Peter Donohoe
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Peter Donohoe, the British pianist who won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, has pursued a career as a concert pianist that has been marked by eclecticism across styles and periods. Born in Manchester on June 18, 1953, he studied violin, viola, clarinet and tuba at Chetham's School of Music and auditioned for the piano class at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he was Derek Wyndham's youngest pupil. After graduating in 1975 with a degree in piano and percussion, having studied with Alexander Goehr at Leeds University, Peter Donohoe was hired as percussionist by the BBC Symphonic Orchestra, among other collaborations with English orchestras. Nevertheless, he never abandoned the piano, continuing his training with Yvonne Loriod and Olivier Messiaen in Paris, Vlado Perlemuter and Charles Rosen at the Royal Northern College of Music and Zoltan Kocsis in Budapest. This solid training prepared the pianist for the 1982 Moscow Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, where he won second prize. He went on to develop his Russian repertoire with recordings of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky for EMI in the 1980s. From 1984 to 1987, Peter Donohoe was appointed conductor of the Northern Chamber Orchestra, before founding The Orchestra of the Mill (1987-1993). His seminal encounter with Simon Rattle in 1974 led to a recording of works by Messiaen in 1987 and Bartók's three piano concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1993), followed by further collaborations. Numerous recordings followed, including major works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and the complete Mozart piano sonatas in six volumes (2018-2023), as well as albums devoted to little-known British composers such as Litolff, Volans, Walton, Finzi, Bliss, Alwyn, Tippett, Harty and Alan Bush, not forgetting chamber music by Edward Elgar. He also records the ten piano sonatas by Prokofiev and Scriabin, Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues (2017), and in 2024, a volume of Albéniz's twoIberia books and the first book of Granados' Goyescas.
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- Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz.119: Allegro vivace featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz.83: Andante featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Première tableau: Fête populaire de la semaine gra featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Troisième tableau: Chez le maure - Danse de la bal featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Quartième tableau: Polic et 'enchanteur - Vociféra featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Quartième tableau: Danse des cochers et des palefr featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Quartième tableau: Le rixe: La maure et Petrushka featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz.83: Allegro moderato - Allegro - Allegro moderato featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Turangalila I featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Final featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Piano Concerto No. 2, Sz.95: Allegro featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Introduction featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Jardin du sommiel d'amour featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Deuxième tableau: Chez Petrushka featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Developpement de l'amour featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Chant d'amour I featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Turangalila Symphony: Joie du sang des etoiles featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Scottish Ballad Op. 26 featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- George Gershwin's Song-Book: The man I love
- George Gershwin's Song-Book: Somebody loves me
- Piano Quintet, A minor, Op. 84 - Adagio
- Piano Quintet, A minor, Op. 84 - Andante-Allegro
- Piano Quintet, A minor, Op. 84 - Moderato
- Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra Op. 21: Var.IX Toccata I - Toccata II featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
