Schwertsik, Kurt - Angela Hewitt's Bach Book (Piano)

"For the generation following that of her fellow Canadian Glenn Gould, Hewitt has become almost synonymous with Bach on the piano" (reviewing the Bach Book concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, November 2010).

"Weaved around lay the real Bach, glorious and unfiltered. Sunshine radiated from Hewitt’s crisp dispatch of the English Suite No 4; steely power pervaded the C minor Toccata, BWV 911. Best of all, the three-part Inventions shook off the pedagogical corset to become shimmering delights of dancing colours, topped by pure, bleak tragedy. A classy night" (reviewing the Bach Book concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, November 2010).

"Matched in their delicacy by the thundering heft of the C minor Toccata, the evening was rounded off by a transcription of Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Outside the confines of the official programme there was a delightful sense of off-duty excess, culminating in a final cadence and climactic ritenuto worthy of Classic FM" (reviewing the Bach Book concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, November 2010).