Jeffrey Hall ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Has anyone seen a review of or heard Angela Hewitt's new recording of J.S.
>Bach's Goldberg Variations? It is now (April 11) available at Amazon.com
>and I assume else where.

I was expecting mine to appear in the Times-Colonist today but it seems to
have got lost.

In brief:  superb.  Slightly longer:  Hewitt steers a course between the
dessicated piano-as-harpsichord approach of Gould and the hyper-Romanticism
of (say) Nikolayevna.  The whole thing was recorded virtually in a single
take and all the repeats are taken (haven't I been through this already?)

Very fine indeed.

Deryk Barker
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