12 December 2020
Le Devoir, Christophe Huss
Bach: Goldberg Variations«Kolesnikov nous livre « ses » Goldberg, sans déformer « les » Goldberg. Et cet apport est aussi majeur que fascinant» (Le Devoir)
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Limelight, Australia, Greg Keane
Beethoven: Variations‘Hewitt invests this work [WoO80] … with the spirit of the Baroque and the austere elegance of the chaconne and the sarabande. The soft ending seems to come as a gentle reproof to anyone who thought he couldn’t do much with the original theme. Here, Hewitt combines both technical bravura with thematic and tempo cohesion. In the almost equally obscure Op 34 Six Variations on an Original Theme in F, which, Hewitt insightfully notes, is 'made' by the penultimate C Minor variation which, in her hands become a dark harbinger of the Funeral March of the Eroica Symphony. The theme in the succeeding 15 variations and a fugue, Op 35, the so-called Eroica Variations, is the best-known piece here and in Beethoven’s jaunty and most famous 'earworm' she is at her most exuberant, soaking up the generally (except the sombre minor key 14th) 'carnival' mood … Angela Hewitt at her best’ (Limelight, Australia)
