More By Artist: Peter Donohoe (piano)
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Lieder ohne Worte - Songs without Words - seems to be a description invented by Mendelssohn himself for these short, lyrical and descriptive piano pieces which he composed so prolifically. Indeed, it is arguable that these works define his pianistic... |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyric Pieces Volume 1 Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] If Chopin 'invented' the Mazurka, then surely by the same token Grieg 'invented' the Lyric Piece. Over his lifetime he published ten volumes of Lyric Pieces, containing sixty-six individual works. Born in Bergen, Grieg studied in Leipzig and became... |
DORA PEJACEVIC
Pejacevic: Piano Concerto / Symphony Peter Donohoe (Piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Chandos / CD - released 5/May/2022 ] Countess Mária Theodora (Dora) Paulina Pejacevic was born in September 1885 in Budapest. Young Dora grew up with all the advantages of an aristocrat: a fairy-tale life of opulent palaces set in idyllic landscapes; privilege, comfort, leisure, and... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Vol.1 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "Brilliantly and excitingly played: Peter Donohoe's Mendelssohn series gets off to a great start…impresses with its warm and rich sound." ***** Pizzicato.lu |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Viola Sonatas Nos 1 and 2, etc. / Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Philip Dukes (viola), Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Recognised as one of the world's leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over thirty years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He joins forces with Peter Donohoe, acclaimed as one of the... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Elegien / Toccata / etc Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "The Toccata BV 29, being a transcription of Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV 564, allows Donohoe's artistry to flower. The first movement has a majestically cathedral sound, and the Adagio has grave beauty, with the Fugue flying exhilaratingly" |
ALWYN / BAX / BERKELEY / BRITTEN / MOERAN / RAWSTHORNE / etc
British String Quartets Maggini Quartet, with David Campbell (clarinet), Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Naxos / 20 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2019 ] "Another British string quartet rarity from the Maggini Quartet. Fine performances of two superbly confident chamber works." Editor's Choice - Gramophone |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Solo Piano Works Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] "There's a lightness of touch, a crisp transparency and clarity of texture that sends the opening 'Scherzo à la russe' spinning off into the realms of sheer delight… A very fine issue indeed." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2020 |
MESSIAEN / MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition / Messiaen - Cantéyodjayâ / Ravel - Miroirs Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Donohoe earns plaudits with this magisterial account of Pictures at an Exhibition. Everything you could reasonably - or unreasonably - ask for is here." BBC Music |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: The Complete Piano Sonatas Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Somm / 2 CD - released 15/May/2018 ] "It is a tribute to Donohoe's authority and experience that his Scriabin interpretations hold their own and have something to say in a crowded and competitive catalogue" Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) Hugh Davies (trumpet) / Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis [ Signum / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] "Unbridled talent on display here… his control of rhythm and dynamics exemplary...Both concertos receive very proficient and idiomatic performances." MusicWeb |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "These two discs present musical invention at its most purely exhilarating. ..Donohoe's commitment is superb." Sunday Times |
WITOLD MALISZEWSKI
Symphony No 3 / Piano Concerto in B flat minor Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2016 ] Witold Maliszewski (b. 1873) died in 1939 and thus his musical career spanned the great days of pre-Revolutionary Russia as well as the Soviet Union before the Second World War. He became associated with the publisher Belaieff and thus with a wide... |
WALTER BRAUNFELS
Symphony No 3 / Piano Concerto in B flat minor Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2016 ] Dutton Epoch's first two volumes of music by Walter Braunfels were a revelation to many to whom the composer was just a name. This third volume concentrates on music written between 1910 and 1946. It is surprising that the glorious four-movement... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Philharmonic Concerto / Symphony No.7 / etc Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] With three major works by Malcolm Arnold from the mid-1970s, Dutton Epoch surveys his music written in Ireland. The focus of the programme is Arnold's Seventh Symphony, dissonant and exhilarating by turns in the first movement and ending with Irish... |
ALAN BUSH
Africa Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 2 / Fantasia on Soviet Themes Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Alan Bush's stern face usually hid a tuneful heart, and in Dutton Epoch's second disc of orchestral music by this composer, the RSNO presents the popular, programmatic Nottingham Symphony evoking Sherwood Forest, Clifton Grove, Castle Rock and the... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ SOMM / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "Donohoe absolutely nails the Fifth Sonata's Andantino to a proverbial tee...Evidently Donohoe harbours great affection for this underrated, attractively French-tinged masterpiece." - Gramophone |
CYRIL SCOTT
Piano Concerto in D / Cello Concerto / Overture to 'Pelleas and Melisanda' Peter Donohoe (piano) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "The indefatigible Martin Yates has rescued and edited substantial early works by Cyril Scott, including a previously unknown Piano Concerto and Cello Concerto: Donohoe and Wallfisch show they contain music of surprising merit." (BBC Music) |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet In D Minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] |
THOMAS PITFIELD
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Anthony Goldstone (piano) / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra / Andrew Penny [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] |
