I love Angela Hewitt’s interpretations. She makes every cell of my body pop when I listen to her crystal clear accurate interpretations. Thank you miss Hewitt❤
There may be no other pianist to whom such complete integration of mind, body and spirit of the music so nearly approaches perfection. To watch Meister Hewitt playing is to become involved with her.
I'm saddened by the loss of her prestigious piano, one of its kind and the only last piece. i pray something can be done..Angela, i feel you pain..we love you..
Angela Hewitt's Bach is wonderful! It is the most musical, pianistic Bach that I have heard from any recent performer. She plays with such joy--her playing is accessible but never superficial, always illuminated (but never overburdened) by knowledge. I have nearly worn out her recording of the "48"!
This is my favorite recording of BWV 892. A.H. brings a vital introspective quality to the powerful and dense fugue which is missing in many otherwise perfectly enjoyable recordings. From her well-proportioned tempos to her careful textural and dynamic shading, I love everything about her recording of this very tricky P/F.
You can lose your beautiful piano but never your ability to play beautifully. I’m sorry that happened. A one of a kind piano getting destroyed breaks my heart. But I listen to you and would gladly trade a one of a kind piano (if I had one) for your accomplishments. I hope you can get another piano made just for you.
I could call you Mrs. Bach, just wonderful, I wish I new how to play piano so I could get what you get when you are studying and playing JS Bach. Very well played Angela Bach!
Joshua - The reason she's speaking is because this performance is taken from a DVD about Bach's P&F from both WTC books. There are 3 other pianists featured besides AH: Joanna MacGregor, Nikolai Demidenko & Andrei Gavrilov. They are also here on YT. Each one takes different groups of P&F and they all discuss the work before each performance. It was the decision of the person who produced the DVD to format it this way.
About Angela Hewitt's introductory comment "Often, after the most sorrowful or dark moments comes great light [...]": incidentally I find that this applies as well (and even more) to the light-spirited B Major prelude and fugue No. 23 from Book I (BWV 868), which follows the rather austere and brooding prelude and fugue No. 22 in b flat minor (BWV 867). While No. 22 from Book II (BWV 891) is indeed grand and serious compared to BWV 892, I don't find it particularly sad.
You're onto something there, ron. Gould - and some other big personality pianists - really do take you on a trip. Hewitt is not trying to do that. She's just delivering Bach's architecture. That is all.
No expert here, but I don't think so. Assuming they could have covered up the name, another difference from the picture of the ruined piano shows it has four hinges on the lid (possibly 5 with two close together in the front). This appears to have two close together in the front, but only two additional ones, not three. The brass on the Fazioli F278 appears brighter than this. Can't see how many pedals this one has. Otherwise they look very similar to the untrained eye, and this is obviusly a very good piano. (The new article I read doesn't say anything about HOUSE movers, but that piano movers dropped it. Even piano movers can make mistakes.)
I wanna hear Martha Argerich doing the 48 - in my opinion she is just better at Bach on the piano than these wonderful musicians - and the obvious successor to Gould as an interpreter of Bach on piano - but she refuses to record them. Why?????????????
What pedalling? She hardly uses pedal. She does it with fingers. The hall that she is playing in is resonant. She plays extremely well. Could you play any better? She has had MANY years of experience. She was already in her 50s when she performed this. Can you play Bach better than her? I'd like to hear you play this piece.
Yikes, john evans. Look up the psychological term 'projection'. You're dumping your own internal associations onto the poor woman, who's busy focusing on Bach. You don't know her; and she has no responsibility to meet your expectations of what her gender should look like at the piano!!
The world will certainly be a much better place if we all listen and enjoy Bach music...
Her nuancing is just exquisite, but she also knows how to make this music dance and flow. I can't imagine Bach being played better than this.
I love Angela Hewitt’s interpretations. She makes every cell of my body pop when I listen to her crystal clear accurate interpretations. Thank you miss Hewitt❤
It is amazing, her control of the dynamics, the exquisite tone of the instrument, the phrasing and the direction of each voice, this music is alive ❤️
I was sitting here when I my dad wanted to show me her music. It is absolutely astonishing. I love her passion and grace in her piano playing❤
There may be no other pianist to whom such complete integration of mind, body and spirit of the music so nearly approaches perfection. To watch Meister Hewitt playing is to become involved with her.
