{"id":2533,"date":"2021-10-15T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/koncerty\/angela-hewitt\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:55:37","slug":"angela-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/angela-hewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"text-centered bg-wide bg-white\">\n    <div class=\"container container-max-\">\n        <div class=\"text-centered__wrapper\">\n            <p>Instead of Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires, Canadian pianist <strong>Angela Hewitt<\/strong> will perform at the Rudolfinum on November 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets remain valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-image text-image--left\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"text-image__wrapper text-image__wrapper--left\">\n                            <div class=\"text-image__content\">\n                    <h2><strong>Angela Hewitt<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Never since the Canadian Glenn Gould has there been an artist who has placed Bach interpretations on the modern concert piano at the centre of their work as much as Gould\u2019s compatriot, <strong>Angela Hewitt<\/strong>. For her multifaceted and long-standing commitment to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, for her genuine impact as a Bach ambassador all over the world, and her benchmark Bach interpretations on the concert grand piano, she became the recipient of the 2020 City of Leipzig Bach Medal, a prestigious distinction bestowed upon her as the first woman to be awarded this prize in its 17-year history.<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"text-image__image-wrapper\">\n                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Angela-Hewitt-credit-Keith-Saunders.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"text-image__image\">\n                          <div class=\"image-caption image-caption--dark text-image__image-caption image-caption--below\">\n    <span class=\"image-caption__text\">\n        Angela Hewitt\nLondon 2016    <\/span>\n  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-image text-image--right\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"text-image__wrapper text-image__wrapper--right\">\n                            <div class=\"text-image__content\">\n                    <p>\u201c<em>Hewitt and Bach are clearly a match made in heaven<\/em>,\u201d concludes Gavin Dixon on theartsdesk.com in his review of her performance of two <em>English Suites<\/em> in London\u2019s Wigmore Hall in October 2019. \u201c<em>My journey with Bach began from the day I was born, if not before<\/em>,\u201d the pianist tells us on her website. Her father was music director and organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa and Angela was surrounded by Bach\u2019s music her whole life.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Hewitt has demonstrated to her listeners that playing Bach on the modern grand piano is just as legitimate as performing the music on a period keyboard instrument in a historically informed interpretation. And she had the fortitude to go further. If Bach, why not also Couperin on the modern piano? Purists may have been alarmed but she won her case. Her first of three albums of\u00a0Couperin dance suites from the collection <em>Pi\u00e8ces de clavecin<\/em> (Hyperion, 2002) became a bestseller. \u201c<em>By turning her attention to these works, Angela Hewitt may succeed in reviving and popularising Couperin\u2019s enchanting music as no modern-day harpsichordist has been able to do<\/em>\u201d (<em>Gramophone <\/em>magazine). Baroque music is a mainstay of her broad repertoire, which incorporates key piano literature dating from the 17<sup>th<\/sup> to the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. She is currently completing her next recording project \u2013 a sixteen-year endeavour overall involving recordings of all 32 Beethoven sonatas; the final CD in the cycle (Opp. 106 and 111) will be released on the Hyperion label in 2022. Her latest album <em>Love Songs<\/em>, a product of the lockdown featuring piano arrangements of some of the best known love songs spanning the centuries, became a huge hit in Great Britain.<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"text-image__image-wrapper\">\n                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Angela-Hewitt-High-Res-9-credit-Bernd-Eberle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"text-image__image\">\n                                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2531,"template":"","event_category":[16],"event_type":[15],"class_list":["post-2533","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-firkusny-en","event_type-prague-spring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}