Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 2/2, 10/1, 78 & 110 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 2/2, 10/1, 78 & 110 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Angela Hewitt has been much praised in her earlier recordings of Beethoven’s piano sonatas—displaying ‘exquisite taste’—and now turns her ‘uncluttered clarity of thought and inspired structural pacing’ to four more works spanning the composer’s career. As ever, Angela’s accompanying notes provide fascinating insights into both the music and her performances.
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Angela Hewitt – Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2008) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Angela Hewitt – Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2008)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:18:18 minutes | 3,08 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:18 minutes | 974 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Source: SACD
~ Recorded in Das Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Dobbiaco, Italy, on 1-4 June 2006. ~

Hyperion’s Record of the Month for January takes multi-award-winning Baroque legend Angela Hewitt to the elegantly refined French court of the early eighteenth century.

Jean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishment—named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745—yet his pedigree was hardly auspicious. For a time a travelling violinist, he held numerous undistinguished posts as provincial organist (rarely serving out his contract and on one occasion deliberately playing sufficiently badly to ensure his dismissal) before finally settling in Paris at the age of forty.

Something of a theorist—his treatise On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord makes for essential reading—Rameau’s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words ‘true music … the language of the heart’. Some sixty keyboard works are known, gathered by key into five suites; Hewitt here performs three of them. Courtly dances (including the famous Tambourin) sit alongside more programmatic movements (such as Les sauvages—Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.

Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights.

Angela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.

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Angela Hewitt – Angela Hewitt plays Handel & Haydn (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Angela Hewitt plays Handel & Haydn (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Recorded and released in the ‘anniversary year’ of both Handel and Haydn, Hyperion’s Record of the Month is an effusive celebration of the two composers, performed by an artist whose renditions of 17th- and 18th-century keyboard works on the piano have received the highest possible acclaim. This recital is a welcome gesture from the ‘high priestess of Bach’ (The Sunday Times). As you will hear, Hewitt’s trademark clarity of line, singing tone and instinctive musicality are perfectly suited to the urbane elegance of the works recorded here.
In a fascinating and personal booklet note, Angela Hewitt takes the listener through her own childhood experiences of the works of Handel and Haydn that led her to select the works for this disc, and includes an interesting discussion of historical performance practice. This is an enchanting release that will delight Angela’s legion of fans.
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Angela Hewitt – Scarlatti: Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Scarlatti: Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

After the success of Angela Hewitt’s first album of Scarlatti sonatas, it is a joy to announce the appearance of a second. As Angela herself writes of this new selection, many fresh to her repertoire, this is ‘appealing, unique, dazzling’ music—performed here with the greatest of panache.
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Angela Hewitt – Love songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt’s new album is clearly destined to become a favourite. Some of the best-known musical declarations of love across the centuries, heard in transcriptions by some of the great pianists (including Angela herself); this is simply exquisite and not to be missed.
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Angela Hewitt – Beethoven – Piano Sonatas Volume 7 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Volume 7 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

This latest instalment of Angela Hewitt’s Beethoven is bookended by the great ‘Tempest’ and Op 109 sonatas. The performances—incentive enough to acquire this release—are as usual complemented by Angela’s own booklet notes which provide real insight into how she approaches these masterworks.
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Angela Hewitt – Bach: The Six Partitas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Bach: The Six Partitas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

‘Brilliant, well-sounding, expressive and always new’ was the verdict of Bach’s first biographer on the six Partitas, a description which applies equally to Angela Hewitt’s wonderful new recording of what Bach designated his ‘Opus 1’. Angela describes a lifetime of living with Bach’s music as ‘a great gift and a lifelong adventure’; an adventure in which we are fortunate to have such an authoritative companion and guide.
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Angela Hewitt – Piano Music by Emmanuel Chabrier (2006) MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Anyone with a passing awareness of her wonderful recordings for Hyperion knows that Angela Hewitt is one of the world’s leading interpreters of Bach, and that she’s no slouch in recording works by Chopin, Couperin, Messiaen, and Ravel, either. Add to this distinguished roster the name of Emmanuel Chabrier, whose keyboard works Hewitt recorded in 2004, and rendered with as much technical polish and expressive depth as anyone could lavish on them. Whether or not such light and sometimes inconsequential piano music deserves special treatment, Hewitt is unstinting in her musicality, and she delivers colorful, idiomatic readings of these late nineteenth century miniatures that arguably make them sound better than they really are. All will agree that Hewitt’s sensitivity and skill are beyond dispute and that this program is an excellent showcase for her astonishing abilities; it is only secondarily of interest because of Chabrier’s music, which tends toward mildly picturesque vignettes at best and shallow parlor novelties at worst. In the former category are the late pieces, Aubade (1883), Habanera (1885), and Bourrée fantasque (1891), which exude sophistication and dry wit, and seem slightly ahead of their time; also worth hearing for their charming modern qualities are the posthumously published Ballabile, Caprice, and Feuillet d’album (all 1897). Something of a mixed bag is Dix pièces pittoresques (1881), which are character sketches and dances in a pretty salon style, but most are melodically trite, harmonically predictable, and emotionally superficial. The earliest works offered, the Impromptu (1873) and the Ronde champêtre (ca. 1870), are less compelling, except perhaps for a few eccentric harmonies and rhythms that vaguely anticipate Ravel; little else recommends them except their period color. So fans of Angela Hewitt will rejoice that she performs here with her usual brilliance and panache, but they may feel a little less jubilant about her choice of repertoire this time out. Hyperion’s recording, however, is sublime in every way.

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Andrea Oliva, Angela Hewitt – Bach Flute Sonatas (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Andrea Oliva, Angela Hewitt - Bach Flute Sonatas (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Fans of Angela Hewitt will be delighted to find her in chamber mode, accompanying Andrea Oliva (described as ‘one of the best flutists of his generation, a shining star in the world of the flute’ by Sir James Galway) in a programme of J S Bach’s flute sonatas (including one by his most famous and talented son, CPE). Of unfailingly remarkable quality, all these works exploit the full potential of an instrument which was only just coming into its own when they were written. Oliva’s lyricism and agility coupled with Hewitt’s musicianship—not to mention her lifelong rapport with Bach’s music—make this an album to treasure.
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Angela Hewitt – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 106 & 111 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 106 & 111 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Both the sonatas recorded here are recent additions to Angela Hewitt’s repertoire, and the results amply justify the patience and wisdom of her approach. A ﬁtting end to a magniﬁcent Beethoven sonata cycle.
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Angela Hewitt – Domenico Scarlatti – Sonatas (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Angela Hewitt – Domenico Scarlatti – Sonatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:08 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: February 2015, Beethovensaal, Hannover, Germany

Baroque pianist par excellence Angela Hewitt turns to the rich seam of Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas. There are 555 in total—here Angela performs sixteen of the finest.

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