Paul Lewis

Un brano efficace tra il romantico e il jazzistico, che a tratti ricorda la musica da circo. Originariamente composto da Paul Lewis per armonica, questo breve lavoro di successo è stato arrangiato da...

Three light and tuneful pieces for solo piano - around grade 4 standard. For Nina Marie; For Rowena; For Mike - Three musical gifts to my granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. 'For Nina Marie' was m...

A piece of cake for an enthusiastic pianist!' For some years I have enjoyed giving regular talks to the East Sussex Federation of Women's Institutes, travelling to different branches throughout the co...

Though scored for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and 3 percussion (snare drum, tambourine, cymbals), the fanfare can be performed by trumpets or trombones without one another and with or without percussion....

Lux et Ombra: light and shadow - for brass quintet of two trumpets in Bb (or Cornet and Flugelhorn), Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba. The music suggests an interplay between the forces of light and darkn...

A Paris & Tango Erotique' - The two 'Etudes Amicales', or 'Friendly Studies', were written for two pairs of friends and are spontaneous gestures of appreciation for their musicianship and friendship....

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...

Listening in England to harpist Alessandra Ziveri's recording of Luigi Perracchio's Sonata on popular Italian folk songs, I decided as a gesture of international musical friendship to thank her for th...

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...

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...

Two short pieces for harp with a gentle jazz inflection. 'Sunday Morning Meander:' One Sunday morning Fiona Hosford, my wife's harp teacher, emailed her a chord she'd discovered and taken a liking to....

Two rhapsodic and improvisatory pieces composed in 1997 for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry and revised for publication in 2018. The second makes use of two three-note motifs representing the initials o...