INITIALES / Paul Lewis: "Sonata" - Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt

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Here is a beautifully packaged presentation, elegantly styled with rounded corners to the CD digipack. The distinguished French label Harmonia Mundi has inaugurated a new, mid-price reissue series called Initiales, designed to focus on its top artists. The first release, a double CD, features pianist Paul Lewis, a man at the top of the ladder and the peak of his prowess. Lewis s recordings of the complete Beethoven Sonatas are universally acclaimed. His reputation as a Schubertian is second to none. So the discs, a kind of Paul Lewis sampler, feature his extraordinary mix of passion, power and poetry in Beethoven s Pathetique and sparkling opus 79 Sonatas, and his sense of structure, colour and sensitivity in Schubert s 19th and 20th Sonatas. Disc 2 also features Lewis s 2003 recording of Liszt s B minor Sonata. I have a notion that, back then, I had some reservations about his Liszt. Try as I might, I can t track down those prejudices in this magisterial performance, with its exceptionally lucid playing. --Michael Tumelty, The Herald, 18 September 2011

Works:

 • Beethoven: Sonata No 8 Pathetique In Cm Op 13
 • Beethoven: Sonata No 25 Presto Alla Tedesca In G Maj Op 79-
 • Schubert: Sonata No 19 In Cm D958
 • Schubert: Sonata No. 20 In A Major D. 959 
• Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola (Version 2)
 • Liszt: Sonata In B minor