Peter Donohoe
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Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano)
if some of the works here make uncomfortable listening – despite Donohoe’s keyboard brilliance – that is because Busoni himself disdained aural comfort...But the Toccata BV 29, being a transcription... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
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Bliss: Piano Concerto
Peter Donohoe & Martin Roscoe (pianos)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Concerto for Two pianos is the most lively, attractive work on the disc, full of quick, spiky wit and delight on colour, all well brought out by Donohoe and Roscoe — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2004, Editor's Choice
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Alwyn (whose centenary year fell in 2005) is a composer of strong communicative gifts and the best of his music exhibits a disarming emotional candour, generous lyricism, powerful sense of argument... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Throughout, Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls. — More…
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Donohoe, while never underplaying the Sonata’s moments of explosive rhetoric, finds a more poetic, Chopinesque poise…Instead of being rushed off its feet, the final possesses a glorious, Lisztian... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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The pianist’s straightforward temperament and respect for the text emphasise truth over charm...Donohoe’s cogent and articulate annotations bring welcome personal and musical perspectives to... — More…
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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. — More…
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Stravinsky: Music for Solo Piano and Piano and Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton
All are superbly crisp and clean, and David Atherton has his Hong Kong orchestra on its toes. Both the Concerto and the Capriccio demonstrate extra energy just when interest might be in danger... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Donohoe is particularly attentive to this [operatic] side of Mozart’s expression, prioritising a cantabile tone, vivid articulation and songful phrasing. Although, realistically enough, he eschews... — More…
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