Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis review – Schubert’s last works given a masterful treatment

Pianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s death

Andrew Clements

20, Mar, 2024 @11:42 AM

Paul Lewis review – Schubert begins with a stutter and ends with conviction

A rogue hearing aid forced a restart to the pianist’s survey of Schubert sonatas, but once things settled, Lewis confirmed what a superlative interpreter he is of these works

Andrew Clements

01, Dec, 2022 @1:28 PM

Classical home listening: the fruits of lockdown

Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne work as one on a set of French piano works recorded last March, while a postponed April wedding sparked Isolation Songs

Fiona Maddocks

13, Mar, 2021 @12:00 PM

Paul Lewis review – intensity, elegance and wit from Weber to the Minute Waltz

Lewis combined muscularity, tenderness and intelligence with unshowy dexterity to create interpretations of great insight and power

Tim Ashley

03, Mar, 2017 @12:05 PM

Facing the music: Paul Lewis

The pianist fancies learning the bagpipes, decries his own composing skills and and applauds Ligeti’s, and is very clear that he will never, ever, be found in a karaoke bar

09, May, 2016 @6:00 AM

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1; Ballades Op 10 review – Lewis balances muscle and vulnerability

Kate Molleson

07, Apr, 2016 @2:00 PM

Mark Padmore/Paul Lewis review – passion and intoxication let rip

This lieder recital of Heine and Goethe set to Schumann and Schubert allowed the tenor and pianist to surge with and cede to the poets’ bliss and longing

Rian Evans

10, Jan, 2016 @3:48 PM

Paul Lewis review – a display of pianistic depth

Few keyboard works repay repeated listening more than Beethoven’s last piano sonatas

Martin Kettle

12, Jun, 2015 @1:39 PM

Allan Clayton and Paul Lewis review – Schubert given real edge

The tenor and pianist combined to moody effect for a Schubert song cycle that grew in power as the recital progressed

Andrew Clements

30, Apr, 2015 @10:56 AM

Paul Lewis and friends review – the delight of a Viennese summer

The quality of Lewis’s musical collaborators – who included the violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky as a stand-in – was a tribute to his Christmas card list, writes Rian Evans

Rian Evans

17, Dec, 2014 @5:37 PM

Q&A: Alabama's 'pitchfork people' v the Republican old guard

Dean Young and Bradley Byrne are contesting the Republican primary for a House seat in Alabama. They took our questions

Paul Lewis

30, Oct, 2013 @6:28 PM

Britten Sinfonia/Lewis – review

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12 produced sparks of brilliance from Paul Lewis, though the hall's vibrant acoustic proved more suited to Stravinsky, writes Erica Jeal

Erica Jeal

13, Oct, 2013 @11:48 AM