Angela Hewitt

Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt’s performances of the music of J.S. Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

Her award-winning cycle of all the major keyboard works has been described as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). On her ‘Bach World Tour’ in 2008-2009, she performed The Well-Tempered Clavier in 21 countries and in 2016 she began her formidable ‘Bach Odyssey’, a series of 12 marathon recitals across the globe.

Her programme for the Howard Assembly Room features selections from the second book of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the bright, sunny atmospheres of the English Suite No 4 in F major. Eugen d’Albert’s transcription of one of Bach’s greatest organ works, the Passacaglia in C minor closes the concert.

Selections by the harpsichord master François Couperin ‘le Grand’– recorded by Hewitt for a revelatory Hyperion release – and three Scarlatti sonatas complete a rich tapestry of baroque keyboard music.

“This is no mechanical journey through the cycle of keys. This is life itself’.
– The Observer