Paul Lewis | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe last time I heard Paul Lewis in recital, he was playing Liszt's great B minor Sonata. That was a rather soft-edged performance, of a work that really doesn't need quite so much TLC. There was Liszt in this latest Festival Hall programme, too – Vallée d'Obermann, from the first book of the Annèes de Pelérinage – but this time there was nothing cuddly about it all. Stark, magisterially sonorous and riven with dramatic pauses, it was the highlight of a recital...

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