Angela Hewitt plays Bach

Angela Hewitt CC OBE (piano)

Angela Hewitt occupies a unique position among today’s leading pianists. With a wide-ranging repertoire and frequent appearances in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, Americas and Asia, she is also an award-winning recording artist whose performances of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters. In 2020 she received the City of Leipzig Bach Medal.

In this special evening, Angela performs a selection from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, a monumental work often dubbed the 'Old Testament' of piano literature.  She pairs these preludes and fugues with Bach's epic and fiendishly virtuosic Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903.

This performance is generously sponsored by:-

Professor Rebecca Bailey-Harris
Michael Conlon KC
Michael Howard KC
Terence Mowschenson KC
Fergus Randoph KC
James Rivett KC
Jack Rivett
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Jan & Daniel Toledano
Alisdair Aird & Helena Wiesner
James Williams

Programme
Preludes and Fugues from J.S. Bach (1685-1750): The Well-Tempered Clavier, books 1 and 2:
C major from Book I
C minor from Book II
C-sharp major from Book I
C-sharp minor from Book 2
D major from Book I
D minor from Book II
E-flat major from Book I
D-sharp minor from Book II
E major from Book I
E minor from Book II
F major from Book I
F minor from Book II

J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV 903

There is no interval and the concert should finish at approx. 2045.