GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Music Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "turning convention topsy-turvy, she reminds us in her vehement, brightly lit performances that Faure objected to pianists who play his music 'with the shutters down'" Gramophone Magazine, September 2013 |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 14 No 1, Op 31 No 1, Op 49 Nos 1 & 2, Op 81a Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] Another instalment of Angela Hewitt's much- lauded Beethoven presents five piano sonatas, culminating with the masterly 'Les adieux'. As usual, Angela's booklet notes muse compellingly on the music, performance practice and all things Beethovenian. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas-Vol 2 (Incls Piano Sonata in C minor 'Pathetique' Op 13) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] 'The Pastoral sonata leads off Angela Hewitt's second Beethoven sonata cycle instalment, and she taps into the music's overall geniality while also paying heed to its darker corners … I love Hewitt's conversational give and take between the droning... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 5 (Nos 2, 5, 24, 31) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Here is a stimulating well-contrasted programme. Each sonata benefits from Angela Hewitt's beautifully clean-cut pianistic commant, in which every score marking is placed within a precisely articulated interpretative overview." BBC Music Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Vol 4 (Incls Sonata No 18 'The Hunt') Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] Angela Hewitt presents a fourth volume in her acclaimed series of Beethoven's piano sonatas, which has delighted her fans worldwide. The little-known Sonata in B flat major, Op 22, the last of Beethoven's 'early' sonatas, is recorded alongside Op... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Piano works (incls Suite Bergamasque & Children's Corner) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "This is one of the better offerings for Debussy's 150th anniversary...This generously filled disc finds Hewitt utterly persuasive in the three suites at its heart...Hyperion caputres the sound marvellously. Hewitt has the knack of noticing details... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti Sonatas Vol 2 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "Again, she has cleverly organised her selection into satisfying subgroups linked by key and mood. We begin in declamatory mode with the theatrical sonata in D major Kk491 followed by the sultry Iberian flavours of Kk492 and Kk146 and so on" Guardian |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): The Toccatas Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Jul/2002 ] 'Her performances could hardly be more stylish or impeccable, more vital or refined; and, as a crowning touch, Hyperion's sound is superb.'(Gramophone) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Keyboard Concertos (Nos 1, 5, 7 & Triple) Angela Hewitt (Piano) / Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "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." Gramophone Magazine |
J. S. BACH
The Keyboard Concertos (complete) Angela Hewitt (Piano) /Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2007 ] EDITOR'S CHOICE (Gramophone) CD OF THE MONTH (Gramophone) CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK (The Sunday Times) ALBUM OF THE WEEK (Musicweek) CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK (The Daily Telegraph) DISC OF THE MONTH (Classic FM Magazine) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto / Introduction and Allegro / etc Angela Hewitt (piano) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hannu Lintu [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] Angela Hewitt's recordings of Schumann's solo piano works for Hyperion have been described as 'revelatory … something to cherish' (Gramophone) and 'unreservedly superb' (The Guardian). Now she turns her attention to the works for piano and orchestra... |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 9 and 9 Angela Hewitt (piano) / Orchestra da Camera di Mantova [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] "Hewitt directs the performances from the keyboard; with the piano well forward of the orchestra in the sound picture, her playing is typically crisp, and occasionally perhaps a bit too brisk, though its attention to detail is immaculate" The... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op102 (Nos. 1 & 2) & Variations Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) / Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] 'Absorbing interpretations, where the two players instinctively click and the music comes across with vibrancy, sensitivity and a galvanising unanimity of purpose' (The Daily Telegraph) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin Piano Music Freddy Kempf, Alfredo Perl, Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] More than two hours of beautiful piano music for solo piano by one of the instrument's best-loved composers, played by three of today's greatest pianists. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 27 Angela Hewitt (piano), Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Hannu Lintu (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE WEEK |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K310-311 & 330-333 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] Angela Hewitt's voyage of discovery through Mozart's piano sonatas is proving a joy, the works sounding newly minted in vital, alert accounts which respect their scale and sensibility while revealing influences of Mozart's orchestral and concerto... |