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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Paul Lewis

Saturday 17 July 2021, Zweisimmen Church

Chamber music

Saturday 17 July 2021
7.30 pm, Zweisimmen Church

You don't need words to conjure up images in the minds of listeners: music will suffice... as long as the notes are intelligently assembled! Paul Lewis can be relied upon to draw the characteristic contours of Mussorgsky's highly visual “Pictures at an Exhibition” as well as to stimulate the imagination in more “abstract” pages such as Haydn's or Schubert's sonatas. The son of a Liverpool dock worker, this Briton, whom nothing predestined for music, is an artist in every sense of the word. Propelled to the forefront of the international scene thanks to his complete recording of Beethoven's 32 sonatas with Harmonia Mundi, he was appointed artistic director of the prestigious Leeds Competition in 2015, as successor to Fanny Waterman.

 

Sharing music with young people

Paul Lewis, Piano

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 
«Lieder ohne Worte» [Songs Without Words]:12'
in E Major, Op. 19 No. 1 
in A Minor, Op. 19 No. 2 
in G Minor, Op. 53 No. 3 
in E-flat Major, Op. 53 No. 2 
in B Binor, Op. 30 No. 4 
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 
Piano Sonata No. 9 in B Major, D 57525'
Alexander Skrjabin (1871-1915) 
5 Préludes op. 747'
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) 
“Pictures at an Exhibition”, Piano Suite35'
 80'
CHF 125/105/65