Bach doyen shows off her Romantic mettle

By Pamela Nash, 12 March 2016

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“a searching, forensic musicianship”

Reviewed at Royal Northern College of Music: Concert Hall, Manchester on 10 March 2016

Schubert, Six moments musicaux, D.780

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 17 in D minor "Tempest", Op.31 no.2

Haydn, Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob XVII:4

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in C major, K513 (Sonatas)

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in F major, K82

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K481

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata in A major, K24

Albéniz, Suite española (selection)

Falla, Fantasía baetica

Angela Hewitt, Piano

A national treasure revisits Montreal: Angela Hewitt plays Mozart

Ian Cochrane, 28th February

Angela Hewitt joins the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal for an exquisite rendering of a Mozart concerto, and Leonard Slatkin conducts Tchaikovsky's Winter Daydreams.

****1

Superb Mozart from Angela Hewitt and the BBC Philharmonic

Peter Connors, 11th February

Angela Hewitt gives magical Mozart with Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic and four twentieth century masterpieces looking back to the past complete a rewarding and unusual programme

****1

Clemens Schuldt conducts The Hallé in four contrasting masterpieces

Peter Connors, 24th November

A stunning Mozart piano concerto with Angela Hewitt and a dazzling recent piece are framed by serious but uplifting orchestral works by Britten and Strauss.

****1

Past Montreal victors return for Beethoven's Triple Concerto

Ian Cochrane, 9th November

Violinist Blake Pouliot, cellist Bryan Cheng, and pianist Angela Hewitt, all previous winners of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s Concours, return to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

***11

Angela Hewitt brings her revelatory Bach Odyssey to Cleveland

Sam Jacobson, 18th May

Angela Hewitt’s definitive all-Bach program was anchored by the first three of the English Suites.

****1

Knockout playing from the Tonkünstler in Edinburgh

Simon Thompson, 28th October

This concert at Usher Hall delivered extraordinary playing, in repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Bernstein and Sibelius.

*****

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Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash, a Harkness Fellow, studied the piano and harpsichord in London, Paris and the USA and holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. She has curated several contemporary harpsichord music events, and was the director of the British Harpsichord Society's International Composition Competition in 2014. Pamela has contributed articles and reviews for Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Contemporary Music Review and Sounding Board and was the producer for the recently-released recording of contemporary works for harpsichord, "Shadow Journey", on the Prima Facie label.

Angela Hewitt: Bach doyen shows off her Romantic mettle at the RNCM