Peter Donohoe reviews
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (Donohoe)
Peter Donohoe (piano) (SOMM)
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
Peter Donohoe (piano) (SOMM)
Tchaikovsky: Solo Piano Works
Peter Donohoe (piano) (Signum Classics)
Peter Donohoe brings us Tchaikovsky with poise and passion
'Peter Donohoe, while never underplaying the Sonata’s moments of explosive rhetoric, finds a poetic, Chopinesque poise’
Peter Donohoe gives 'a mesmerising performance' of Shostakovich's Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 and Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2
Peter Donohoe enters a crowded field when it comes to fine recordings of Shostakovich’s piano concertos. Among recent releases, Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi) and Boris Giltburg (Naxos) are particularly adept at projecting the music’s troubling emotional ambiguity, which in the First Concerto seems to veer between manic high-jinks in the fast movements and suffocating loneliness in the Lento. In comparison, Donohoe is less histrionic, presenting a sober, almost neo-classical account of the work, delivered with crystal-clear articulation.