We're now nearly two thirds of the way through Paul Lewis's Beethoven Sonata cycle and, to my ears anyway, these performances are phenomenally exciting and inspiring. I'm, again, hearing things in even the most familiar works that I haven't heard before and which seem both revelatory and instantly 'right'. For me, these performances are the most substantial event of the year so far on R3 by some way, as they were last year. Beethoven himself emerges once again as just......  no, perhaps I'd better stop or Ian will be after me for indulging in the mystery cult of 'the great composer'

What do others think of these performances? Any comments from the pianists here on what he is doing technically? Whatever it is it impresses me greatly.

As I've said elsewhere,at first I thought that although he was a perfectly competent  competent pianist there was nothing in his playing to justify the extravagant plaudits he had received.

Then on Moday evening I was very impressed and moved by his playing of the opus 2 sonatas. Last night ,however,it was back to normal. Maybe I was having an off-day,or maybe he was. But the spark wasn't there.

So for now I still regard him as a good but not a great pianist. To be fair,I think he is as good as Pizzaro,but that's not saying much,I'm afraid. So far he's no John Lill.