I'm saddened by the loss of her prestigious piano, one of its kind and the only last piece. i pray something can be done..Angela, i feel you pain..we love you..
What happened to the piano?
@ian bounds 127
It was dropped by movers and destroyed. It was not done intentionally, but the loss is just the same.
Wait and they cant just build another one? I know that it’s unique in its 4 pedals form but it can be possible, no?
@@anthonybawia99 They built her a new one. In fact, they built five, and let her chose the one she liked best of the five.
@@elliotnaess8020 Damn. But still every piano is unique, it's a different feeling.
Angela Hewitt's Bach is wonderful! It is the most musical, pianistic Bach that I have heard from any recent performer. She plays with such joy--her playing is accessible but never superficial, always illuminated (but never overburdened) by knowledge. I have nearly worn out her recording of the "48"!
A fantastic technician and artist all in one❤️❤️❤️
Maybe someday I'll play this as well. Angela plays this so beautifully!
This is my favorite recording of BWV 892. A.H. brings a vital introspective quality to the powerful and dense fugue which is missing in many otherwise perfectly enjoyable recordings. From her well-proportioned tempos to her careful textural and dynamic shading, I love everything about her recording of this very tricky P/F.
So sorry for the loss of your piano. Please know there are people all over the world who support you and hold you in their prayers.
You can lose your beautiful piano but never your ability to play beautifully. I’m sorry that happened. A one of a kind piano getting destroyed breaks my heart. But I listen to you and would gladly trade a one of a kind piano (if I had one) for your accomplishments. I hope you can get another piano made just for you.
She's like the Bionic Woman. Her fingers move so fast, and play this super hard piece perfectly. What a gift!
The harmonies in the fugue are exquisite. Wonderful performance.
The name of the DVD is "Bach - The Well Tempered Clavier 48 Preludes and Fugues"
God I love Angela Hewitt's playing....incredible
"What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?" - Franz Liszt
This is mature Bach harmonically advanced roaming full of surprises .
This is beautiful: Angela plays of an exquisite way!
Superb playing of superb music
I usually am not that fond of Bach played on the piano, but this is so flowing; easy to listen to and 'understandable'.I like this very much.
Love the fugue! It is so peaceful without being at all boring.
Angela is great - just beautiful and serene.
I could call you Mrs. Bach, just wonderful, I wish I new how to play piano so I could get what you get when you are studying and playing JS Bach. Very well played Angela Bach!
But she HAS recorded the 48. As for Gould, yes, he was amazing, but thank God we have such a wealth of great interpreters to appreciate!
Joshua -
The reason she's speaking is because this performance is taken from a DVD about Bach's P&F from both WTC books. There are 3 other pianists featured besides AH: Joanna MacGregor, Nikolai Demidenko & Andrei Gavrilov. They are also here on YT. Each one takes different groups of P&F and they all discuss the work before each performance. It was the decision of the person who produced the DVD to format it this way.
When she is speaking, you can hear her ego is far beyond her ability to play.
Absolument superbe, ensorcelant même ! Merci.
Loved it! And the shooting of the video was sensibly restrained, unlike some other of dear Angela's videos.
Lovely playing!
Virtually everything by Bach is "flowing"...
Великолепно!
Не знал, что у Вас такой великолепный вкус!
Worthy of the Gould Standard! Perhaps Bach's genius is that his music inspires so many great readings.
Perfect technical mastery ! I can hear the beautiful lines A.H. is playing.
Just beautiful! :)
About Angela Hewitt's introductory comment "Often, after the most sorrowful or dark moments comes great light [...]": incidentally I find that this applies as well (and even more) to the light-spirited B Major prelude and fugue No. 23 from Book I (BWV 868), which follows the rather austere and brooding prelude and fugue No. 22 in b flat minor (BWV 867). While No. 22 from Book II (BWV 891) is indeed grand and serious compared to BWV 892, I don't find it particularly sad.
