Angela Hewitt is a phenomenal artist who has established herself at the highest level over the last few years not least through her superb, award-winning recordings for Hyperion. Completed in 2005, her eleven-year project to record all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as "one of the record glories of our age" (The Sunday Times) and has won her a huge following.T0829632324This beautifully programmed recital demonstrates Angela Hewitt's affinity with the Baroque. The first half comprises Bach's virtuosic yet lyrical Partita No.4 and Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata - perhaps the best-known work in the piano repertoire. The second half features a selection of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and Ravel's tribute to Scarlatti's near-contemporary, Fran?ois Couperin. | |
| 26 Feb 19 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L02074244217 |
Bach: The Goldberg Variations - T01879392533 | |
| 8 Apr 18 | St David's Hall, Cardiff :: V825 listing details L0366450990 |
T1941469446One of the world's leading pianists, Angela Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout the world. She began learning the piano at the age of three, performed in public at the age of four and went on to win the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition in 1985. Her current schedule includes performances in Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Vancouver, New York, London, Bologna and Hamburg. | |
| 19 Jun 16 | Theatr Clwyd, Mold :: V810 listing details L1433320761 |
T01436388328The acclaimed Canadian pianist opens this year's International Piano Series. Alongside some of Scarlatti's intricately written and high-spirited keyboard works, Hewitt offers two pieces that describe parting and reunion: Bach's lively Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved Brother and Beethoven's Sonata Les Adieux. Liszt's Petrarch Sonata No.123 provides a poetic bridge towards the Sonata Apr?s une lecture de Dante, one of this composer's most dramatic and dazzling works. | |
| 6 Oct 15 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01641885229 |
T01067905027In An Evening of French Music, Hewitt will be joined by one of the world's most admired sopranos, Dame Felicity Lott, renowned for her interpretations of French song. Alongside keyboard works by master Baroque composers Couperin and Rameau, Dame Felicity will delight with M?lodies by Hahn, Messager, and Chabrier. | |
| 23 Aug 15 to 24 Aug 15 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L704506220 |
Four Quartets with Roger Allam - T1820286341First published as a collection in 1943, Four Quartets brought together four of Eliot's timeless and meditative poems: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding. Roger Allam will give an intimate reading of the entire work, around which Hewitt will perform the spiritual music of Bach and Messiaen. | |
| 3 Aug 15 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L1620191764 |
Back Goldberg Variations - T0279496118Described as 'the outstanding Bach pianist of her generation' (The Sunday Times), Angela Hewitt presents Bach's much-loved Goldberg Variations in a venue not unlike the antechamber for which it was supposedly written. Her interpretations have become renowned all over the world for their strong emotional impact, and will be all the more powerful heard within the unique acoustics of the Playhouse. | |
| 1 Aug 15 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L929690125 |
Couperin/Faure/Rameau - T01107443853 | |
| 1 Jun 12 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L01472788870 |
T1088463308Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has acquired a following for her penetrating interpretations of repertoire from the Baroque era to the 20th century. She presents a programme pairing works by Bach and Handel with pieces that their imaginative variations helped to inspire by Beethoven and Brahms. Opening with the most charming and graceful of Bach’s keyboard partitas, she continues with Beethoven’s epic Variations, based on a theme from his own Eroica Symphony. The second half pairs a high-spirited suite by Handel - a relative rarity - with Brahms’s full-blooded response to it in his mighty Variations on a Theme by Handel, which reaches its climax with a stunning fugue. | |
| 29 Mar 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0839787817 |
T1894644617Company City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. | |
| 18 Mar 11 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L449144488 |
T0346716138Music Schumann (Arabessque) / Davidsbundletanze / Waldszenen and Sonata No 2). | |
| 2 Nov 09 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L29753993 |
| 29 Oct 09 | Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham :: V0165922284 listing details L01484897400 |
