New Angela Hewitt Bach Book published
(November 2010)
Leading Bach pianist Angela Hewitt has assembled a new book of music paying tribute to the ultimate Baroque master.Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce the publication of the Angela Hewitt Bach Book, a new Bach-themed piano album linked to a pair of concerts by Hewitt at the Wigmore Hall in London on 20 and 23 November.
The new Bach Book is a successor to Harriet Cohen’s dating from 1932, collecting arrangements from leading composers of her day which Cohen then toured in concert. Hewitt’s book includes two of the original arrangements – by Walton and Howells – together with her own transcriptions of three organ chorale preludes from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein and six new works commissioned by the Wigmore Hall from contemporary composers Brett Dean, Robin Holloway, Elena Kats-Chernin, Dominic Muldowney, Kurt Schwertsik and Yehudi Wyner.
Angela Hewitt describes how “it seemed a wonderful idea to ask composers of my time to write short pieces inspired somehow by Bach. I didn’t stipulate more than that, except that they shouldn’t be too long and that they could be either something totally new or else a transcription… Whereas Harriet Cohen’s Bach Book was very much a British affair, my own is distinctly international.”
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