SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2024 AT 4 PM
PIANIST PAUL LEWIS PLAYS
SCHUBERT’S LAST THREE SONATAS
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
On November 17, the poetic English pianist Paul Lewis will return to PCC's stage. Universally acclaimed for his sovereign Schubert interpretations, Lewis will perform Schubert’s profound final trilogy of sonatas. Read what the London Guardian’s critic Andrew Clements:
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Schubert’s last works given a masterful treatment
“Over the last two years Paul Lewis has been working his way through Schubert’s piano sonatas, and he has now reached the fourth and last programme in his series. Logically enough it is devoted to the final three sonatas, in C minor, D. 958, A major D. 959, and in B flat, D.960, a triptych that Schubert completed in September 1828, two months before his death.
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​Lewis is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of these great works, judicious with his rubato, and never imposing unnecessary mannerisms on the music” whether structurally or texturally everything is consistently uncluttered. And just as importantly, he was always at pains to allow the music the expressive space it requires, whether giving full weight to the silences that play such an important role in late Schubert, or letting the twists and shifts of the harmony work their magic.”
2024-2025
SEASON
September 29, 2024
Cellobration!
October 20, 2024
Modigliani Quartet
November 17, 2024
Paul Lewis Plays Schubert
December 15, 2024
The Virtuoso Flutist
Denis Bouriakov
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January 19, 2025
The Virtuoso Organist
Paul Jacobs
February 9, 2025
The Virtuoso Cellist
​Steven Isserlis
March 9, 2025
Ravel’s 150th Birthday Concert
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April 13, 2025
Quartetto Di Cremona
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May 18, 2025
Late Night With Leonard Bernstein
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LOCATION
At West Side Presbyterian Church
6 South Monroe Street
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For map and directions, click here.
CONCERT AMENITIES
Wheelchair Accessible
Free Parking for all concerts
FEATURING
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert
Program Notes
Sonata no. 19 in C minor D. 958
Franz Schubert
Program Notes
Sonata no. 20 in A major D. 959
Franz Schubert
Sonata no. 21 in B flat major D. 960
Program Notes