Angela Hewitt has been universally lauded for her five previous albums of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Her pin-sharp and tastefully fluent approach is now applied to five more works spanning the composer’s career. This album culminates with the masterly Les adieux, one of Beethoven's most challenging sonatas because of the mature emotions that must be conveyed throughout it. Hewitt delivers throughout and her detailed and helpful sleeve notes demonstrate her superb attention to the details of every moment of each of these five works, and the formidable intelligence with which she tackles them.

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