The best of Paul Lewis

A selection of his finest recordings

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Lewis’s set of the 32 sonatas attracted widespread acclaim, many calling it a ‘benchmark’. Harmonia Mundi HMX290190211

Beethoven

Piano Concertos ‘These accounts score strongly on extroversion, combativeness… and even mischief.’ Harmonia Mundi HMC902053/55

Beethoven

Diabelli Variations ‘Lewis has the full measure of the work’s epic scale, creating a real sense of cumulative growth as he navigates us through its extraordinary narrative.’ Harmonia Mundi HMC902071

Schubert Piano Sonatas

D840, 850, 894 & Impromptus D899 ‘Model accounts in which Lewis, clearly a modest man, is intent on keeping himself out of the picture.’ Harmonia Mundi HMC902115/16

Schubert The Late Sonatas

‘It goes withouth saying that this is piano playing of the highest calibre, to which the recorded sound does full justice.’ Harmonia Mundi HMC902165/66

Schubert

Piano Sonata D845, Wandererfantasie & Impromptus D935

‘If one were ever tempted to say a recording was “definitive”, this is the time.’ Harmonia Mundi HMC902136/37