Peter Donohoe

Due for release on 21 August 2026

Released on 24 April 2026

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"Peter Donohoe presents the composer in a characteristically robust manner… [Donohoe] invests the more frothy, facile writing with gravitas and depth… excellent bit of programming… bold and forthright in the execution"

Gramophone

Released on 11 July 2025

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"Peter Donohoe relishes the tensile interplay of an initial Allegro evoking Bartók and finds real plangency in the Andante with its variations on a folk song. Closer to Szymanowski, the final Allegro is driven home with all the requisite panache"

Gramophone

Released on 17 May 2024

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"Peter Donohoe may, by his own admission, have come to this repertoire relatively late, but informed by his experience as a player of Debussy and Ravel, these fine renditions are convincingly idiomatic throughout. His performance of ‘Evocación’ is a perfect introduction, drawing the listener into the narrative with magical control of timing and rubato."

BBC Music Magazine

"Donohoe’s cogent and articulate annotations bring welcome personal and musical perspectives to this repertoire." Gramophone Magazine

"Donohoe takes each work at face value, delivering straightdown-the-middle interpretations with the utmost directness, high-definition clarity and scrupulous rhythmic accuracy."

Gramophone Magazine

Released in March 2021

“Peter Donohoe makes a poetic case for these piano gems. Donohoe’s seductively rounded sonority plays special dividends.” BBC Music Magazine 'Instrumental Choice'

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra | conductor David Atherton

"...the disc affords bracing insight into how genius discovers itself." The Sunday Times

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra | conductor Martin Yates

"One feels a profundity of thought behind these interpretations – a lifetime’s pondering, indeed." The Sunday Times

BBC Concert Orchestra | conductor Martin Yates

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Due for release on 17 July 2026

Released on 17 October 2025

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"Donohoe slips seamlessly into an ensemble that brings together longstanding friendships and shared performance history. His own quietly stated musical authority and flair is formidable and augmented..."

BBc Music Magazine

Released on 24 January 2025

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"This is the second release in Peter Donohoe’s ongoing exploration of Busoni’s solo piano works. And he is to be congratulated on his tenacity in bringing out both the intermittent splendours and, also, the teasing provocations of this of ten weirdly hermetic music"

BBC Music Magazine

Released on 03 May 2024

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"All five musicians play with requisite intensity and do a terrific job in ratcheting up the tension over long paragraphs...If you’re obsessed with the Taneyev Quintet, as I am, this beautifully engineered Signum recording is certainly worth hearing."

Gramophone

Released on 31 March 2023

"Donohoe is particularly attentive to this [operatic] side of Mozart’s expression, prioritising a cantabile tone, vivid articulation and songful phrasing."

BBC Music Magazine

"With music that demands immense virtuosity, Peter Donohoe meets each challenge fearlessly." The Guardian

"This series deserves the widest success: when finished, if this standard is maintained (and one has no reason to doubt it will be) then no finer accounts of these still neglected masterworks will have been offered to the public.” Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion

Orchestra of the Swan | conductor David Curtis

"Thoughtful and poignant… Donohoe’s directness brings dignity and power.” The Guardian

"One feels a profundity of thought behind these interpretations – a lifetime’s pondering, indeed." The Sunday Times

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BBC Symphony Orchestra | conductor Mark Elder

Released on 12 June 2026

Released on 15 August 2025

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"The performances…seem to be entirely worthy of the music, presenting all four works in the best possible light. The strings are forthright and closely integrated, with Peter Donohoe’s piano very much in the midst of that tight ensemble…much to enjoy…it’s a real gem"

Gramophone

Released on 20 September 2024

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"Donohoe’s reputation for such pianistic heavyweights as Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Prokofiev can obscure a brand of musical honesty that lends him authority across a much wider repertoire. This release is a reminder of this, focused on the outwardly lighter genre of the waltz but brimming with intelligent depth"

BBC Music Magazine

Released on 17 November 2023

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"Throughout, Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls"

BBC Music Magazine

"...surely only a dedicated ideologue would deny that Donohoe has here found a playing style that feels exactly right for the idiom of the music itself."

BBC Music Magazine

"Peter Donohoe revels in its manifold opportunities for virtuosic display, but also brings poetry and requisite tenderness to the beautifully lyrical writing in the slow movement."

BBC Music Magazine

"Donohoe invests this music with a real sense of pathos and world-weariness, extracting a wealth of startling colours and varied dynamics from his Bechstein piano."

"“It was high time someone blew the interpretative cobwebs off this still under-appreciated repertoire, and Donohoe’s clearly the person to do it.” BBC Music Magazine, Recording of the Month

"Donohoe treats these piano miniatures with the utmost sincerity…there is immense dignity in Donohoe’s directness." The Guardian

Royal Scottish National Orchestra | conductor Martin Yates

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