| 1. Tracklist |
| 2. 01. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Theme - Vars. 1-10 |
| 3. 02. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Vars. 11-14 |
| 4. 03. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Vars. 15-18 |
| 5. 04. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Vars. 19-21 |
| 6. 05. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22: Var. 22 |
| 7. 06. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128: I. Grave - Doppio movimento |
| 8. 07. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128: II. Scherzo |
| 9. 08. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128: III. Marche funèbre. Lento |
| 10. 09. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128: IV. Finale. Presto |
| 11. 10. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, B. 155: I. Allegro maestoso |
| 12. 11. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, B. 155: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace |
| 13. 12. Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, B. 155: III. Largo |
| 14. SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce the return of pianist to the label following his acclaimed complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas with a dazzling new recital coupling Rachmaninoff – on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1873 – and Chopin |
| 15. “Rachmaninoff is unimaginable without Chopin,” asserts Russian music expert Marina Frolova-Walker in authoritative booklet notes that point to Rachmaninoff’s long engagement with Chopin’s music in the concert hall and recording studio |
| 16. Donohoe’s recital explores the intricate connections between the two composers, beginning with Rachmaninoff’s Op.22 Variations on a Theme of Chopin. They embrace “a broad array of styles and genres, in a kind of theatrical quick-change routine that leaves us marvelling at the extreme contrasts in music that still embraces the same theme” |
| 17. A work Rachmaninoff played at both his graduation recital in 1892 and his last public recital, six weeks before his death in 1943, Chopin’s Second Piano Sonata boasts a lowering funeral march and a groundbreaking finale |
| 18. Chopin’s Third Piano Sonata is a work of exhilarating contrasts, intensity balanced by poetry, its high-Romantic style making formidable virtuosic demands of the piano |
| 19. ’s previous SOMM releases include the widely-praised six- volume set of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas. Musical Opinion declared of Volume 1 “no finer accounts of these still neglected masterpieces will have been offered to the public”. BBC Music Magazine’s five-star review of Volume 6 hailed Donohoe for finding “a playing style that feels exactly right” |
| 20. His other discs include Stravinsky’s Music for Solo Piano and Piano and Orchestra with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and David Atherton , “a splendid and engrossing issue” , and Scriabin’s Complete Piano Sonatas , The Guardian praising Donohoe as “a masterly guide, his playing both unearthly and earthy” |
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