Music in Words: Angela Hewitt

20 SEP 2018 | THU | 6:30PM
Rehearsal Room, LG1/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
Moderator: Prof. Daniel Chua, Department of Music, HKU

[@mariapena4693]

Thank you Angela Hewitt for sharing with us. Divine!!!

[@fxjbird]

Thank you. I loved this. I also love the artist, she is a wonderful pianist, so giving of her time and talent. I especially love her recordings of Granados. Beautiful.

[@yswizzle666]

What a fascinating lady

[@leonardchileungman4925]

dated back to late 1990s after moving to Richmond, British Columbia, Canada from Hong Kong, once I attended a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Massey Theatre, New Westminster, there was Angela Hewitt playing J. M. Ravel’S piano concerto in g major…her stage presence was just marvellous 😊

[@francoriva55]

Angela ! We love you!!! Wishes from Bellagio Como lake italy !! 50 metres from Liszt House (1837)

[@BachFlip]

I love how worn her copies of The Well-Tempered Clavier look. I've had a copy of the ABRSM edition since I was young; it's tatty as hell, has fallen apart numerous times, and has almost more annotations than music in it - two very old but very well loved volumes there!

[@ShirleyKirsten]

Fazioli provides more crystalline ornaments as bore out when comparing Hewitt's Bach Inventions on the Fazioli, to the Wigmore Steinway (June 25, 2020) I yearned for the Fazioli. Hewitt is the Gold Standard in her artistry!

[@Michajeru]

She is the best, make no mistake about it.

[@marymaceachern7839]

Thank you Angela Hewitt.

[@johnk8174]

The dance examples from WTC, starting at 6:57... she just rattles those off. I would love to hear somebody give a 1 hour presentation with examples and commentary just on that! This is wonderful, thank you for uploading. 20:28 F# minor discussion of tempo 23:26 the characteristics of the different keys in Bach D major festive (trumpets in Bk 2, 4th partita) G Major celebratory, joy; Goldbergs Bb minor sorrowful, key rarely used then 31:04 Book 1 F minor, done 5 ways

[@AdamDavidFroman]

She's amazing.

[@samaritan29]

@@AdamDavidFroman your amazing

[@MrInterestingthings]

In the q&A section I'm amazed at the "ugly" sound of this Kawai . I can't believe the dead sound of the piano she is playing there . She wouldn't touch it if it was as bad as what I'm hearing . It's not because there is no pedal . It must be the microphones or the room .

[@da__lang]

I think this was before her Fazioli concert grand was destroyed.

[@ericspianoschool]

How is there no comments on this piece of art?

[@gebser6060]

... there is simply no room for any comments here I guess, one just listens ... with increasing awe and admiration.

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

Schirmer published a very fine musicological survey of the WTC, which actually got a lot of respect (can't remember the writer's name, though) and he considers the WTC I a minor fugue (which Ms. Hewitt loves) one of the very weaker parts of the series, calling it "a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing). Don't know who's right; I always liked the fugue (the most Beethovenian of Bach's fugues, very reminiscent of the a-minor fugue in IV of Beethoven's op. 101), but thought there may be some truth to negative assessment. I guess Hewitt agrees with my earlier appreciation. Maybe I'm somewhere in between now!

[@ricardobufo]

Gould had the supreme facility to play a well known piece completely differently from anyone else and still make sense .. and isn't that what music making is all about? We don't reproduce a composition but should re-create anew it each time. Angela shares Glen's propensity to sing & hum along with the music 🙃

[@ShirleyKirsten]

Yes, why did Gould play Invention 4 in D minor, in presto, with all detached notes?

[@glenngouldification]

Shirley Kirsten Because he could

[@glenngouldification]

Put down your damn portable devices !

[@ricardobufo]

String players make snide remarks about button pushers (pianists) who don't breath .. so I was interested to hear Angela say she had to be able to sing the line.

[@ArnulfVonMetz1]

*Fazioli*

[@ebolalegion]

Fazioli! Fazioli! Bring me the ravioli!

[@charlesdavis7087]

What's a fatziolie?

[@glenngouldification]

Charles Davis A REALLY expensive piano !

[@elliotnaess8020]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazioli

[@bachpianoproject6158]

Sometimes too much articulation for my taste. Not all fugues are dances. Why this non legato at 38:51? Themes should be taken slower and legato with more seriousness and greatness. For me this is more Bach like. Best example is the last fugue of book II that shoud be a great and majestic final rather than a light dance.

[@benedictdsilva3954]

Wonderful insight on Bach but I'm don't quite agree on the key explanation.Today we have A tuned to 440 hertz. That was not the case in the Baroque and Renaissance period. It was 415 and 465 respectively. Which means at 415 tuning D major sounded Db major accordingly to today's tuning. A better piano could have been arranged than this Kawai which has no tone. Fazioli has a strong direct sound. The complex colours of the Steinway are less. I still have to play more Fazioli pianos.

[@Mandrin1000]

Mit dem in Berlin abgestürzten Flügel spielen jetzt die Englein im Klavierhimmel...

[@glenngouldification]

Could have been a little kinder to Gould. But then his omnipresence 38 years after his death must follow her around everywhere. As far as interpretation issues Gould would say the 48 preludes and fugues have been recorded to death and could have stopped with Tureck as your standard in mainstream excellence. Time to try something different. Time to imagine different possibilities. The preludes and fugues are ideal for this as they are relatively short. I appreciate Hewitt and her amazing work ethic and worldwide promotions of Bach but I love and am inspired by Gould. Long live Gould !

[@samaritan29]

i prefer richter for WTC!

[@adolfopizzoli409]

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