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Article: Angela Hewitt at Zankel Hall, New York.(performance of the pianist)(Concert Review)
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- New Criterion
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- June 1, 2005
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One of the most enjoyable evenings I have spent in this concert season was at the pianist Angela Hewitt's performance at Zankel Hall on April 7. Hewitt, a Canadian who has succeeded her countryman Glenn Gould as a leading performer of Bach on the piano, devoted the first half of her program to the mighty Johann Sebastian (the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the French Overture), but it became clear that her chief programmatic idea was to explore dance rhythms in music, both in the second Bach piece and in the second half: a suite (Treizieme Ordre) by the little-programmed French composer Francois Couperin, and Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin.
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