...For one reason or another, I never quite intuitively responded to his recordings – or in the rare caught live performance his playing – as I thought I would and should: “However tenuous the idea is, one expects a sense of occasion, something ‘special’… something more than a performance that admittedly impresse[s] with unfussy, very fluent playing… but also threw in two parts out of three autopilot.” Gradually my expectations shrunk back to size, to the point where I felt ambivalent at popping a new Lewis recording into the player. Perhaps that’s why it took me so long to get to his 2015 release of Musorgsky’s [sic] Pictures at an Exhibition...
-> Classical CD Of The Week: The Evanescent Elegance Of Paul Lewis' Pictures At An Exhibition
 M.Musorgsky + R.Schumann, Pictures at an Exhibition, Fantasy op.17, Paul Lewis, Harmonia Mundi  |
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