Angela Hewitt, Patron of EPTA UK
Bravo Ms Hewitt! I find this performance sensational. Could anyone point me to place where I can buy this DVD? I have searched, in vain.
Brilliantly...
Genial ... Amazing !
@laug66 Her recording of the Partita no. 2 and the English Suite no.2 are wonderful, aren't they?
Angela Hewitt nació para interpretar al kantor de Leipzig. Angela Hewitt was born to interpretate to the kantor of leipzig.
Слишком гладко все течёт. Разве нет содержания?, Если есть,то мало выявлено. Радость. Благая весть. Алилуйя.
Have you listened to Hewitt's Francois Couperin renditions? Oh, man... go check it out if you have not.
Gionni Sebastiano ha passato pre le vostre terre, sicuro
that is right!
Bmajor has the most interesting colors. Hewitts' playing is beautiful, but to go on a real trip listen to Gould!
You're onto something there, ron. Gould - and some other big personality pianists - really do take you on a trip. Hewitt is not trying to do that. She's just delivering Bach's architecture. That is all.
@@pbasswil Exactly.
Can't say I care for the dress, but the piece was beautiful!
2:20 fuga
Mit dem in Berlin abgestürzten Flügel spielen jetzt die Englein im Klavierhimmel...
so different by gould, but maybe more amazing
¿Alguno de ustedes sabe si Angela Hewitt ha interpretado en piano alguna de las partitas y sonatas
(BWV 1001 al 1006)?
+caver56 lo ignoro, pero esas partitas y sonatas para violín solo son la mejor demostración del talento de j s bach.
Si quieres escuchar una buena demostración de ese estilo, escucha la partita 6, BWV 830.
Yes she recorded the 6 keyboard partitas. It's also an excellent version in my opinion.
Steinway or Fazioli
It's easy: just watch Glenn Gould.
too decorative and romantic.
0:27
What is depicted in the the mural or painting? Artist and title anyone?
Is this the piano she lost ?
Just read it ?
I'm just listening to this without the video mostly but if they ever show the pedals then you'll know. The one that got ruined has 4.
Hannah Haddad th-cam.com/video/vyF2AhC-dPY/w-d-xo.html
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is this the piano that got dropped and destroyed beyond repair by house movers?
No expert here, but I don't think so. Assuming they could have covered up the name, another difference from the picture of the ruined piano shows it has four hinges on the lid (possibly 5 with two close together in the front). This appears to have two close together in the front, but only two additional ones, not three. The brass on the Fazioli F278 appears brighter than this. Can't see how many pedals this one has. Otherwise they look very similar to the untrained eye, and this is obviusly a very good piano. (The new article I read doesn't say anything about HOUSE movers, but that piano movers dropped it. Even piano movers can make mistakes.)
I like every Angelas interpretations of Bach....but,why you must speak before every interpretation???:D
Emmmmm, yo veo un problema, sus manos están diferentes con la música, párese que es falsa 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 la música es de andras s
I wanna hear Martha Argerich doing the 48 - in my opinion she is just better at Bach on the piano than these wonderful musicians - and the obvious successor to Gould as an interpreter of Bach on piano - but she refuses to record them. Why?????????????
All coked up lol
too slow... I prefer gould's interpretation
Playing Bach on the piano is like putting donkey's ears on a racehorse ...
Take away her pedalling, and she might just begin to play well, after a few more years of practice.
What pedalling? She hardly uses pedal. She does it with fingers. The hall that she is playing in is resonant. She plays extremely well. Could you play any better? She has had MANY years of experience. She was already in her 50s when she performed this. Can you play Bach better than her? I'd like to hear you play this piece.
Female pianists look so mournful when they play the piano.
Something is missing from their lives. True love, perhaps?
An effective means of preventing inane comments such as this?
Roasted!
Johnny, Johnny, does Anna look mournful here?
th-cam.com/video/rEGOihjqO9w/w-d-xo.html
Yikes, john evans. Look up the psychological term 'projection'. You're dumping your own internal associations onto the poor woman, who's busy focusing on Bach. You don't know her; and she has no responsibility to meet your expectations of what her gender should look like at the piano!!
Idiot