WALTON
Piano Quartet in A minor / String Quartet in A minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Sep/2000 ] Colourful chamber works from this internationally famous English composer |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet In D Minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] |
ELGAR
String Quartet In E Minor / Piano Quintet In A Minor Maggini String Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making" - Gramophone |
KEVIN VOLANS
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments / etc Netherlands Wind Ensemble / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Kevin Volans (piano) / Daniel Harding (conductor) / Wim Steinmann (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] Born in South Africa, but now resident in Ireland, Kevin Volans' musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of influences, including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne, field trips to Africa to study traditional music, his own... |
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 |
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" |
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 |
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 |
TIPPETT
Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "For those fans of Tippett who are unfamiliar with his sonatas, this disc fits in perfectly with Naxos’s wonderful record of presenting rarely heard works that are sensitively recorded and ably played. Donohoe’s performances have conviction and... |
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 |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concertos Nos 1-3 / Concert Fantasy Peter Donohoe (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai (with guest appearances by Nigel Kennedy and Steven Isserlis) [ EMI Gemini / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "These are distinguished interpretations, in which Donohoe's staggering technique is sensitively supported by the Bournemouth Symphony." (Gramophone March 2004) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Simon Rattle Edition: Stravinsky Peter Donohoe (piano) / London Sinfonetta, Berlin Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Simon Rattle Edition / 4 CD Box Set - released 9/Feb/2009 ] The box of Stravinsky contains works from all parts of Stravinsky's musical life including six ballets, Symphonies, Suites, the Ebony Concerto, and more. |
JOHN FOULDS
Dynamic Triptych / April Evening / 2 Short Indian Works Peter Donohoe (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [ Warner Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/2006 ] "Brilliant music Stokowski would have loved and Oramo does proud" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine June 2006) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky (Incls 'Le Sacra du Printemps', 'Petrushka' & 'L'Oiseau de feu') Peter Donohoe (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] "As ever with Rattle, it's the immense trust he places in the composer's handiwork, the care he exercises in matters of balance and dynamic shading, harmonic context and so on, that pays the dividends." (Gramophone on The Firebird) |
FERGUSON / GERHARD / ROWLEY / DARNTON
British Piano Concertos Peter Donohoe (piano & conductor) / Northern Sinfonia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Concerto "Four contrasting concertos for piano with string orchestra. They are all played with surging elan and no little poetry. Enthusiastically recommended." (MusicWeb) |
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 |
ARTHUR BLISS
Piano Concerto / Piano Sonata / Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra Peter Donohoe (piano) / Martin Roscoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "Eager and polished performances that do Bliss absolutely proud." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2004) |
JOHN GARDNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 1 / Midsummer Ale Overture Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] This recording should help to re-establish [Gardner's] reputation with two relatively early works written in the post-war years, the Symphony No. 1, "a superbly crafted work... by a subtle and imaginative orchestrator" (Paul... |
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... |
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... |