Francois Couperin: Klavierwerke Vol.2 auf Super Audio CD

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Angela Hewitt's hugely successful first volume of François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin presented works from Books II and III of the cycle. Here we have a further twenty-one pieces, this time from Book IV. Critical acclaim for the first volume (Hyperion CDA67440) surely makes this new disc (which is available in both standard CD and also multi-channel surround-sound hybrid SACD formats) a self-recommending classic.

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»Angela Hewitt is a remarkable musician with a highly refined sensibility. She makes use of the best qualities of the piano without stepping out of stylistic bounds … Such intelligent musicianship« (American Record Guide)

»Wit, tenderness, and sensibility – these essential elements of the Couperin style Hewitt provides with grace and scholarly affection, her Steinway piano singing in glorious Technicolor« (Audiophile Audition)

»For someone of Angela Hewitt's pulling power to invite her fans so enticingly down so unfashionable a path – a poncy ancien régime twiddler? And on the piano! – is brave; and it's right« (BBC Music Magazine)

»Hewitt's playing is equally representative of her general approach to his music. Her touch is amazingly light, incredibly crisp and alert to the possibilities afforded by the piano« (Gramophone)

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FonoForum 10/04: »Wie bei ihrer ersten Couperin-CD versteht es die Pianistin meisterhaft, die 20 galanten Cembalo-Miniaturen stilsicher auf dem Klavier zu entfalten.​ Die hinreißenden Verzierraffinessen der Kanadierin, ihre Fähigkeit, mit warmem, farbenreichem und natürlich-fließendem Spiel die elegische Eleganz der Musik Couperins zugleich fern gerückt und doch lebendig vorzutragen, machen die Aufnahme zu einer Lehrstunde barocker Interpretationskunst auf dem Flügel.​«