Latest News: Classical, Paul Lewis (Piano)
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays Brahms 21st January 2022The British pianist's interpretations of the final four sets of solo piano works are a revelation, capturing all of the poetry and drama of the music and often emphasising its kinship with Debussy and Rachmaninov.
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Recording of the Week,
French Piano Duets from Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne 12th March 2021In a true meeting of musical minds, the two superb pianists team up once again for a delectable programme of miniatures by Fauré, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays Beethoven's Bagatelles 10th July 2020The British pianist's survey of Beethoven's complete output in the genre (plus the Fantasia Op. 77 and three opus-less Klavierstücke) radiates wit, warmth and wisdom.
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Interview,
Paul Lewis on Beethoven 10th July 2020The British pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Bagatelles (out today on Harmonia Mundi), and about the composer's often 'uncompromisingly uncomfortable' writing for the piano.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays early Schubert and Weber 15th February 2019The British pianist radiates sympathy and imagination in two piano sonatas from the 1810s by young composers who both died before their fortieth birthdays.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis performs piano sonatas by Haydn 6th April 2018James listens to the first instalment in a survey of Haydn's piano sonatas by Paul Lewis.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis performs Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 15th April 2016James enjoys Paul Lewis's take on Brahms's concerto, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding.
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Interview,
A trip to the gallery with Paul Lewis. 15th January 2015Katherine talks to the British pianist about his new recording of Mussorgsky and Schumann, out this week on Harmonia Mundi.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays Schubert Piano Sonatas 12th May 2014James enjoys Paul Lewis's latest recording of Schubert - the turbulent piano sonatas written towards the end of his life.
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Recording of the Week,
Sublime Schubert from Paul Lewis 31st October 2011Following his ten-year immersion in Beethoven and critically-acclaimed recordings of Schubert’s three great song-cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, the British pianist brings unrivalled poise and intimacy to the Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894 and the Impromptus D899.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert's Schwanengesang from Padmore and Lewis 12th September 2011Padmore’s bright, light tenor is often hauntingly beautiful in Schubert’s ‘swan-song’, combining with Lewis’s imaginative and insightful playing in a performance of great musical integrity which is a worthy successor to their superb Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin.
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Recording of the Week,
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations from Paul Lewis 30th May 2011Following his masterly traversals of the complete piano concertos and sonatas, the British pianist imbues the Diabelli Variations with humour, exuberance and poetic beauty in a recording which stands comparison with his mentor Alfred Brendel.
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Recording of the Week,
Winterreise from Padmore and Lewis 19th October 2009The British pianist and tenor launch a series of Schubert song-cycles with a spellbinding account of the late, great ‘Winter Journey’ which strikes Chris as ‘music-making of the absolute highest order’.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis's Beethoven 7th April 2008Ahead of the release of the final instalment of his acclaimed cycle on Harmonia Mundi, Chris offers an overview of the Liverpool-born pianist’s ‘utterly compelling’ traversal of the complete sonatas.