She is one of the most acclaimed Bach interpreters in the whole world. However, her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. Angela Hewitt has been “breathing music” since her early childhood. Her father, organist at the Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, passed down to her the love for stylish perfection and for the deep spirituality of Bach’s music. Angela has tackled his whole imposing corpus for keyboard music, recording it for Hyperion in the course of 10 years and delving into its freeflows of ideas, its sense of joy and dance, the inexhaustible creativity bustling over the constructive rigour of his compositions.
Tireless, endowed with a strict self-discipline and a strong personality, the extraordinary Canadian pianist had Jean-Paul Sévilla as mentor, who introduced her to the French repertoire.
The programme of her comeback to Sacile becomes some sort of excursus through her most celebrated interpretations and of some of the authors she feels more akin to: Bach, Scarlatti, Ravel and Chabrier.
« Hewitt’s stylistic trademarks are here – dancing
rhythms, nuanced touch and sparkling clarity.
She colours each voice so distinctively, you can
hear right into the complex textures.
But her greatest achievement is to reveal the
spiritual depth that suffuses this work.
It becomes not just an exploration of all the things
counterpoint can do, but an exploration of just about
everything that music can possibly do – and then some. »
Pamela Margles (www.thewholenote.com, on Angela Hewitt's CD “Bach: The Art of Fugue”)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (Eisenach, 1685 – Lipsia, 1750)
Partita n. 1 in si bemolle maggiore, BWV 825
Partita n. 2 in do minore, BWV 826
DOMENICO SCARLATTI (Napoli, 1685 - Madrid, 1757)
MAURICE RAVEL (Ciboure, 1875 - Parigi, 1937)
EMMANUEL CHABRIER (Ambert, 1841 - Parigi, 1894)
Bourrée Fantasque