Gasthaus Angela

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway. Inspector Wade of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case, and he begins to suspect that the Shark is tied in with a smuggling ring the authorities believe is run out of a dive on the Thames waterfront called The Mekka.

A score illuminated by the magic of instrumental timbres, rich in rhythmic invention and harmonic spells. Since Hänsel and Gretel or L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, we have perhaps not adorned the world of childhood with a more attractive garment.
Mermaids, fairies, pirates, Indians, wild beasts; family disputes, loss of children; nostalgia for looking back at one's past, etc. From reflections on eternal childhood to the most spectacular battles, may this opera – like James Matthew Barrie's tale – open up to all levels of reading.

"Listening to Angela Hewitt's latest thoughts on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier alongside her late-1990s Hyperion cycle, it appears that her interpretations haven't changed so much as evolved, intensfied and, most important, internalised …

The King of Instruments - A Parade of Music and Verse für Orgel & Sprecher; Orgelsymphonie für Orgel & Percussion; Pneuma; In Memoriam; Flights of Fancy; Auszüge aus den Orgelbüchern III Vol. 1 & 2; Sweet Sixteenths; Chasm; Agnus Dei für Sopran & Orgel; Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland .

The King of Instruments - A Parade of Music and Verse für Orgel & Sprecher; Orgelsymphonie für Orgel & Percussion; Pneuma; In Memoriam; Flights of Fancy; Auszüge aus den Orgelbüchern III Vol. 1 & 2; Sweet Sixteenths; Chasm; Agnus Dei für Sopran & Orgel; Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.

The great ‘Eroica’ variations are the centrepiece of an album which, ending with two amusingly anglophile tributes, contains some surprisingly under-appreciated Beethoven.