Paul Lewis Beethoven

…appropriately enough this final volume ends with the last sonata triptych of Opp. 109-111. Lewis plays all three works with characteristic warmth and beauty of tone, and you're not likely... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

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...Unashamedly exploiting the warmth and... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

As always, Paul Lewis offers playing of rare insight and intelligence. He is just as much at home in the dazzling brilliance of the C major Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3...as in the graceful lyricism... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Paul Lewis is a serious artist, and the quality of his playing, beautifully captured by Harmonia Mundi's engineers, is of a very high standard throughout. Particularly fine is the Waldstein... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This new set of the Beethoven concertos is interestingly different in emphasis, in that whereas I had previously thought of Lewis as primarily a thoughtful, searching player...these accounts... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 starsMore…