Bach Arrangements: Angela Hewitt
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Bach Arrangements: Angela Hewitt on 180g LP from Hyperion
One of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt appears in recitals and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. She is especially renowned for her recordings of all the major keyboard works of Bach, described as “one of the record glories of our age.” In 2020, she was presented with the City of Leipzig Bach Medal, a huge honor that for the first time in its seventeen-year history was awarded to a woman. Angela was awarded an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honors and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2015. In 2018, Canada further honored her with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. From 2016 until 2020, Angela Hewitt presented the ‘Bach Odyssey,’ an ambitious and exciting overview of the complete keyboard works of J.S. Bach in twelve recitals over four years, in venues worldwide including London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Kioi Hall and New York’s 92nd Street Y. Pressed on 180g vinyl.
Track Listing
Side A:
- Bach : Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29: I. Sinfonia (Arr. Kempff for Piano)
- Bach : Flute Sonata in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031: II. Siciliano (Arr. Kempff for Piano)
- Bach : Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Arr. Kempff for Piano)
- Bach : Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (Arr. Kempff for Piano)
- Bach : Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208 'Hunting Cantata' : X. Sheep May Safely Graz
- Bach : Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 (Arr. Hewitt for Piano)
- Bach : Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Arr. Hess for Piano)
Side B:
- Bach : Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 (Arr. Walton for Piano)
- Bach : Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV 648 (Arr. Ireland for Piano)
- Bach : O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV 622 (Arr. Howells for Piano)
- Bach : Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22: V. Chorale. Sanctify Us By Thy Goodness (Arr. Cohen for Piano)
- Bach : Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127: III. Aria. Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen
- Bach : Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 (Arr. Albert for Piano)





