Jeanette wrote on 2005-10-15

Dear Ms. Hewitt I was first introduced to your music when i turned on the tv to CBC to watch the General Governor's Performing Arts AWards. I enjoy your playing tremendously and it was amazing to have the opportunity to hear you play live when you came to Vancouver this past April for a program of Bach and Mozart. It was especially fantastic because i was able to get a seat in the upper backstage and i clearly just saw how your hands move around the keyboard. Everytime i hear you play, it inspires me so much. It makes me want to get better at the piano! I actually saw you once before on the plane to London from Ottawa in July 2004 but at that time it seemed awkward to approach you but it was still an experience! I look forward to your next concert in Vancouver!

Gonçalo Pombeiro wrote on 2005-10-03

Dear Angela, You revealed me the beauty of the Goldberg Variations. Yes: before listening to your interpretation I didn´t like them! I don´t understand anything about music but I think you showed me the function of the bass so that it wasn´t an annoying sound anymore! Once understood its function I could also enjoy them played by Gustav Leonhardt. I´m going to see you in Porto next 23. Thanks, Gonçalo

tom wrote on 2005-10-02

awesome in madison tonight! didn't stay for "meet the artist" because I was thinking, how can she do that after that performance? also felt bad that we didn't fill the house for you

ernest pauwels wrote on 2005-09-26

dear Angela, recently bought the nocturnes and the Bach pianoconcertos. They are all marvellous. I do not have words for it. By the way , I am moving definitely to my house nearby Lucca in Tuscany. There is a lot of music to enjoy. Where is your Italian house? best wishes, ernest

Paul Thompson wrote on 2005-09-25

Hi and Thank You Angela.... I saw you perform Chopin's Concerto No. 1 last night in Calgary....It was absolutely the most beautiful performance I have ever had the pleasure to attend. Thank you for bringing tears to my eyes, and rekindling my passion for beautiful music, and extraordinary performance.... Paul Thompson

Frances and Gunars wrote on 2005-09-21

Dear Angela, It was a supernatural lift to hear you last night in Ottawa. Your energy is contagious! Your focus is amazing. I have been enjoying reading your website this morning. You have done well to keep all the entries up to date...and still practice, as you say. I read the comment about the taxi driver. Here's a comment that a taxi driver made to me in London Ontario when I told him you had agreed to be the Honorary Patron for Music for Young Children..."I have no idea what Music for Young Children is, but it must be a great program to have a world-renowned concert pianist want her name associated with it". So that taxi driver did know you. Hurray! Your upcoming concert schedule is amazing. We wish you all good energy and positive times...healthy too. Frances and Gunars Balodis Music for Young Children www.myc.com frances@myc.com

sylvie wrote on 2005-09-20

i would like to know where i can find the piano arrangements for bwv 641, 614, 622, 643,22 and 127 I went to archambault music in montreal and they don´t have them . thank you and congratulations Pour l´excellence de votre carriere.

Cathy Langill wrote on 2005-09-17

Hello Angela! Thank you so much for creating the amazing Trasimeno Music Festival! I had a wonderful time - music that felt so powerfully personal, cameraderie among concert goers, truly gala dinners with new friends and the comfortable, exotic setting combined to make me feel part of the festival rather than an observer. I will never forget the feeling of sitting in the cool evening breeze, enjoying wonderful music playing just a few metres away; and being able to glance up at any time to the starry night sky. What an incredible luxury! (Though I’m still not sure - how could it possibly be a summer evening if there are no mosquitos? Very confusing for an under-travelled Canadian!) The Trasimeno Festival was an amazing experience Angela so thanks and congratulations! Hopefully you have taken time to bask in the glory of such success! It still seems impossible to have been in such a beautiful place; able to enjoy boat rides to the villages along the lakeshore, walk among the lines of olive trees or along forest ridges (even meeting a wild goat - it was huge!) and tour lovely hill towns with their casual scatterings of ancient neighborhoods, castles and churches. Possibilities for the daytime tours seemed endless - always more to explore - always more gelato! It all seems a unreal as I look back on it. It is strange to write all this but I sometimes try to picture how it compares with your experience of that week. ‘Guess you didn’t have much time for contemplating the wonders of olive trees! I hope you are well, happy and content so you can be thoroughly thrilled with these “other-worldly” projects you set up for yourself! Like the taxi driver said: “sounds relaxin’ !’’ Sincerely, Cathy

Tom Dye wrote on 2005-08-20

Aloha Angela, Your Bach keyboard concertos with the Australian Chamber Orchestra are magical. As a long time fan, I thought I was beginning to understand the scope of Bach's genius. Your recordings have laid that conceit to rest. What wonderful work! Tom Dye Honolulu

Ashley Armstrong wrote on 2005-08-17

Hi Angela, I usually start the day with one of your Bach recordings, the perfect way to spend a few precious moments before the start of the working day. I am looking forward enormously to the Bach Keyboard Concertos. I guess this just brings to an end the Bach marathon. I have just about all of them, and they are seldom far from my CD player. I have been wondering if there is any possibility of you recording any (or even all 555 of them!) of the Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas. Having enjoyed your Couperin recordings so much, and being particularly fond of Scarlatti's little gems, I couldn't help thinking that if anyone was going to record them on piano, it should be you. It would be a substantial undertaking, I know, but wow, what a prospect for fans. I would be interested to learn of your views on the Scarlatti sonatas. Personally I find them completely irresistable. I particularly enjoy the fact that you write your own booklet notes. How did this come about? They are so detailed and informative, and very well written too, I might add. Any chance of Hyperion letting you put them on your website as a series of collected articles? Finally, I hope to be able to see and hear you perform live at some time. I understand you prefer Fazioli pianos. Well the concert hall here in Leicester (De Montfort Hall) took delivery of a new Fazioli last year, and having heard it on a number of ocassions already since then, it sounds glorious. Any chance of a concert here? To hear you perform the Goldbergs and I could die a very happy man! My very best wishes to you for the future, and heartfelt thanks for the music you make, Ashley

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