Peter Donohoe‘s latest album has been released on the SOMM Recordings label. The album couples Rachmaninoff – on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1873 – and Chopin. Exploring the intricate connections between the two composers, the first work on the album is Rachmaninoff’s Op.22 Variations on a Theme of Chopin. There follows Chopin’s Second Piano Sonata ()p.35) which is a work Rachmaninoff played at both his graduation recital in 1892 and his last public recital, six weeks before his death in 1943. The final work on the album is Chopin’s Third Piano Sonata (Op.58) – a work of exhilarating contrasts, intensity balanced by poetry, its high-Romantic style making formidable virtuosic demands of the piano.
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