CLASSICAL

摘要

Mozart apart, Paul Lewis's discography has closely mirrored his mentor Alfred Brendel's (both even including Mussorgsky's Pictures) although the 11 Haydn sonatas with Brendel [Philips] excluded the E-flat No 49 which opens this CD. Some of Haydn's sonatas were written with specific, talented persons in mind, able to deal with their intricacies - they are a lot more challenging technically than Mozart's. Typically, the opening of No 49 has a fragment that keeps popping up, but Lewis's adroitness means we never feel we've heard it too often. His playing in the Allegro of No 50 (a wonderful sonata whose Adagio Beethoven must surely have known) is quite marvellous - selfless too.