Couperin: Keyboard Music Vol.2

'Hewitt chooses to approach these works with a reverent bow both to the composer and the instrument that inspired him, never making excessive use of dynamics, and keeping the gestures in a deliberately narrow emotional scope. Her musicality is always present but never blatantly displayed, emotions kept in check with refined restraint. In this economy of means, she seems to mirror Couperin's writing itself' (Fanfare, USA)

"Her ornamentation is both crisply decorative and flexible and always inherent in the music's forward flow." Penguin Guide

'For someone of Angela Hewitt's pulling power to invite her fans so enticingly down so unfashionable a path - a poncy ancien régime twiddler? And on the piano! - is brave; and it's right' (BBC Music Magazine)

'In the expert hands of Angela Hewitt, François 'Le Grand' Couperin makes as easy a transition from harpsichord to piano as has Bach. The difference is that many people may - and should - now be listening to Couperin for the first time. Following the huge success of Hewitt's first volume of Couperin keyboard works [Hyperion CDA67440} - a selection from Books II and III of his Pieces de Clavecin, including the captivating 'Les Barricades Mystérieuses' - Hewitt now adds 21 more works from five 'Ordres' of Book IV, ranging from tranquil lyricism to full-blooded bragadoccio. Here is keyboard-playing of the highest order, in unfamiliar repertoire long due a sympathetic hearing.' (The Guardian)

Angela Hewitt's hugely successful first volume of François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin presented works from Books II and III of the cycle. Here we have a further twenty-one pieces, this time from Book IV.