Peter Donohoe
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Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
RecommendedSymphony No. 2 - Piano Concerto - Concerto For Large Symphony Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Grażyna Bacewicz is a composer with purpose and drive...That's the impression left, as so often with her works, by the music on this latest album, performed with equal sense of mission by the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th July 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto & Symphony
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
[The Piano Concerto] boasts attractive melodies, warmly lush orchestration and technically demanding piano writing. Peter Donohoe revels in its manifold opportunities for virtuosic display,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Donohoe, with a devotion to Grieg’s music dating back to his early years, clearly has the measure of this repertoire. He gets inside the gentler pieces, such as ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Summer Evening’,... —
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Donohoe, while never underplaying the Sonata’s moments of explosive rhetoric, finds a more poetic, Chopinesque poise…Instead of being rushed off its feet, the final possesses a glorious, Lisztian... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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The humour that is so integral to Haydn emerges naturally from the music itself; Donohoe knows that in these sonatas and caprices, a sly wink is far more effective than mugging for the microphone. —
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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... —
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Busoni: Toccata, BV 287, Elegien, BV 252, Sonatina No. 6, BV 284 & Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major, BV B 29 No. 1
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano)
if some of the works here make uncomfortable listening – despite Donohoe’s keyboard brilliance – that is because Busoni himself disdained aural comfort...But the Toccata BV 29, being a transcription... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 26 - Litolff
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Litolff's dauntingly ambitious structures accommodate every possible style, looking forwards and backwards Janus-style, yet reaching out in the strange almost Alkanesque oddity of the Fifth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2001, Editor's Choice
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