Angela Hewitt: Bach - Prelude & Fugue No. 17 in A-flat major BWV 886 | WTC Book II

[@brmh1667]

Classical elegance and beauty, so rare these days. This is a wonderful performance by a gifted concert pianist.

[@Rigpasword]

Sublime! Heavenly notes from the one and only Master, exquisitely performed by one of our time's great Bach interpreters. Bravo Angela! Bravo EuroArts Channel for this superb series.

[@blondellemarie-jeanne3845]

Merci , c est splendide .Je savoure chacune de vos interprétations.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@herveverbaert254]

oui, une grande spécialiste de Bach! Beau son, bel clarté de la polyphonie, conduite musicale très intelligente, beau phrasé!

[@Merike7173]

Thank you Angela Hewitt, it was absolutely beautiful and tasteful Bach's performance.

[@FlameofDemocracy]

The settings and unique style are incomparable. I am a fan.

[@katbullar]

Absolutely beautiful, colorfull, great sense of style and beauty

[@DangerRussDayZ6533]

Fugue 4:06

[@blondellemarie-jeanne3845]

Un moment de grâce.❤❤❤

[@calmunson5022]

Tries to hide a smile at 3:45. LOL Thanks Bach and Angela Hewitt! On to the Fugue!

[@kobachorr]

Lovely playing...another magnificent fugue from the WTC.

[@uchigasaki]

She is one of the most excellent performer of Bach today.

[@Tizohip]

one of the most beautifull fugues

[@enrothable]

So tastefully and sensitively played.

[@HansWagenmakers]

Vielen Dank. Wunderbar. Kann man immer wieder zuhören

[@arnebovarne7759]

Best version on youtube

[@calmunson5022]

Like the Prelude, the harmonic structures in last few measures of the Fugue are very dense and abstruse. But unlike the Prelude which Ms Hewitt slows down so as to savor it, the Fugue she pushes on at tempo as if to say "Enough with this maddening cleverness! Onward and finish!"

[@RoboticsBay]

Love Angela Hewitt! Sadly her recordings are so hard to find

[@hipocoristico15]

This is really great.

[@AndrewStockley]

Eternal beauty.

[@orqsilva]

Wonderful playing. Not too fast, which I think was how it was intended.

[@dewaynejimison3858]

Beautiful!

[@markhughes7927]

Very good❤ lovely!

[@meredydddavies957]

This is a beautiful delivery. My 'go-to' recordings of the 48 was always the Glenn Gould. But, a few years ago, I chanced upon a CD set by Ms Hewitt (from the 1980s I think?) which to my mind is equally fantastic. (Plus, she doesn't fell the need to sing along.) What is it with Canadians and Bach?

[@kobachorr]

Bach

[@JXS63J]

The more you listen to Angela the more you will realize what you missed by listening to Mr Gould. Angela understands Bach; Mr Gould only understands himself.

[@taeyangshairdryer6478]

4:06

[@mariannagalides9878]

Heavenly!

[@eduardtovmasyan283]

СПАСИБО!!!

[@johnpark9523]

4:05 fuga

[@Tizohip]

well tempered played

[@Canari2009]

Beautiful ! Who is the pianist ?

[@aistisragauskas4832]

Guy A Angela Hewitt :)

[@peteacher52]

Angela Hewitt - dare I say a worthy successor to the great Tatiana Nickolayeva?

[@libelle176]

Angela is much better.So much more colours.

[@jamesmclauchlan2928]

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[@republiccooper]

Beautiful performance. Remarkably sensitive. . . . At the same time, watching the plunging back-line I wonder why Yuja Wang caused such a stir with her attire. Haha

[@Tata-Sibiryatschka]

Ну все хорошо: звук, темп, романтика... Но платье! Спина голая до самого копчика! Мммм... Бах бы не одобрил этот маскарад. 😎 😇

[@БорисШалагінов]

Одобрил - не одобрил... А пять детей сделал!

[@ВераНадежда-ж7ч]

@@БорисШалагінов Двадцать один

[@mercoid]

Attended her performance of WTC I & II in NY some 10 years ago. Was disappointed. Every piece felt “phoned in” .

[@libelle176]

Peerless.

[@hastensavoir7782]

piano tone sounds too romantic for Bach

[@marktilley7222]

You mean in general or just this performance? If in general, listening to Glenn Gould play it should change your mind. It’s night and day compared to Hewitt.

[@libelle176]

Hewitt is a relevation against Gould´s horrible clatter.

[@libelle176]

No.

[@hastensavoir7782]

@@marktilley7222 the PIANO. Not the player

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

@@libelle176 Gould isn’t even my favorite Bach interpreter, but it’s pretty obvious he‘s pretty much untouchable when it comes to playing fugues. Sounds like you’re just hating

[@Astor962]

Playing Bach on the piano is like putting donkey's ears on a racehorse ...

[@dcomea]

Stupidaggine!....

[@MLCflash]

For me the harpsichord sounds often too sharp. Bach himself would never ignore and try new instruments and I’m sure if he knew our pianos nowadays, he would compose for the instrument and love to play on it!

[@Astor962]

@@MLCflash Instead I think that we will never know if Bach would have chosen a modern piano, and that the only sure thing is that he had other keyboards available, sharp or not. I am also convinced that it is a foolish presumption to imagine what a composer who lived three centuries ago preferred, especially if he was a genius like J. S. Bach.

[@MLCflash]

@@Astor962 He was interested in new techniques concerning key-instruments. We know that because his sons have written about it. And since he experimented so much with different instruments, settings etc. in his compositions we can surely say he was an inventive person and not a fixed to one opinion mind.

[@Astor962]

@@MLCflash Actually, we know from his sons that Johann Sebastian Bach's favourite instrument was the clavichord. Only at the end of his life, he purchased two Silbermann instruments, two fortepiano to be exact, namely, instruments different from modern pianos. Furthermore, until then, it appears that he had little interest in that type of instrument. However, I think that playing his keyboard music on a modern piano is a bad choice, which sacrifices original dynamics and colour. I believed that this practice had ended with Glenn Gould, however, for about twenty years, pianists such as Angela Hewitt use a harpsichord technique to make themselves appreciated by a supericial audience looking for easy listening effects.

[@johnpark9523]

4:02