Danny Driver
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With their exhilarating brilliance and mesmerising beauty, these pieces have captured the imagination of players and audiences alike...These works are here to stay, in the distinguished line... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 70 - Beach, Chaminade & Howell
RecommendedBeach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller
Pick of the bunch is the Concerto by Amy Beach…Danny Driver is a highly accomplished soloist, if occasionally lacking in Romantic flexibility; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Rebecca... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Danny Driver, whose debut on Hyperion was an acclaimed recording of Bowen's Third and Fourth piano concertos, is the ideal advocate for this glorious music, playing with razor-sharp articulation... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Instrumental Choice
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If you want to hear these pieces played on a sleek grand piano using an engagingly post-historical approach, with flawlessly stylish ornamentation...and a variety of dynamic nuances...then look... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Erik Chisholm: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald
Chisholm was himself a formidable pianist, and both Concertos teem with the kind of brilliant bravura keyboard writing that is meat and drink to Driver. The orchestration is colourfully, but... —
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Driver revels in Emanuel's idiosyncrasies, underlining the spontaneous and edgier qualities in the composer's Empfindsamer stil (sensitive style). —
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Danny Driver's stylish and immaculate playing makes an outstanding case for some technically demanding music. One for English music aficionados. —
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Danny Driver...makes his superlative case for music that is as inventive as it is unsettling. Playing with imperturbable authority, he captures all the mercurial fits and starts of the G minor... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Brian Elias: Music For Strings
Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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