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This spring multi award-winning pianist Paul Lewis embarks on a two-year Schubert project, performing all the composer's mature piano works from the Wanderefantasie onwards. This recital showcases some of these key pieces including perhaps the most exuberant of all Schubert's sonatas, the 17th, written in the mountain spa of Gastein in 1825 during a rare interlude of joyful repose in what was otherwise a markedly turbulent and troubled life. Paul Lewis is one of today's most distinctive and poetic pianists. He won the Gramophone Instrumental Award and Record of the Year in 2008, his 2009 recording of Schubert's Winterreise with Mark Padmore was a Gramophone and Sunday Telegraph pick of the year, and last year he became the first ever pianist to play all five Beethoven piano concertos during a single Proms season.