Donohoe Mozart

SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe nears its end with Volume 5 featuring three works from very different periods of the composer’s life. The earliest Sonata, No.3 in B-flat major, K281, from 1775, shows the 18-yearold composer in effervescent mood, nimbly drawing on French and Italian influences, with a cadenza composed by Donohoe for its Rondo finale.

Volume 4 of Peter Donohoe’s acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas on SOMM Recordings focuses on the composer’s adoption of the newly emerging pianoforte and his bold exploitation of its more sophisticated voicing.

SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe reaches its end with Volume 6 featuring four works illustrating the composer’s endless fascination and creative invention with the piano.

The much anticipated second volume of Peter Donohoe’s complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas for SOMM Recordings focuses on three sonatas produced during the composer’s ill-fated journey to Paris in 1777.

"The third volume of Peter Donohoe’s acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas for SOMM Recordings focuses on three works from the second half of the 1780s – including his last exercise in the form, Sonata No.18 (K576) – together with two exquisite miniatures.

SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major new series surveying Mozart s complete Piano Sonatas featuring the acclaimed lion of the keyboard Peter Donohoe in his highly-anticipated first-ever recordings of the composer s solo piano works. The landmark six-volume series launches with two early Sonatas Nos.2 (K280) and 6 (K284) and a later masterpiece No.17 (K570), the first composed when Mozart was 18 in 1774, the last, described by Alfred Einstein as the ideal of the composer s sonatas, in 1789 at the age of 33. Mozart s 19 Piano Sonatas, as music critic Christopher Morley comments in his booklet notes, cover so much of his short life… and a huge range of styles and genres, from quasi-concertos without orchestra to simple study pieces…

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a stunning new solo piano recital from label veteran Peter Donohoe following his recent acclaimed coupling of Chopin’s Second and Third Sonatas with Rachmaninoff’s Chopin Variations, over which BBC Music Magazine’s Rebecca Franks enthused,“Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls.” Now the pianist revisits Chopin in the genre for which the composer is arguably best known and loved: the waltz.

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a stunning new solo piano recital from label veteran Peter Donohoe following his recent acclaimed coupling of Chopin’s Second and Third Sonatas with Rachmaninoff’s Chopin Variations, over which BBC Music Magazine’s Rebecca Franks enthused,“Donohoe’s approach has a robust honesty and an appealing straightforward feel, with an instinct for the emotional rises and falls.” Now the pianist revisits Chopin in the genre for which the composer is arguably best known and loved: the waltz.