Music review: Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra & Angela Hewitt, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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Seldom can Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto have sounded so fleet-footed, light, airy and – well, human. Yes, it’s a grand, imposing utterance, but in the hands of Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt – on stage with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra for the second of the Usher Hall’s Sunday Classics – it was refreshingly brisk, tender, even vulnerable – a world away from the pompous swagger that the piece often elicits.