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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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[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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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A delightful selection of pieces, previously unrecorded. The light frippery on display is balanced by more calculated offerings like Memories of Sapphire. — More…
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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,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Instrumental Choice
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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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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies for Piano Duo, Vol.1
arr. Xaver Scharwenka
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano duo)
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... — More…
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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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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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