Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze / Kinderszenen / Piano Sonata No. 2

'Here from Angela Hewitt comes a disc to make us marvel anew at Schumann's Romanticism; at his troubled and ecstatic poetry. Everything is played as in the heat of first inspiration, a reflection, perhaps, of a recreative richness mirroring Hewitt's encompanssing and versatile repertoire. Few pianists are so brilliantly alive to every passing fancy and whimsicality. And again, few performances could be less studio-bound, more fleet, hallucinatory and above all more deeply imaginative … This is revelatory Schumann-playing - something to cherish' (Gramophone)

'Hewitt plays 'Traümerei with tender loveliness … [Davidsbündlertänze] Hewitt projects the varying moods very well. She incoroprates the virtuosity of the dynamic pieces into her musical characterization of them, while she sustains the mood of the inward ones … with rapt beauty' (International Record Review)

'Schumann's piano music needs a pianist with supple fingers, fluid pacing, a sense of poetry and multitudinous colours. Angela Hewitt possesses all of these and gives immensely polished performances of three jewels from the mid-1830s' (The Times)

Angela Hewitt has earned a richly deserved reputation for her interpretations of Bach and the Baroque, and something of that characteristic clarity illuminates her Schumann performances. Her first disc of this repertoire was praised for its 'seemingly effortless but always adventurous interpretations … her poise and amplitude lending it an unearthly beauty' and this second volume, containing some of the composer's most bewitchingly beautiful music, should be no less lauded.