Paul Lewis

Whilst scoring a TV play starring actor Robert Hardy, I was asked by him to write a short organ piece in memory of his recently deceased mother-in-law, the famous star of stage and screen Gladys Coope...

Norfolk Idyll' is based on my score for the celebrated 1972 BBC TV documentary 'The Vanishing Hedgerows', presented by author and naturalist Henry Williamson. The film was Williamson's reaction to mod...

Lyric Suite is dedicated to Sharon my wife and is inspired by the happiness of married life in our Tudor home near the South Downs. Sharon grew up north of the Downs within sight of Chanctonbury Ring...

Instrumentation: Horn in F, 4 Trumpets in Bb, 4 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani. Jubilate was commissioned in 2016 by the Restoration Committee of St. Nicolas Church Parochial Church Council, Pevensey, to co...

Two Soliloquies' were originally composed in 1997 as solos for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry. The composer made this trio arrangement (for Flute [or Violin], Viola and Harp) for the Aurora Trio in Sep...

In 1997 guitar virtuoso John Mills asked me to write a piece to conclude his 50th birthday concert that would 'bring the house down'. The result was this dance suite. The first movement, 'Slow Waltz,'...

Trois Serenades:' three romantic pieces with a Mediterranean atmosphere, adapted from music composed in 1969 for film and TV and completed in France in April 1992 for guitar virtuoso John Mills. 'Paul...

An album of gentle, relaxing pieces with the emphasis on melody. Nothing too difficult and only one lever change while playing! Paul Lewis was inspired to write these pieces when his wife, Sharon Eliz...

I have always loved the harp. My first TV score, written in 1963 when I was twenty, contained an extensive harp part, and I have recorded with many wonderful harpists, including Marie Goossens, Jean B...

The subject of these musings, 'Hine e Hine', is a simple but tender lullaby written in New Zealand by Fanny Rose Howie, 1868-1916. Renaming herself Princess Te Rangi Pai after her Maori mother, she en...

Three musical postcards from the city of love, culture and expensive shops. 1. Moonlight in Montmartre: Montmartre, a village within a city - artists, singers of chanson, cafes and the bells of Sacre...

Scintillate the tintinnabulator' my maths master used to say when it was time to ring the school bell, adding his own take to Edgar Alan Poe's beautiful word 'tintinnabulations', devised to describe t...

These pieces are evocations of 16th and 17th century dance forms by a composer long fascinated by the period. The melodies are new and no genuine anticke (old English for antique) tunes are used. MONS...

A collection of pieces evocative of an age of wandering minstrels, kings and castles, by a composer with a lifelong fascination for all things mediaeval. Having composed many works for pedal harp, Pau...

A collection of pieces from the contemplative to the downright silly, with a choice of local takeaway for added sustenance! Paul Lewis was inspired to write these pieces when his wife, Sharon Elizabet...

A photo of harpist Maia Darme, smiling beneath her umbrella in the Paris rain, inspired this Parisian-style waltz. 'S'il pleut a Paris, n'importe pas, c'est la pluie parisienne!' If it rains in Paris,...

Cradle Song & Music Box Polka' were commissioned by Graham and Jenny Pay as a gift for their daughter, harpist Camilla Pay, upon the birth of her second daughter, Claudia Poppy Knight, on November 17t...

The 'Trois Preludes' were composed in March 2006 to thank the dedicatees, guitarist Erik Marchelie and harpist Anne Mispelter, for their passionate performances of my music at the 'Journee avec le com...

In December 2018, browsing in an antique shop, I discovered a hand-coloured photographic print, dated 1900, of a loosely attired maiden with long wavy pre-Raphaelite hair bearing roses and gazing lang...

Unusually for a work of mine, the 'Sonatina' is neither pictorial nor programmatic, but is simply about the music itself and the instrument it is written for; it is in fact an attempt to contribute a...

Artist George Frederick Watts' famous personification of Hope (which appears on the cover) inspired mixed reactions when first exhibited in 1886 since it appeared to many to depict the exact opposite:...

Since my teenage years the music of French composer Michel Legrand has been a source of joy and inspiration. When I heard of his death in January 2019 I went straight to the piano and found this melod...

Since my teenage years the music of French composer Michel Legrand has been a source of joy and inspiration. When I heard of his death in January 2019 I went straight to the piano and found this melod...

A gentle piece to induce reminiscence and memories of childhood, commissioned by harpist Margaret Watson for her mother Carol's eightieth birthday celebrations in November 2019. Using the English exte...

Rye Rambles' is a tone poem in three continuous sections written in 2019 and based on material from 'Rye Festival Suite', a work for string orchestra and harp composed for the 40th anniversary Rye Art...