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JS Bach: The Six Partitas
2018 recording
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
To hear this wonderful music played by Hewitt with such a remarkable sense of style and poise on a concert grand is a special treat for listeners of all persuasions…Hewitt sounds completely...
JS Bach: The Six Partitas
2018 recording
Angela Hewitt (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
To hear this wonderful music played by Hewitt with such a remarkable sense of style and poise on a concert grand is a special treat for listeners of all persuasions…Hewitt sounds completely...
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‘Brilliant, well-sounding, expressive and always new’ was the verdict of Bach’s first biographer on the six Partitas, a description which applies equally to Angela Hewitt’s wonderful new recording of what Bach designated his ‘Opus 1’. Angela describes a lifetime of living with Bach’s music as ‘a great gift and a lifelong adventure’; an adventure in which we are fortunate to have such an authoritative companion and guide.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2020Recording of the Month
February 2020
To hear this wonderful music played by Hewitt with such a remarkable sense of style and poise on a concert grand is a special treat for listeners of all persuasions…Hewitt sounds completely immersed in the music’s expressive soundworld, as well as its peerless structural logic…Yet, what impresses most is Hewitt’s sheer joy and sense of wonder in Bach’s creative genius.
May/June 2020
Her approach to this music is simply ideal: As she goes forward translating harpsichord into piano, we are always aware of the choices
she is making, especially those of dynamics and rubato; but at the same time she is able to allow herself to be swept away by the beauty and power intrinsic in the music, no matter which instrument is used to transmit it
December 2019
While Hewitt’s stylish integrity, superb finger independence and deep feeling for the music’s roots in dance remains a constant, there’s now a greater level of interplay between hands, with added variety of articulation and rhythmic flexibility...One also perceives more expressive gestures by way of dynamic hairpins, caesuras, breath pauses and myriad accentuations that will strike listeners as either spontaneous or self-aware, depending on personal taste.
December 2019
The Sarabande of No 1 seeks the eternal while No 2 has a different profundity, housed in C minor. The Sixth is the summit of both Bach’s Partitas and Hewitt’s readings, Bach soliloquising (perhaps, as Hewitt suggests, in conversation with his god). Hewitt’s Fazioli is perfectly calibrated. All the core traits of Hewitt’s Bach are here: clarity, focus, devotion.
January 2020
the cycle is beautifully recorded in a warmly welcoming ambience with an agreeable sense of space and perspective. This is a recording which showcases the exquisite artistry of this pianist. Hewitt's intelligent approach, impeccable musicianship and authoritative technique serve the music well.“
1st December 2019
Hewitt’s playing is characteristically limpid, technically faultless, deeply intelligent and infectiously joyous. Her decades of experience playing this repertoire gives it a special patina; it glows like old gold.
