Jonathan Plowright

This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet, the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Stojowski’s Symphonic Rhapsody is a worthy addition to [Plowright 's] valuable and impressive discography of neglected music by Polish composers...Plowright is one of those pianists who can make... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2017 More…

A sparkling centenary showcase for the youthful genius of Constant Lambert. Jonathan Plowright cuts a dash with his scintillating technique, opalescent tone and beguiling range of colour, and... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

Plowright makes the best possible case for [the Gablenz] in partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz, a champion of neglected Polish music...Paderewski’s Polish... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright is used to handling weightier tomes, having recently released the fifth instalment of his ongoing Brahms solo works series (also Hyperion), but he is a master of melodies. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

His warmth and sincerity combine with a superbly assured and powerful technique to create one of the finest performances [of the F minor Sonata] on record...His Handel Variations, too, are subtly... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

[Zarebski] wrote [his Piano Quintet] in the year of his premature death, dedicating it to his teacher Liszt, and the virtuosity that implies is caught here in a performance of passionate warmth...Again,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright’s Brahms could easily be described as rugged: thunderclouds often loom and there are few moments of brighter outlook along the way…dark Brahms, then, but Plowright’s powerful, uncompromising... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…