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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." - Truman Capote

Angela Hewitt

Pianist Angela Hewitt has established herself at the highest level, not least through her superb, award-winning recordings for Hyperion. Completed in 2005, her eleven-year project to record all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times) and has won her a huge following. She has been hailed as “the pre-eminent Bach pianist of our time” (The Guardian) and “nothing less than the pianist who will define Bach performance on the piano for years to come” (Stereophile). She has a vast repertoire ranging from Couperin to the contemporary. Her discography also includes CDs of Granados, Beethoven, Schumann, Rameau, Chabrier, Olivier Messiaen, the complete solo works of Ravel, the complete Chopin Nocturnes and Impromptus, a Handel/Haydn album, and three discs devoted to the music of Couperin. Her recordings of the complete solo keyboard concertos of J.S. Bach with the Australian Chamber Orchestra entered the billboard charts in the U.S.A. only weeks after their release, and were named Record of the Month in Gramophone magazine. Future releases include the works of Robert Schumann for piano and orchestra with the Deutsche-Sinfonie-Orchester and conductor Hannu Lintu, solo works of Debussy, the Bach Flute Sonatas with Andrea Oliva, and a cycle of Mozart PIano Concertos.