Jonathan Plowright
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This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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[Zarebski] wrote [his Piano Quintet] in the year of his premature death, dedicating it to his teacher Liszt, and the virtuosity that implies is caught here in a performance of passionate warmth...Again,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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His warmth and sincerity combine with a superbly assured and powerful technique to create one of the finest performances [of the F minor Sonata] on record...His Handel Variations, too, are subtly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 83 - Gablenz: Piano Concerto & Paderewski: Polish Fantasy
Jonathan Plowright (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
Plowright makes the best possible case for [the Gablenz] in partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz, a champion of neglected Polish music...Paderewski’s Polish... —
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Superb playing is matched by fine engineering in the atmospheric acoustic of Potton Hall. Greatly recommended – you won't regret it. —
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A distinctive and distinguished melodic voice shines through … everywhere there is always a strong sense of forward momentum … in Jonathan Plowright these works have a near-ideal interpreter.... —
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Plowright is used to handling weightier tomes, having recently released the fifth instalment of his ongoing Brahms solo works series (also Hyperion), but he is a master of melodies. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet,... —
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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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