[著名演奏家] 加拿大女鋼琴家：Angela Hewitt

J. S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier 2 : Prelude f#minor


自從Angela Hewitt在加拿大國際巴赫鋼琴大賽中獲勝，她就被認為是巴赫音樂的權威鋼琴家。Angela Hewitt從三歲開始學習鋼琴，九歲在多倫多皇家音樂會堂首次登台演奏。同時她也學習小提琴、直笛、聲樂以及古典芭蕾，但是對鋼琴的狂熱興趣使她最終選擇了這項樂器。在這近二十年裏，Angela Hewitt在世界各地擁有無數樂迷，並享有極高的聲譽。她的樂思精致細膩，技巧在各個曲目皆遊刃有餘，極受樂評激賞。無疑地，她是巴赫的專家，但她同時也專精於拉威爾及梅西安音樂裏那有力的旋律。短短數年內，她在Hyperin錄製了巴赫幾乎所有的鋼琴作品。(轉)




Angela Hewitt, OC, OBE (born July 26, 1958) is a Canadian classical pianist sometimes regarded as one of the world's foremost exponents of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano. She also holds British nationality through her father, Godfrey, who was the cathedral organist in Ottawa, Ontario

Angela Hewitt began her piano studies at age 3, performed in public at 4, and won her first music scholarship at 5. In addition to the piano, she studied violin, recorder and ballet (at Mme. Toumine's school in Ottawa). Her first recital was in The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at the age of 9. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory from 1964 to 1973. She then went on to study with the French pianist, Jean-Paul Sévilla at the University of Ottawa. She was placed first in the Gian Battista Viotti competition in 1978 and won the Toronto International Bach piano competition in 1985.

Angela Hewitt has performed internationally as a soloist with renowned orchestras and has made many recordings. In 1994, the Hyperion record label signed her to record all the keyboard music of J. S. Bach, a project that was recently completed and spanned 14 discs. (Deutsche Grammophon had been given an opportunity to be involved in such a project, but after hearing her first disc recorded as part of her prize for the Toronto competition, they were not enthusiastic, saying there was no market for Bach on the piano.^[1])

Angela Hewitt has also made notable recordings of the works of some French composers — including François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Olivier Messiaen, as well as Emmanuel Chabrier and Maurice Ravel, both of whose piano works she recorded in complete cycles. These recordings have been well received.^{[citation needed]} She has also recorded a number of Beethoven piano sonatas, part of a projected complete cycle for the Hyperion label, and the Beethoven cello sonatas with the cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, also for Hyperion.

Hewitt recorded Bach's complete Well-Tempered Clavier in 1997-99 for Hyperion, and the set has often been recommended as a "reference" version.^{[citation needed]} Nonetheless, after she undertook a world tour from August 2007 to October 2008, during which she performed the Well-Tempered Clavier complete in one concert in 58 cities in 21 countries on six continents, she decided to re-record the entire work. She persuaded Hyperion to back it, and the new recording was made September 8-16, 2008 in the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin. Unlike the previous recording, the new one makes use of her favored custom-built Fazioli piano.

Angela Hewitt is the founder and artistic director of the Trasimeno Music Festival, held annually since 2005 in Magione, Italy.

Since 1985 Angela Hewitt has lived in London. She also has homes in Canada and Umbria, Italy. In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC). She was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006.(wiki)