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
December 2022
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
March 2021
Home listening
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
March 2017
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
May 2016
Facing the music
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
April 2016
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1; Ballades Op 10 review – Lewis balances muscle and vulnerability
January 2016
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
June 2015
Paul Lewis review – a display of pianistic depth
Few keyboard works repay repeated listening more than Beethoven’s last piano sonatas
April 2015
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
December 2014
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
October 2013
Q&A: Alabama's 'pitchfork people' v the Republican old guard
Britten Sinfonia/Lewis – review
December 2012
Imogen Cooper/Paul Lewis – review
These expert Schubertians wisely employed two pianos, capturing pain and ecstasy in music for four hands, writes Rian Evans
November 2012
Paul Lewis – review
Lewis's Schubert journey has reached the last three sonatas – and this fully engaged recital suggests it has been worth the wait, writes Martin Kettle
November 2011
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894; Impromptus D899; Klavierstücke D946
Tactful, well-played and nuanced Schubert, as Paul Lewis's legions of fans will expect. Full of clarity and attention to detail, writes Andrew Clements
October 2011
The Guardian Classical Music podcast
Classical music podcast: Paul Lewis plays Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke D946
The Guardian Classical Music podcast
Classical music podcast: Paul Lewis plays Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke D946
The Guardian Classical Music podcast
Classical music podcast: Paul Lewis introduces Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke D946
Paul Lewis: artist biography
February 2011
Paul Lewis – review
Lewis's Schubert project began with a fresh, understated approach that let the infinite succession of melody unfold naturally, writes Rian Evans
