[NEW TO CATALOG] 🎹❤️ Since it's International Piano Day and we're still in our Bach Week, we thought we'd celebrate with Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt's astounding rendition of Bach's Goldberg Variations! Last year she became the first woman to be awarded the Leipzig Bach Medal, so you're in good hands! 🎹❤️ https://cutt.ly/bxG4kXz | medici.tv

💪 [Motivation Tuesday] It's hard not to mention Angela Hewitt when we speak of Bach nowadays: she's one of the hardest working pianists in the business who traveled to Leipzig in the St. Thomas Church where Bach once worked and is now buried, and performed Goldberg Variations 🎹, which, according to her own words, is one of the few works that "have the power to elevate us to such sublime grounds". 😮 https://cutt.ly/pQUgvnC | medici.tv

🤓🎹 Give your brain a boost this Tuesday with Angela Hewitt's sterling rendition of Bach's Goldberg Variations—performed at the composer's final resting place in Leipzig. Bach composed a different canon every third variation, including the seemingly impossible canon after the 9th! This clip of Variation 27 is for all you music lovers! 🤓🎹 https://cutt.ly/q4Y3Yid | medici.tv

AWARD CEREMONY FOR ANGELA HEWITT 🇬🇧 Immediately after her breathtaking performance of Goldberg Variations in St. Thomas Church, Angela Hewitt was awarded with the Bach Medal of the city of Leipzig 2020 for her livelong dedication to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Here you can watch how Skadi Jennicke, Deputy Mayor for Cultural Affairs, and Bachfest Artistic Director Michael Maul presented her with the medal - and how Angela Hewitt movingly replied. Thank you, Angela, for proving the music