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Paul Lewis is a composer in love with the harp! His first TV score, written when he was twenty, was scored for flute, oboe, harp and accordion and contained an extensive harp part, and many of his early TV scores featured flute and harp. Latterly the harp has assumed centre stage in his chamber music output and he is building a considerable catalogue of solo harp works. In the course of his long career he has worked and recorded with many distinguished harpists, among them Marie Goossens, Jean Bell, Sheila Bromberg (of The Beatles "She's Leaving Home" fame,) Gabriella Dall'Olio, Skaila Kanga, Elizabeth Jane Baldry, Camilla Pay, Alexander Rider and David Snell. HARPSCAPE, a CD of Paul's harp music, played by Gabriella Dall'Olio, contains four suites: "Postcards from Paris", "Decospherics", "Musings on a Maori Lullaby", and the ever-popular "Saturday Night Jazz Suite". Short excerpts may be heard here: Harpscape CD.

"Paul Lewis' prolific output for the harp is fed by a passionate adoration of the instrument....This often luscious oeuvre has found an ideal interpreter in Dall'Olio........A delicious collection of truly lovely music, lovingly played." Alexander Rider reviewing "Harpscape" CD of PL's harp music played by Gabriella Dall'Olio in "Harp", the UKHA magazine, autumn 2018.

Of Paul Lewis's harp solos: "Beautiful, lyrical and sometimes nostalgic pieces, stepping back in time to showcase the harp at its stylish best." Gabriella Dall'Olio, international soloist and Head of Harp Studies and Harp Chamber Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.

Of 'Saturday Night Jazz Suite': "Fun, enjoyable and entertaining: the perfect music to brighten your mood, and the mood of your audience!" Gabriella Dall'Olio, London.

"Paul's compositions for the harp are well written, full of charm and they are never obvious. It is a new way of playing and listening to the harp!" Alessandra Ziveri, harpist, Italy.

"I've been playing your music and enjoying myself immensely. I like your humour and fantasy." Gloria Joyce Burt, harpist, Sweden.

Click on the titles below to read about them on the publishers' websites, and in the case of Goodmusic publications see the score and hear a computer-generated performance,, though you listen at your peril: computers cannot play with feeling or do rubato, bisbigliando, harmonics or chordal glissandi!

SOLO HARP

Saturday Night Jazz Suite Associated Boards & Trinity/Guildhall Exam Syllabuses
Valses   formerly Trinity/Guildhall Exam Syllabus
Musings on a Maori Lullaby - Variations on Hine e Hine
Two for Fi
Two Soliloquies
Slavic Dances
Tintinnabulations
Jane Austen Suite
Lullaby and Music Box Waltz
Ballade Romantique
Postcards from Paris
Decospherics - Four Jazz Age Dances
Two Laments
Four Anticke Dances
Girl with Harp and Roses
Hope

TWO HARPS

Trois Preludes

LEVER HARP SOLO
Sonatina

LEVER HARP BOOKS (nine pieces in each)

Echoes of Olden Times
Contemplation and Comedy
Jazz-n-Jive
Celtic Dreams
Melodic Moments

FLUTE & HARP
Pink and White Terraces
Two Waltzes
Norfolk Idyll
Impromptu
Serenata
Rhapsody on Scarborough Fair

BASSOON & HARP
Two Portraits

VIOLIN & HARP
Impromptu
Serenata
Reluctant Heroines

CELLO & HARP
Two Portraits

GUITAR & HARP
Trois Preludes

HARMONICA & HARP
Impromptu
Serenata

FLUTE, VIOLA & HARP
Divertimento

VIOLIN, CELLO & HARP
Trio Romantico

CONCERTANTE WORKS
Norfolk Concerto for flute, harp and strings
Devonshire Dances harp and small orchestra
Rye Festival Suite string orchestra and harp, with three harp interludes