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It was high time someone blew the interpretive cobwebs off this still under-appreciated repertoire, and Donohue is clearly the person to do it. He appears to take early Beethoven as his interpretive... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019 More…

Szell later re-recorded almost all the repertoire, but it’s fascinating to hear the partnership when their much-vaunted precision was well in progress, if not immaculate...Best of all are Schumann’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

surely only a dedicated ideologue would deny that Donohoe has here found a playing style that feels exactly right for the idiom of the music itself. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

K576 stands at the centre of this enormously satisfying third volume of Donohoe’s Mozart cycle….Donohoe invests this music with a real sense of pathos and world-weariness, extracting a wealth... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

I was immediately struck by the orchestral quality of their sound, its depth, volume and colour. That’s a benefit of having four hands at one piano, rather than two, and surely testament to... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Rather than adopt contemporary period instrument rhetoric and fleet-footed tempos, Uys and Schoeman set their interpretative compass around the mid-20th century – I was reminded on more than... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

wonderful moments in [the Schubert]…accelerating excitement…monumental effect as
a performance overall… — CD Review, April 2011 More…