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more like an than a rejection of his youthful preoccupations...Schiff's Bach sings and dances, and has a clarity derived from a mesmerising touch and an aversion to the sustain pedal. The crucial... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
10th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: 4764827
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Awards:
Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2012
4 CDs
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Hewitt…take full advantage of the piano's potential, including its middle (sostenuto) pedal; for that mighty tonic pedal below the final harmonies of Fugue in A minor. Her quiet sustained tone... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Wary as I am of superlatives, I can claim without hesitation that Ewa Pobłocka’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 encompasses some of the greatest and most fulfilling Bach pianism on record...Her... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019More…
Release Date:
1st Mar 2019
Catalogue No: NIFCCD062
Label: Frederick Chopin Institute
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
$25.75
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Admirers of Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt's lightly articulated and elegantly phrased Bach playing won't be disappointed by this recording.
These qualities characterise the playing of each and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…
To be sure, this approach, and the other-worldly sound of the Lautenwerk itself, won’t be to everyone’s taste. But one thing’s for certain: you’ll never listen to any of Bach’s music in the same... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023More…
Time and again you are left to admire the way he never burdens Bach's transparency and profundity with a portentous or heavy air of significance. Touchingly and admirably, he always allows Bach... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2006More…
All told, this is a WTC that has been inhabited long and well, relates its many varied tales with both relish and aplomb, and invites repeated listening. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2023More…
Release Date:
13th Jan 2023
Catalogue No: HMM90268081
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Awards:
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music