Misha Donat
Recent articles by Misha Donat
Oscar Levant: film star, and greatest Gershwin pianist of his generation
Oscar Levant built his reputation as an actor and radio host, but this talented pianist was also a key interpreter of Gershwin’s music
Olav Berg • Crusell • Weber: Bassoon Concertos
R Schumann: Piano Works
Haydn: Violin Concertos; Double Concerto
R Schumann: Piano Quartet; Piano Quintet
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 3 & 5
Brahms • Dvořák • Viotti: Concertos
Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Kreutzer Sonata
Who invented the metronome?
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel was the inventor of numerous weird and wonderful devices – but none was more successful than the metronome, writes Misha Donat
Haydn: 'Paris' Symphonies etc
ATOMOS – The Art of Musical Concentration
R Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 33, 53, 54 etc
R Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (1841/51 versions)
Bucharest Symphony Orchestra/John Axelrod (Orchid Classics)
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 33, 53, 54 etc (Basel/Antonini)
Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini (Alpha Classics)
Schubert: Mass No. 6
Joélle Harvey, Daryl Freedman et al; Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland SO)
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 93-95 (Danish CO/A Fischer)
Danish Chamber Orchesta/Ádám Fischer (Naxos)
Nature romantique
Juliette Hurel (flute), Hélène Couvert (piano), Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) (Alpha Classics)
Mozart – The Piano Quartets
Federico Colli (piano), Francesca Dego (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello) (Chandos)
George Onslow: has history judged the Anglo-French composer unfairly?
Admired by several notable contemporaries, the man once dubbed ‘the French Beethoven’ is surely ripe for reappraisal, says Misha Donat
Haydn: L'incontro improvviso
Bernhard Berchtold, Markus Miesenberger, Elisabeth Breuer, Rafael Fingerlos, Annastina Malm; L’Orfeo Barockorchester/Michi Gaigg (CPO)
Schubert – Lebensmuth
Signum Quartett (Pentatone)
Berg • R Strauss: Suites
Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland Orchestra)
Schubert + (Vol. 1) (Can Çakmur)
Can Çakmur (piano) (BIS)