During next Tuesday's performance in the Chamber Hall, he will feature three sonatas by the Austrian composer.

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a concert by the English pianist Paul Lewis this Tuesday (11 June). It is the third concert by the British master with the repertoire of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) for the Tenerife audience. This Integral will take place in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m. and includes three piano sonatas by the Austrian composer.

The programme includes an intermission and will begin with the Piano Sonata number 4 in A minor, D 537, to continue with the Sonata number 9 in B major, D 575. After the intermission, Paul Lewis will perform the Piano Sonata number 18 in G major, D 894. With frankness and sincerity, Schubert's sonatas express some of the most essential elements of human experience: longing, consolation, despair, joy, loss, nostalgia, and hope.

In September 2023 Paul Lewis began to show in Tenerife this deepening of Schubert's compositions written for piano that will finish with the fourth and final integral next October. During these concerts, Lewis will guide us through the last 12 years of the 19th-century composer's life and creation, from the charming lyricism of the early sonatas to the transcendent creativity of the last masterpieces and the harrowing moments of despair when Schubert's health began to decline.

Lewis is a renowned performer of the Central European piano repertoire. His performances and recordings of Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous acclaim. He was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music, and his musical approach has earned him followers all over the world.

He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestras Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York and Los Angeles, the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago and London, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. His close relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led to his appointment as a Koussevitzky Artist 2020 at Tanglewood.

He has received awards such as instrumentalist of the Year of the Royal Philharmonic Society, two Edison, three Gramophone, Diapason d'Or de l'Annee, the South Bank Show Classical Music Award, and honorary degrees from the universities of Liverpool, Edge Hill and Southampton.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for audiences under 30 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.