Angela Hewitt playing in Turangalîla-symphonie

[Bryn]

Well, did anyone here listen this afternoon, or catch (or intend to catch) it via the iPlayer? I've not listened yet, but it looks very enticing.

[Mahlerei]

Thanks for the heads up, Bryn.

[Nick Armstrong]

Heard the last half:

The recording really brought out the Ondes, rather as I like - a positive presence, rather than just a background colour

[Barbirollians]

That is a bit of a departure ! What next someone discovers a recording of Rosalyn Tureck playing Moskowski ? or Cziffra playing Buxtehude.

[Alison]

One of my first Messiaen piano discs was an Angela Hewitt recital on Hyperion.

Her Beethoven Sonata cycle seems to have dried up.

[Chris Newman]

The performance as a whole seemed tentative to me. The Piano and Ondes Martinot were clear and expressive but the recessed orchestral sound and generally slow tempi (rather surprisingly) adopted by Kent Nagano made it unusally mechanical and sombre. Some much loved passages swam in and out of focus.

I was disappointed especially after recently listening to Charles Groves's wonderful Prom performance on fellow-boarder Clive Heath's Website http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/tapes.php and a stonkingly grand performance a couple of years back by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia at Basingstoke Anvil.