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« on: 17:02:01, 29-02-2008 » |
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Anyone have firm views about this week's Artist Focus?
I have to admit I am not a fan of Peter Donohoe and would be interested in hear some thoughts on this week performances from PD's admirers.
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Ted Ryder
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« Reply #1 on: 08:10:18, 01-03-2008 » |
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Eh, I'll take that as a no then.  |
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« Reply #2 on: 08:24:13, 01-03-2008 » |
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I,too, was hoping to learn something here since I have friends who rate his recording of the Busoni Piano Concerto.
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« Reply #3 on: 12:18:18, 01-03-2008 » |
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I like Peter Donohoe. I don't know his recordings and didn't hear Artist Focus but I've heard him play live on many occasions - as he's local, he plays a lot in Birmingham. The most recent time was 21 Feb when he performed in Bartok's Contrasts and Bridge's Piano Quintet at the CBSO Centre, a very enjoyable concert.
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« Reply #4 on: 13:44:33, 03-03-2008 » |
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I can't say I know much about Peter Donohoe but it's good that he's introduced us to, inter alia, a good sprinkling of the Litolff concerti symphonique. How he gets his fingers round all the notes of the famous scherzo from no 4 at the tempo chosen for his recording is a miracle.
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« Reply #5 on: 20:48:10, 03-03-2008 » |
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Pleasant surprise for me was the Kevin Volans Concerto for Piano and Winds- the solo part isnt particularly virtuosic, more sort of extempore continuo as I recall but it needs an individual voice
and I thought he gave it one, which suggests to me that he thinks from within the score. Best thing Volans has done by a long chalk imho.
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« Reply #6 on: 07:02:47, 04-03-2008 » |
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I have a good number of his recordings, though sadly have never heard him live. He is doing excellent work on behalf of neglected British piano concertos. His recording of the Gerhard is quite riveting, also that of the Foulds Dynamic triptych. As for more standard repertoire, his Bartok concertos with Rattle are very well worth hearing.
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« Reply #7 on: 16:39:15, 17-05-2008 » |
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Ted, I have enjoyed several of Peter Donohoe's recordings over the years (notably Tchaikovsky's 2nd PC, the Litolff PCs 2 & 4 and the Rawsthorne PCs), but saw him live for the first time just last night. He gave a very enjoyable recital to a somewhat disappointing audience at Cadogan Hall in London, comprising Bach/Busoni, Brahms (3rd sonata), Chopin (ballade) and Liszt (sonata). Making the most of a big technique, slightly splashy occasionally but undeniably exciting, he really played through the piano to obtain a huge sound in the Bach/Busoni and parts of the Liszt especially, but a wide range of tone throughout the programme. I thought he played the demanding programme with real commitment and integrity and would certainly try to see him again.
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Ted Ryder
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« Reply #8 on: 08:15:24, 21-05-2008 » |
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Romill, I also heard PD play the Brahms and the Liszt sonatas in the same programme a decade or so ago! It was my disappointment with the Brahms -which I found far from exciting- that prompted me to listen to Artist Focus as I hadn't (knowingly) heard Peter Donohoe play since then.Being rather under whelmed by the broadcast, I posted my original message to fine out how others regarded Donohoe's playing. My opinion is obviously a minority one and I am pleased that others get so much pleasure from his performances.
I don't know what I did when I posted my message this morning. It was a little short!
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« Reply #9 on: 18:34:26, 21-05-2008 » |
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Sad to say, the only recordings I have of his are the Litolff concerto recordings on Hyperion and they are superb.
I missed the programme as well so can't really help...
(Note to self: need to buy more CDs...)
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« Reply #10 on: 19:57:24, 21-05-2008 » |
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I am afraid that I have heard too little from him, he seems an unfashionable artist for some unfathomable reason given his extraordinary pedigree and achievements. Perhaps he spends a deal of time teaching or playing overseas, whatever the reason I do hope that we get to hear more of him in broadcast recital and concert. Such an artist is welcome in my neck of the woods - East Anglia - at any time he chooses.
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« Reply #11 on: 21:38:23, 26-08-2008 » |
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I haven't listened to the programme so this could well have been mentioned - but there is an account of what happened to Peter Donohoe when his record company made a disastrous error of judgment in trying to repackage and market him in the 1980s at the start of Chapter 10 of Norman Lebrecht's "When the Music Stops". He is not named in the book, but it is a sad story. He carried on to build his solid career, but "his moment had passed", as Lebrecht puts it. I have seen him once only, a programme of Tippett and Chopin [sic] in the late 1980's in Belfast.
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