1 January 1900

Bach: The French Suites
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‘Hewitt's playing makes Bach's music live, for me, in a way that even the greatest harpsichordists do not’ (The Sunday Times)
1 January 1900

Bach: The Inventions
CDA66746 

‘As close to how I would choose to hear [the music] as I have yet had the pleasure of doing’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
CDReview
Bach: The Inventions
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‘Performances of exemplary clarity and craftsmanship’ (CDReview)
1 January 1900
Organists' Review
Bach: The Italian Connection
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‘All these pieces are great fun! … a peach of a new release from a player whose Bach playing stands comparison with the very best’ (Organists' Review)
1 January 1900
Classic CD
Bach: The Italian Connection
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‘A highly refreshing and enjoyable recording’ (Classic CD)
1 January 1900
Classics Today France
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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«J'ai écouté plusieurs fois ces disques pour m'assurer que je n'étais pas victime d'un excès d'enthousiasme la première fois: à chaque reprise le plaisir n'a fait que croître» (Classics Today France)
1 January 1900

Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘Her fingers dance as well as sing: in the outer movements, rhythms are buoyantly sprung, and this communicates itself to the members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, whose slender string accompaniment in no way lessens their energy, while Hewitt responds by projecting the piano parts with all due attention to Bach's overall texture’ (International Record Review)
1 January 1900
The Times
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘Here the Fazioli is heard at its exquisite best, its spongey bass chords pumping with clarity, its treble caressing a heart-tuggingly beautiful legato out of the slow movement, while the dainty strings sketch an almost tongue-in-cheek pizzicato in the background. Hewitt's sense of phrase is masterful … the statements have regal import under the authoritative hands of this queen of keyboard playing’ (The Times)
1 January 1900
The Scotsman
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘Hewitt's performances are brilliantly alive. Her subtle lyricism adds a rich, occasionally dark dimension, possibly not as Bach himself would have envisaged, but always with a deep sense of musical integrity’ (The Scotsman)
1 January 1900
Metro
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘Her playing is absolutely captivating: she decorates the solo part with playful, come-hither ornamentation—twirls, flutters, arabesques—and yet it never disturbs the clear, logical path she forges through the course of each work. Her staccato touch has the force of sprung steel and yet her legato line is a miracle of smoothness and transparency. An absolute joy’ (Metro)
1 January 1900
Classic FM Magazine
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘The result of their historically informed modern-instrument take on the music is stunning, with crisp rhythms and singing melodic lines’ (Classic FM Magazine)
1 January 1900
The Daily Telegraph
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 2
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‘The familiar argument that Bach would have written for a piano if only he had had one is nowhere given more persuasive advocacy than in Hewitt's singing melodic lines, her judicious range of tonal colouring and in her touch, which combines the crispness and full flavour of a fresh apple. Take a bite of any of these concertos, and you will want to make a whole meal of them’ (The Daily Telegraph)
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