Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Paul Lewis
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMC902136/37
Release: 2012
Size: 1.85 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Fantasie in C major, D760 ‘Wanderer’
01. I. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Presto
04. IV. Allegro
4 Impromptus, D935
05. I. Allegro moderato (F Minor)
06. II. Allegretto. Trio (A flat Major )
07. III. Thema Andante. Variations I-V. Più lento (B flat Major)
08. IV. Allegro scherzando (F Minor )
CD 02
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D845
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Andante poco mosso
03. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio. Un poco più lento
04. IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace
Moments Musicaux, D780, Op. 94
05. I. Moderato
06. II. Andantino
07. III. Allegretto moderato
08. IV. Moderato
09. V. Allegro vivace
10. VI. Allegretto. Trio
11. Allegretto in C minor, D915
Paul Lewis is today regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. Having won the most coveted prizes of the great classical institutions for both his concert career and his recordings on harmonia mundi (Diapason d’Or of the year 2002, 25th Premio Internationale Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and three Gramophone Awards including Recording of the Year in 2008), he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Southampton in 2009. He is also the first pianist in the history of the BBC Proms to have played the complete Beethoven concertos in a single season (2010).
He appears as a guest in the most prestigious concert halls and with the foremost orchestras and enjoys a privileged relationship with the Wigmore Hall, where he has performed more than 50 times. Early in 2011, Paul Lewis embarked on a two-year concert tour devoted to the works written by Schubert in the last six years of his life. When this is completed, he will have played in London, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Bologna, Florence and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.