Angela Grace

'Endless hours of joy and wonder' is how Angela Hewitt sums up the insights and rewards of playing and recording Mozart's piano sonatas, and a similar experience awaits listeners to these remarkable accounts, the first release in a complete cycle. "The hallmarks of Hewitt's artistry are in evidence: fingerwork of nimble grace and steely strength; clarity of line; understated pedalling."

Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has devoted many creative energies to Bach, and it shows in this reading of Debussy favorites (and a few less common works): Hewitt's is a rather precise and tempo-consistent Debussy, light on the atmospherics but with technical agility to spare. What you'll think of this may well depend on how you see the nature of Debussy's break with the French Romantic tradition: did it involve a dryness of expression, or is the usual hazy vision the right one?

After three decades of Carmen in opéra comique-style, each one offering its own brand of authenticity, here we are back in the 19th century with the old grand opera version, with the Guiraud recitatives, tacked on after Bizet’s death. This was the way Carmen was usually performed until the 1950s, when producers and scholars started to reconsider the original.

Revivre l’Histoire, sur les traces de Cléopâtre.
Peu de femmes peuvent se vanter d’avoir autant marqué les esprits que Cléopâtre. La dernière reine d’Égypte antique a séduit les puissants mais a surtout fait de son nom un symbole de puissance. Alberto Angela, vulgarisateur de génie, nous entraîne sur les pas de cette femme d’exception. Dans un monde antique dominé par les hommes, elle a permis au royaume d’Égypte de connaître une expansion fulgurante. …