EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces Andrey Gugnin (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2024 ] Andrey Gugnin presents a wonderful all-Grieg recital, the elegant neo-classicism of 'From Holberg's time' (a rare and welcome opportunity to hear the original version for solo piano) contrasting with the brooding magnificence of the 'Ballade'. |
SCHUMANN
Album for the Young (Album fur die Jugend, Op 68) Angela Brownridge (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] The Album falls into two parts, with the first eighteen pieces designed for young children and the later numbers for 'more grown-up' players. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: The Six Partitas Angela Hewitt [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] "..what impresses most is Hewitt's sheer joy and sense of wonder in Bach's creative genius." BBC Music Five Stars Recording of the Month Feb 2020 |
Angela Hewitt
Bach:6 Partitas Bwv825-830 [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
Angela Hewitt
Bach:french Suites [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
EMMANUEL CHABRIER
Chabrier: Pieces Pittoresques (piano music) Angela Hewitt [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Jan/2006 ] "Vivacious playng restores these charming works to circulation" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2006) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus (Incls Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor Op 66) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "Lovely and engaging playing ... a swirling energy that may give admirers of these works a fresh new viewpoint" - MusicWeb Jan 2005 |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Keyboard Music Vol 3 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] With this third volume Angela Hewitt concludes her personal survey of Couperin's keyboard music and proves that, in the hands of someone as steeped in Baroque keyboard style as herself, music which was previously thought the exclusive domain of the... |
SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / STRAUSS / GRIEG / etc
Love Songs Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Angela Hewitt's new album is clearly destined to become a favourite. Some of the best-known musical declarations of love across the centuries, heard in transcriptions by some of the great pianists (including Angela herself); this is simply exquisite... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K279-284 & 309 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] "Hewitt makes them sound effortless. Her articulation is clean, the pedalling lightly judicious, her fingers nimble and strong, the ornamentation always tasteful, while the clarity of her approach brings out the individual character of each sonata" |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / JOSEF HAYDN
Angela Hewitt plays Handel & Haydn Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Altogether a splendid contribution to these composers' anniversary year' (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Art of Fugue Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2014 ] "I won't mince words. This Art of Fugue is marvellous. The variety and beauty of tone alone make compelling listening, bringing contrasts, clarity and warmth to Bach's intellectual marvels...Yet her fingers never make the results dry triumphs of engi |
RAVEL
Complete Solo Piano Music Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2002 ] "French music is clearly close to her heart as this magnificent survey of Ravel's music for solo piano reveals. Her wonderfully judged performances merely serve to heighten admiration for a composer of quite remarkable facility and imagination. A... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Keyboard Music Vol.2 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'For someone of Angela Hewitt's pulling power to invite her fans so enticingly down so unfashionable a path - a poncy ancien régime twiddler? And on the piano! - is brave; and it's right' (BBC Music Magazine) |
J.S. BACH
Das wohltemperirte Clavier-Book 1 (Well Tempered Clavier) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2000 ] ROSETTE - Penguin Stereo Guide BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE PICK OF THE MONTH AND BEST OF THE YEAR |
J.S. BACH
Das wohltemperirte Clavier-Book 2 (Well Tempered Clavier) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2000 ] ROSETTE (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
J.S. BACH
Das wohltemperirte Clavier [The Well-Tempered Clavier] (original recording) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2007 ] 'Hewitt has set a new benchmark. Her touch is admirably clear and light...and she is uniquely attuned to Bach's supple, sprightly rhyhms. A '48' of exceptional grace and beauty. I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any instrument is of greater... |
J.S. BACH
Das wohltemperirte Clavier [The Well-Tempered Clavier] (complete 2008 recording) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2009 ] 'Her best Bach yet..Not everyone can improve on the best, but it looks as it Angela Hewitt might have done just that..This is a defining moment in the performance history of the '48'..Hewitt's second thoughts, enhanced by technically outstanding... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze / Kinderszenen / Piano Sonata No. 2 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] 'Here from Angela Hewitt comes a disc to make us marvel anew at Schumann's Romanticism..This is revelatory Schumann-playing - something to cherish' (Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Fantasia, Aria and other works Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Aug/2004 ] "Her astonishing dispatch of the rapid repeated notes in the finale of the D major Sonata, her bouncy, characterful articulation in the BWV 832 Suite in A, and the feathery fingerwork in the BWV 944 Fugue take great Bach playing to joyous heights." |