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Angela Hewitt’s Bach Goldberg Variations are neither. Although this monumental work has been in her repertoire for at least a quarter of a century (she first played them as a teenager), Hewitt doesn’t sound bored for a moment!
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Aria da capo (2’40) Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations is captured here on disc in what is virtually a “live” performance. After four days in the recording studio (in this case, London’s wonderful Henry Wood Hall), Angela had every variation on tape, but wanted to try the opening Aria again.
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.
May 3, 2018 · May 3, 2018 at 1:12 p.m. EDT. Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt was presented by the National Museum for Women in the Arts as part of the 20th-anniversary season of its Shenson Chamber Music...
Sep 30, 2016 · Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (2015 Recording) - Album by Angela Hewitt - Apple Music. Angela Hewitt. CLASSICAL · 2016. Preview. Here’s J.S. Bach in his element. Not the distant organist but a fully fledged keyboard virtuoso with a showpiece full of dazzling pyrotechnics, flashy hand-crossings, and quicksilver mood changes.
