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Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Volume 6
Peter Donohoe (piano)
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.
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Volume 6
Peter Donohoe (piano)
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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.
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SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe reaches its end with Volume 6 featuring four works illustrating the composer’s endless fascination and creative invention with the piano. Mozart described the Piano Sonata No.16 (K.545) as 'a little piano sonata for beginners'. It is so much more than that. As Christopher Morley says in his authoritative booklet notes: 'Sounding deceptively simple… the opening movement even so probes the player’s technique with a searching spotlight with scales demanding clarity and fluidity, sequences shared between both hands requiring equality of balance, and an absolute steadiness of pulse'. The early Piano Sonata No.4 (K.282), says Morley, reveals the likely influence of CPE Bach, a 'rococo/galant bridge between Baroque and Classical approaches'. This revealing six-volume survey concludes with the 'awesome pairing' of the improvisatory K.475 Fantasia and Piano Sonata No.14 (K.457), 'the Fantasia, which encapsulates so much over so short a span… puts the pragmatic resourcefulness of the sonatas themselves into such telling perspective'.
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Awards and reviews
March 2023
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.
April 2023
What you get throughout this cycle is playing of honesty and affection, free of point-making, even to the extent that it sometimes appears plain, but backed, of course, by a technique galvanised by immersion in the most robust of the Russian Romantics.
