Angela Hewitt on her new album, Love Songs
Friday, July 2, 2021
The pianist explores her latest release on Hyperion Records
This week's Podcast guest is pianist Angela Hewitt, who tells Editor Martin Cullingford about her beautiful new album 'Love Songs', transcriptions of songs by composers including Schumann, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Gluck, Grieg and De Falla - with arrangements by pianists and composers including Liszt, Godowsky, Grainger and Hewitt herself. The album is out today on the Hyperion label.
Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall, where having streamed more than 300 concerts over the past year, the venue's doors are once again open. See concert listings beneath the player below, and find out more at Wigmore Hall's website.
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Wigmore Hall concerts in the coming week - for full programme details visit Wigmore Hall's website
Saturday 3 July 7.30pm
Dunedin Consort
Bach and Buxtehude
Sunday 4 July
Louis Lortie piano; Hélène Mercier piano
11.30am: Mozart and Schubert
3pm: Debussy and Ravel
7.30pm: Rachmaninov and Stravinsky
Monday 5 July 1.00PM
Rachel Podger violin; Christopher Glynn fortepiano
Mozart
Wednesday 7 July 7.30pm
Doric String Quartet
Schubert
Thursday 8 July 7.30pm
Doric String Quartet
Schubert