Angela Hewitt: Bach, Brahms, And Scarlatti
Angela Hewitt returns to EMV with Scarlatti, Bach and Brahms. Ms. Hewitt has become one of Bach’s foremost interpreters of our time
Date/Time: Mar 12 2023, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | Event calendar6265 Crescent Rd.
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Cost: $36.00
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In her own words “Bach’s music cries out for a keyboard instrument that imitates the human voice. These days, you don’t hear so much discussion (about whether to play Bach on the piano), and there are as many ways of Bach on the piano as there are pianists. What I try to do is not think of it so much as keyboard music but as music that imitates the voice or the orchestra. It’s not piano music in the way Brahms or Chopin is piano music.”
Ms. Hewitt will be playing Bach’s English Suite No. 6 in D minor, preceded by a selection of Scarlatti sonatas and followed by Brahms’ Sonata in F minor Op.5. After her recent performance at Wigmore Hall, Martin Kettle from The Guardian commented “The beautifully sustained andante, which seems to slip in and out of the harmonic world of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata, was the highlight of the evening. Truly a woman who can play Brahms, too.”
This concert is generously supported by Eric Wyness and Mark De Silva.
PROGRAMME
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Kk 1 in D minor
Kk 446 in F major
Kk 531 in E major
Kk 420 in C major
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
English Suite No. 6 in D minor
Interval
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Sonata in F minor Op. 5
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