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Our 2017 Great Performer, pianist Paul Lewis talks about his love for Melbourne Recital Centre and the works he will perform in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in December 2017.

Tickets at www.melbournerecital.com.au//paul-lewis

About Paul Lewis' upcoming Melbourne Recital Centre recital:

‘This was playing of intellectual rigour and imaginative vigour.’ Daily Telegraph (London)

Lewis embarks on a three-year journey into the music by three radical innovators of his instrument. Joseph Haydn’s sonatas are among the first conceived for the brand new pianoforte, a series of cheeky experiments in texture and melody that set the stage for Beethoven’s own searching investigations. His late Bagatelles are some of the strangest pieces ever written for the piano – moment-by-moment they are lyrical, gruff, spiritual and perverse – and are Beethoven’s farewell to the instrument. The piano is central to Brahms’s work. Capable of both tempestuous emotion and tender restraint, the instrument is Brahms’s voice, expressing things that are beyond words.