Plowright plays everything with calm, unforced nuance assurance, nicely balancing Bach style and period manners, and making light of all the left-hand skips needed to suggest Bach's organ pedal parts.

there is much to surprise and delight in tributes that, for the most part, seem bathed in a seraphic and unearthly light...Stevenson's opulence in his "Komm, süsser Tod" makes an ideal end to this dream recital. Jonathan Plowright's playing is of unfaltering poise and sustained eloquence.

Vaughan Williams's sumptuously harmonised chorale and chorale prelude is the pick of the bunch...Jonathan Plowright makes the most of the opportunities he gets, and includes transcriptions by Myra Hess and Cohen

Every so often a CD comes along that I simply can't stop playing. Here's one such example: a collection of Bach transcriptions for piano, not by that master of transcribers, Ferruccio Busoni, but by a veritable Who's Who of 20th-century British composers