Peter Donohoe

Released on 17 November 2023

"...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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"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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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