In what's believed to be a first for Aotearoa, a pianist is playing the full Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle over three consecutive days in the same city. Englishman Paul Lewis is undertaking the Beethoven marathon with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Lynn Freeman caught up with Paul in Colorado where he was performing at the Aspen Music Festival, ahead of his trip to Aotearoa. She asked him if he's also in training to perform the five Beethoven piano concertos on the trot. Pianist Paul Lewis's Back to Back Beethoven three-nIght series starts on Friday August 12 in the Auckland Town Hall.