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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…

A delightful selection of pieces, previously unrecorded. The light frippery on display is balanced by more calculated offerings like Memories of Sapphire. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mark Bebbington's 85th-birthday tribute to the late Sir Malcolm Arnold starts with his first substantial piano composition, the Piano Sonata in B minor from 1942. After a concise opening movement,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

[Bebbington] plays with tremendous authority, supported by a vivid recording with a appropriately wide dynamic range…Whatever his passions, private or public, Bax does what all worthwhile composers... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The main work here is the grim and haunted Sonata (1921-24), Bridge's painful and profound response to the Great War. This is an epic performance, making the most of the work's mingled violence... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, 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…

Throughout, Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars 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…