Bliss: Piano Concerto / Piano Sonata / Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

"Eager and polished performances that do Bliss absolutely proud. Peter Donohoe's ambitious British Piano Concerto project for Naxos brings us the work premièred by Solomon at the 1939 New York World Fair, the Piano Concerto (Sir Adrian Boult conducted the New York PO). It's a big, heart-on-sleeve work which mirrored Bliss's belief that the American people 'are the most romantic in the world'. The Piano Sonata, written for Noël Mewton-Wood (whose fine recording of the concerto has recently appeared on CD) shows Donohoe's skills off well."
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2004)

Grammy Award Nomination 2005 - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra)

"Naxos () gives us the most attractive of the several recordings of Sir Arthur Bliss's "grand and romantic" Piano Concerto, a series that began with Solomon and Adrian Boult, who performed the world premiere at the New York World's Fair of 1939. Peter Donohoe, David Lloyd-Jones, and the Scottish Orchestra match the virtuosity and penetrating insights of Solomon and Boult, while Naxos provides brilliant sound to equal the Unicorn-Kanchana digital recording by Philip Fowke and David Atherton."

"Played with the verve and scintillating accuracy by Peter Donohoe, It's never less than entertaining...Concerto for Two pianos is the most lively, attractive work on disc, full of quick, spiky wit and delight on colour, all well brought out by Donohoe, Martin Roscoe, orchestra and recording team." BBC Music

NOTE: Front cover has a very slight crease in one side. Fanfare