Angela Hewitt – review

St George's, BristolThe programme with which Angela Hewitt has been touring in recent weeks would have deterred most pianists. A keyboard suite by Handel paired with Brahms' Op 24 Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel is already a grand statement. Prefacing that with a first-half of a Bach partita and Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op 35, made for a task best described as Promethean; Beethoven's theme comes from his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus, and he used it again for the finale of t...

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