PROGRAMME

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (Auswahl)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
Präludium und Fuge e-Moll op. 35/1
DMITRI SCHOSTAKOWITSCH
Präludium und Fuge f-Moll op. 87/18
SAMUEL BARBER
Fuge aus Sonate es-Moll op. 26
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Partita e-Moll Nr. 6 BWV 830

Angela Hewitt knows every line of music that Bach wrote for the ‘Clavier’ and has played everything from BWV 772 to 1006 in concert, preludes and fugues, sonatas, toccatas, partitas and suites. People all over the world want to hear her – preferably exclusively with Bach. She was the first to record the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel – to the highest praise – and has just recorded her cycle of the complete Mozart sonatas on CD. And she remains curious – her programme for the Frankfurt Bach Concerts traces the history of the prelude and fugue through the centuries and does not shy away from the almost unplayable monster fugue by Samuel Barber. The Viennese Classical period had nothing to do with the theme of ‘prelude and fugue’, so you have to wait until Mendelssohn, who wrote a rapturous prelude and a mighty fugue, or with a great leap in time to Shostakovich, who in 1951, in the style of Bach’s ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’, himself wrote 24 preludes and fugues on paper and from there the romantic, iridescent No. 18 in F minor. Welcome to a fascinating journey through time with Angela Hewitt! (Frankfurter Bachkonzerte e. V.)