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The astoundingly musical Paul Lewis goes from strength to strength. With these three sonatas, he's now recorded eight Schubert sonatas, the Trout quintet, piano duos with Steven Osborne, and the three Lieder cycles with Mark Padmore. His Schubert can bear comparison to the best we have, from Schnabel, Edwin Fischer, his mentor Brendel, Uchida, Kempff, Lili Kraus, Curzon, Richter, Horowitz, and anyone else you can think of. His label Harmonia Mundi had already a complete Schubert cycle by Alain Planes. but the success of Lewis's complete Beethoven sonatas, concertos, and recent Diabelli Variations has encouraged them to record more Schubert with him. He's playing the cycle of Schubert's mature work in five recitals around the world, of which I've heard three in Chicago. The magic holds. I couldn't sleep if I didn't have these CDs safely under the roof and can wear out shoes listening to them.