Hyperion
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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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You either love or hate Rutter's Christmas music, but for me, Christmas is John Rutter. Complete with sublime melodies, choir-friendly textures and just the right amount of frivolity, this... —
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This is above all music to beguile the ear. The performances are a delight. What with Carlo Ipata's liquid tone and secure virtuosity, and the brightness, nimbleness and transparency of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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Shelley is a first-rate advocate, with passage-work of crystalline clarity, light-footed pedalling, and communicating a sense of deep commitment to this unjustly under-rated repertoire. The... —
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Above all, he always gives the impression that he’s thought everything through and come up with something authentically fresh – no striking attitudes or provoking for the sake of it...if you’re... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2003, Editor's Choice
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Marc-André Hamelin puts us further in his debt with another superbly played disc of Alkan … [the Symphony’s] big-boned, exorbitantly taxing writing draws appropriately stunning pianism from... —
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Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... —
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Everything has been deeply considered. Everything works. Hewitt makes a beautiful, limpid sound; her ornaments are exquisitely precise as well as sounding natural; she uses the subtle shadings... —
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Building a Library, December 2000, Piano Choice
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