Bach: The Six Partitas
Sometimes it helps not to specialize. As Angela Hewitt expands her  horizons beyond Bach, her Bach, paradoxically, has ripened tenfold, as revealed  in this magnificent set of partitas. One listens in vain for a single slip-up in timing  or voicing. Articulation is marvelously varied, but never for the sake of variety  itself. More to the point, the music's dancelike subtexts bring out a more deeply  felt, emotionally three-dimensional music-making than encountered in Hewitt's  previous Bach efforts. This gifted pianist has come into her own. Hear her.--Jed Distler