T01772412565Angela Hewitt's interpretations of Bach have been winning accolades the world over and this recital follows on from her sell-out performances of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier in last season's International Piano Series. She now turns her attention to Bach's most sublime keyboard work, the Goldberg Variations, which she plays in its entirety. | |
| 29 Apr 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L02088344750 |
T1641714852Music Bach (Chromatic Fantasy and fugue BWV 903). Music Bach (French Overture BWV 831). Music Ravel (Sonatine). Music Liszt (Sonata in B minor). | |
| 18 May 05 | Gala Theatre, Durham :: V0146218420 listing details L315127823 |
T270054482Music Bach (English Suite No 6 in D minor). Music Mendelssohn (Prelude and Fugue in E minor Op 35 No 1). Music Mendelssohn (Prelude and Fugue in F minor Op 35 No 5). Music Faure (Theme et Variations Op 73). Music Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin). | |
| 28 Oct 04 | Usher Hall, Edinburgh :: V0738357779 listing details L026069148 |
T85172491Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music F.Couperin (13e Ordre from Troisieme livre de pieces de clavecin). Music Mendelssohn (2 Preludes and Fugues from Op 35). Music Faure (Theme et Variations Op 73). Music Schumann (Humoreske Op 20). | |
| 24 Oct 04 to 26 Oct 04 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L1972323698 |
T01704047793Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music J.S. Bach (English Suite No 6 in D minor). Music Mendlessohn (prelude and Fugue in E minor Op 35 No 1). Music Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in F minor Op 35 No 5). Music Faure (Theme et Variations Op 73). Music Schumann (Humoreske Op 20). | |
| 14 Oct 04 | Lancaster Arts, Lancaster :: V522 listing details L0274159802 |
T14229199Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music Couperin (Sixieme Ordre). Music Ravel (Miroirs). Music Bach (Goldberg Variations BWV 988). | |
| 14 Nov 03 | Town Hall, Reading :: V1710125320 listing details L01358268218 |
Piano Recital - T585377986Music Couperin (Sixieme Ordre). Music Ravel (Miroirs). Music Bach (Goldberg Variations). | |
| 5 Nov 03 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L121068901 |
T0215452745Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). | |
| 15 Mar 03 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L1658903118 |
T01064499831Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music Francois Couperin (18th Ordre from Pieces de clavecin Book III). Music Messiaen (Eight Preludes). | |
| 12 Jan 03 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L01564419928 |
T01006271046Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music Bach (Italian Concerto; 6th English Suite). Music Ravel (Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; Le Tombeau de Couperin). | |
| 31 Aug 02 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L0182812355 |
Keyboard Concerti - T1898822824Company Britten Sinfonia. Music Mozart. Music Bach. | |
| 4 May 02 | St John's Smith Square, Inner London :: V01501089046 listing details L843228835 |
T0512428728Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music Bach (Toccata in C minor BWV911). Music Mozart (Fantasia in C minor K396). Music Beethoven (Sonata no 15 in D op 28 - Pastoral). | |
| 14 Jan 02 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L0778451517 |
T01245705519Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music J S Bach (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 nos 13-24 BWV858-869; English Suite no 6 in D minor BWV811). | |
| 8 Jun 01 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L01964423152 |
T1087023275Performer Angela Hewitt (piano). Music J S Bach (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 nos 1-12 BWV846-857); Ouverture Partita in French style in B minor BWV831). | |
| 5 Jun 01 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L0185741422 |
T0495841199Music Bach. Music Haydn. Music Beethoven. Music Ravel. Music Liszt. | |
| 20 Jan 01 | Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington :: V563 listing details L0881552853 |
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| 16 Apr 24 | Stoller Hall, Manchester :: V1083679661 listing details L1610372259 |
| 21 Jul 16 | Alive Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn :: V68 listing details L1296586415 |
| 16 Oct 14 | Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham :: V0165922284 listing details L283539194 |
| 5 May 13 | The Atkinson, Southport :: V0485350863 listing details L492985471 |
| 2 Oct 12 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0690758227 |
| 4 May 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L043074614 |
| 20 Jan 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0565315868 |
| 22 May 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01677606568 |
| 22 Mar 03 | Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington :: V563 listing details L0728631440 |
| 23 Oct 01 | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L01427826391 |
