela,
To-day I listened to your interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC prior to your Carnegie Hall recital. Wishing you the best. With the concern about classical (notated) music and its future I think Charles Rosen was correct in saying that it will die if there are no musicians who love and play it. We are happy that you bring life to music. Hope to see and hear your next visit to Toronto.
Best Wishes
Brian
Hello Angela,
I was delighted to listen to your converstion with Shelagh Rogers this morning. Your laugh and sense of humour are wonderful and your energy and commitment inspiring.
Congratulations on your Juno and best wishes for tonight at Carnegie.
Kindest regards
Jean-Claude
Best of luck on the Carnegie Hall concert. I'm listening to you talking with Shelagh Rogers this morning, and am very much enjoying hearing your music. The website is superb, and it's a great way of learning something about you. I hope your FESTIVAL this summer is a success!
Dear Angela,
Just attended your concert in St. Paul yesterday afternoon and introduced myself to you after the concert...I wish to reiterate my statement that I feel so blessed that God allowed me to live long enough to hear you play live in concert! I have enjoyed your recordings so very much since being introduced to your work about a year ago...what can I say that you have not already heard in superlatives on your great artistic gift?...thank you for all the pleasure and inspiration you have brought to my life through your exquisite interpretations of fabulous repertoire...I hope to hear you again soon...
God bless you for sharing your gift with the world!
Very kindest regards,
Warren Petryk
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
Dear Ms Hewitt
I was introduced to the Goldberg Variations (and Bach's keyboard music)by your recording and have subsequently bought a number of your other Bach recordings on Hyperion (2 of my other favourites being Book 2 and the Partitas). I rave about your playing to anyone who will give me half an ear! Two questions: First, any plans to visit NZ (knowing you were so close recently with your Australian visit has tormented me (by the way, your concert with the ACO in Adelaide & interview with ABC was rebroadcast on NZ radio last week, and was as good as expected))? Second, any plans to record The Art of Fugue? Kind regards
Paul Windeatt
Dear Angela, I'm a young piano student, and I've been working on some preludes and fugues recently. My teacher and I thought it would be a good idea to get a recording of the Well-Tempered Klavier, so I started listening to several. I ended up buying yours, and I've enjoyed it immensely! You did such a lovely job with it. Thank you! --Robin
Hello, I wonder if you have published, or might publish, your transcriptions of the Bach chorales you play on the Hyperion CD, as Kempf and Hess published theirs. I find them enchanting, and in particular love Alle Menschen Muessen Sterben. I like it so much I'm beginning to wonder if I could try to transcribe it myself, though fear it may come out sounding not quite right - the story of my harmony and composition exercises over the years!
With best wishes, Elizabeth Balsom
