2015 recording
CDA68146 81 minutes 58 seconds
Sixteen years have passed since Angela Hewitt’s first, justly celebrated, version of the ‘Goldbergs’. She here commits to record her ever-evolving response to a work which contains the ‘shadowed lesson of the whole world’, and which continues to play a central role in her life as an artist.
DIAPASON D'OR
‘The pianist's enviable polyphonic acumen and dance-orientated conception continue to operate at full capacity, albeit on a deeper and subtler level, as comparative listening reveals’ (Gramophone)
BBC Music Magazine
‘More than any contemporary player, she manages to suggest the harpsichord’s plucking mechanism with her brilliant articulation—the trills of Variation 16!’ (The Sunday Times)
BBC Music Magazine‘More than any contemporary player, she manages to suggest the harpsichord’s plucking mechanism with her brilliant articulation—the trills of Variation 16!’ (The Sunday Times)