Browse: Angela Hewitt Beethoven (series)

The opening Allegretto ma non troppo of Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101 finds her in suitably reflective mood...It's in the Finale, however, where this performance takes off...Here, her long-term... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is a stimulating well-contrasted programme. Each sonata benefits from Angela Hewitt's beautifully clean-cut pianistic commant, in which every score marking is placed within a precisely articulated... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Every bit as intellectually lucid, technically secure and focussed, as her Bach … this exhilarating clarity of thought is matched by her clean incisive sound (well caught by the recording), and... — BBC Music Magazine More…

...the spotlight is on the Moonlight, and Hewitt's performance is totally riveting. Adopting a flowing yet sustained tempo for the opening movement, she creates a beautifully veiled and hypnotic... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Angela Hewitt’s latest Beethoven recording comes with her customary intelligence and scrupulous attention to detail…her gently trotting minuet (its theme later cropped up in Beethoven’s popular... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Hewitt likes to guide her listener, demonstrating this point and that, which can distract… As you might expect, her way with the fingery textures of the first movement [of the Waldstein] is dexterous... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

As we would expect from Angela Hewitt, there’s much thoughtful and deeply-felt playing here. Hewitt is particularly successful in Beethoven’s slow movements. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…