Rodewald Concert Series: Complete Schubert Cycle

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Paul Lewis, one of the most astounding Schubert interpreters, performs romantic masterpieces and miniatures by the composer.

Dreamer, poet, radical, and visionary, Franz Schubert was a composer who stood between worlds. In his short life, he wrote music as epic as Beethoven and as perfect as Mozart; music that could bubble with life and joy and yet probe the darkest depths of the human soul – or distil both experiences into pure, haunting beauty. Schubert’s music defined the Romantic age and Paul Lewis’s astounding performances are coming to define the way our age hears Schubert. In barely a decade, Lewis has emerged as one of the great musical thinkers of our time, and his relationship with Schubert is at the very heart of his artistry. Now, at the climax of a two‐year exploration of Schubert’s late piano music, Lewis returns to his home city for a series of concerts that explore the full range of Schubert’s mature genius; from deceptively simple miniatures to such groundbreaking romantic masterpieces as the Wanderer Fantasy and the late piano sonatas.

‘And the listener must wait, out of respect to this marvellous partnership of Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis, until time can be taken for it alone and uninterrupted, to accompany them on the journey through to its unearthly end.’ Gramophone Magazine

Choose from the wide variety of high‐calibre concerts offered in Liverpool this season.