A delightfully fresh approach to Mozart's piano sonatas

A delightfully fresh approach to Mozart's piano sonatas

‘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 trajectory with a gloves-off spontaneity that imbues these magical scores with a compelling vitality and freshness.’

 

Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K284 ‘Dürnitz’; Fantasia in D minor, K397; Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat, K570; Piano Sonata No. 2 in F, K280
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Somm Recordings SOMMCD 0191   69:05 mins

Freya Parr

Published: March 5, 2019 at 3:23 pm

‘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 trajectory with a gloves-off spontaneity that imbues these magical scores with a compelling vitality and freshness.’

Mozart Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K284 ‘Dürnitz’; Fantasia in D minor, K397; Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat, K570; Piano Sonata No. 2 in F, K280 Peter Donohoe (piano) Somm Recordings SOMMCD 0191 69:05 mins

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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