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\"Angela
Angela Hewitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The legendary Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has embarked on a global Bach odyssey, touring the world with the composer\u2019s complete solo keyboard works, and Australia is on her list of destinations.<\/p>\n

Sydney fans will be able to hear Angela Hewitt in May during her national tour for Musica Viva. Her vast recording catalogue spanning 20 years includes every keyboard work by Bach. In two brilliant programs, she pairs Bach with Beethoven, Ravel, Scarlatti and Chabrier, throwing new light onto her unparalleled understanding of this music. She will also mentor talented young students at special masterclasses in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.<\/p>\n

Hewitt came to note when she won the Toronto International Bach Competition in 1985. In 2015 she was inducted into Gramophone Magazine\u2019s \u2018Hall of Fame\u2019 \u2013 a tribute she adds to an OBE in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours, a Companion of the Order of Canada, seven honorary doctorates, a visiting fellowship at Cambridge and many other prestigious accolades. Her award-winning cycle of Bach keyboard works has been described as \u2018one of the record glories of our age\u2019 by The Sunday Times, and her new, second recording of the Goldberg Variations is expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n

Hewitt’s father was a church organist in Ottawa, so she was steeped in music as a child. \u201cTo play Bach well, you don\u2019t have to be a believer \u2013 but I think you must have knowledge of polyphony and realise that for Bach, music was an expression of his faith. I was lucky that I grew up listening to Bach from the beginning\u201d she reflects.<\/p>\n

Dance was another key influence. \u201cFrom my earliest years, music and dance were inseparable,\u201d she reveals. \u201cI was always prancing around my bedroom, whether it was to Bach or Ravel \u2013 it was a natural way of expressing the music.”<\/p>\n

For the first of her 2017 tour programs, the dancing counterpoint of Bach\u2019s partitas connects with Scarlatti\u2019s delicate sonatas and the Baroque inspirations behind the exquisite French works of Ravel and Chabrier. \u201cThe Bach partitas are full of dance rhythms, and the Chabrier piece I\u2019m playing is the Bourr\u00e9e fantasque<\/em>, in which you can almost hear the clogs of the Auvergne rustic dancers,\u201d says Hewitt. The breathtakingly tricky toccata which concludes Ravel\u2019s Sonatine<\/em> requires a pianist of tremendous ability \u2013 the composer himself was too afraid to record it!<\/p>\n

The second program explores the musical lineage between teachers and students. \u201cBeethoven could apparently play all of the Well-Tempered Clavier by the age of eleven,\u201d Hewitt says. \u201cWhen you put his music alongside Bach\u2019s you can hear those contrapuntal roots coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more about theSydney masterclass on 26 May, click here.<\/a> Members of the public are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

The programme: Programme 1, May 8:<\/p>\n

JS BACH Partita no 1 in B-flat major, BWV825 \/\u00a0Partita no 4 in D major, BWV828
\nSCARLATTI A\u00a0Sonata in D major, K491\/\u00a0Sonata in D major, K492\/\u00a0Sonata in B major, K377\/\u00a0Sonata in E major K380\/\u00a0Sonata in A major, K24
\nRAVEL Sonatine
\nCHABRIER Bourr\u00e9e fantasque e<\/p>\n

Programme 2, May 27:<\/p>\n

JS BACH Partita no 2 in C minor, BWV826\/\u00a0Partita no 4 in D major, BWV828
\nBEETHOVEN Sonata in F minor, op 2 no 1\/\u00a0Sonata in C-sharp minor, op 27 no 2 \u2018Moonlight\u2019<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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