When the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt asserts that her journey with Bach began when she was born, if not before, she is hardly exaggerating. As a child, she remembers being thrilled to hear him perform Bach’s awesome organ works. He even made an arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor for their musical family to play at two pianos (eight hands). “I responded to the rhythm in the music,” she said in a 2017 interview with The Guardian. She has always made of point of bringing out the dance rhythms in Bach’s music, she explained.

Source: New York Times November 03, 2019 18:00 UTC