Angela Hewitt: My battle with Bach

Pianist Angela Hewitt has played Bach everywhere from Beijing to Bogotá. But she always avoided his final work – thinking it was too tough. She relives how she overcame fear and major surgery to love The Art of FugueIn August 2007, I set off on a 14-month recital tour performing Johann Sebastian Bach's masterpiece The Well-Tempered Clavier to audiences in 25 countries around the world. It took a lot of stamina – not just physically getting myself from one place to the next, but also goin...

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