Haydn - Piano Sonatas Hob.XVI: 32, 40, 49, 50
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM902371
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th March 2018
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About
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide, and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire. His numerous awards have included the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason D’or de l’Annee, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He holds honorary degrees from Liverpool, Edge Hill, and Southampton Universities, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
His multi-award winning discography for Harmonia Mundi includes the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, concertos, and the Diabelli Variations, Liszt’s B minor sonata and other late works, all of Schubert’s major piano works from the last six years of his life including the three song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, solo works by Schumann and Mussorgsky, and the Brahms D minor Piano Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.
Paul Lewis studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately with Alfred Brendel. He is co-Artistic Director of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival held in Buckinghamshire, UK, and the Leeds International Piano Competition.
"There are many prized recordings of the Beethoven sonatas from past masters and current artists. But if I had to
recommend a single complete set, I would suggest Mr. Lewis’s distinguished recordings." - Anthony Tommasini, New
York Times
"One of the most highly prized recording marathons of recent years.... An unmissable benchmark." - Gramophone
Reviews
Paul Lewis has finally turned his attention to Haydn. Hurray for that, for it’s a superb fit; it’s also clear that he has absorbed the experience of working with Alfred Brendel as a young man, and the results are nothing if not personal. For this first disc (surely there will be more) we get four masterpieces that occupy different aspects of the composer. ... Highlights are many but the B minor Sonata (No 32) is special indeed, Lewis relishing its chewy textures, never smoothing over its edges, which makes the moments where there’s a softening of tone all the more effective. Harriet Smith
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