Angela Hewitt
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Angela Hewitt is on characteristic top form in three of Beethoven’s iconic sonatas … Hewitt’s intelligent planning gives it [Pathétique] a hardcore makeover. The extremes of dynamic range are... —
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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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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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
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Angela Hewitt responds intuitively and alluringly to the multi-faceted character of these sonatas —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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an exquisite Faure recital...The purity and strong, supple backbone of her playing lets Faure's inventive genius, his extraordinary sensitivity to colour, harmonic shading, texture and eloquence,... —
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Hewitt allows [the Sonata's] huge single-movement span to unfold with a sense of space and a purposeful clarity - qualities akin to the manner of Beethoven's late sonatas...Hewitt, a hugely... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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If this first volume is anything to go by, the journey will be a joy...Hewitt makes them sound effortless. Her articulation is clean, the pedalling lightly judicious, her fingers nimble and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Hewitt likes to guide her listener, demonstrating this point and that, which can distract… As you might expect, her way with the fingery textures of the first movement [of the Waldstein] is... —
