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Weekend Concert Series

Angela Hewitt, piano

Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722)

     Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
     Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
     Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 848
     Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849
     Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850
     Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851

Robert Schumann - Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11 (1836)
Felix Mendelssohn - Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op. 35, No. 1 (1837)
Samuel Barber - Fugue from Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26 (1949)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op. 52, No. 18 (1952)

One of the world’s foremost piano interpreters of Bach’s music, Angela Hewitt comes to the Gardner Museum with a program with Bach at its heart. Hewitt has matched preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier with contrapuntal essays from Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Barber that pay homage to the master. Schumann’s splendid first sonata, dedicated to his 17-year-old future wife Clara Wieck, anchors the balance of the program.

Photo by Richard Termine

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This program is performed in memory of Willona Sinclair.

Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.