Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16, Wandererfantasie & Impromptus

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His playing of everything here is exemplary; if one were ever tempted to say a recording was 'definitive' then this is the time...Playing such as Lewis's expands and extends my ideas about what... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2012
Catalogue No: HMC902136/37
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

Instrumental Choice
Gramophone Magazine

December 2012

Editor's Choice

Schubert: Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer'

Work length20:30

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Paul Lewis

I. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo

Track length5:44

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II. Adagio

Track length6:30

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III. Presto

Track length4:45

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:31

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Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935

Work length34:39

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Paul Lewis

I. Allegro moderato (F Minor)

Track length10:38

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II. Allegretto. Trio (A flat Major )

Track length6:32

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III. Thema Andante. Variations I-V. Più lento (B flat Major)

Track length11:14

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IV. Allegro scherzando (F Minor )

Track length6:15

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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D845

Work length35:40

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Paul Lewis

I. Moderato

Track length10:34

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II. Andante poco mosso

Track length12:41

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III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio. Un poco più lento

Track length7:03

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IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace

Track length5:22

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Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94

Work length27:17

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Paul Lewis

I. Moderato

Track length5:57

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II. Andantino

Track length5:32

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III. Allegretto moderato

Track length1:54

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IV. Moderato

Track length5:15

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V. Allegro vivace

Track length2:08

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VI. Allegretto. Trio

Track length6:31

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Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D915

Work length4:52

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Paul Lewis

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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.

Reviews

Christmas 2012

His playing of everything here is exemplary; if one were ever tempted to say a recording was 'definitive' then this is the time...Playing such as Lewis's expands and extends my ideas about what Schubert could do...Lewis shows, more than perhaps any pianist I have heard, how much latent violence there is in almost all Schubert's writing for the piano...I'd be surprised if any Schubert lover didn't find these two discs a revelation.

December 2012

whether in a Moment musical or the mighty Wanderer, Lewis's vision is persuasive. Above all, it's playing that possesses a profound confidence that has surely come from his wholesale immersion in the music of the composer, not just the solo piano works but chamber and vocal too...A worthy continuation, then, of what is fast emerging as a benchmark Schubert series for our time.

7th October 2012

outstanding performances...He is dazzling in the brilliant passages (wonderful F minor and B flat impromptus). Even more important, he finds a beautiful glow for those quintessential Schubert moments of deep, sad stillness.

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16, Wandererfantasie & Impromptus

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