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Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9: A Bach Book For Harriet Cohen (2010)

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Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9: A Bach Book For Harriet Cohen (2010)

Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9: A Bach Book For Harriet Cohen (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 79:03 | 219 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67767

In 1931 the pianist and muse Harriet Cohen invited all her principal composer friends each to make an arrangement of a work by J S Bach for inclusion in an album to be published by Oxford University Press. Published as A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen, it is recorded here for the first time by virtuoso pianist Jonathan Plowright. The disc is completed by eight other 20th century British Bach transcriptions.

Jonathan Plowright - Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Piano Sonata Op. 21; Variations and Fugues Opp. 11 & 23 (2007)

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Jonathan Plowright - Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Piano Sonata Op. 21; Variations and Fugues Opp. 11 & 23 (2007)

Jonathan Plowright - Ignacy Jan Paderewski:
Piano Sonata Op. 21; Variations and Fugues Opp. 11 & 23 (2007)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 238 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 189 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67562 | Time: 01:19:56

Defining Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s musical personality inevitably sends commentators rushing for comparisons with influential predecessors and contemporaries: Chopin is usually in the lead, followed in short order by Liszt, Wagner and Rachmaninov. But at his best, and that is very much the case with the works recorded here, there is much more to Paderewski. Chopin may be clearly evident in the Piano Sonata of 1903, but a distinctive and distinguished melodic voice shines through in the slow movement and everywhere there is always a strong sense of forward momentum. The A minor Variations from the mid-1880s inhabit a very different world. A soulful, almost neo-Baroque theme sets the tone for wide-ranging figuration over which the spirit of Brahms hovers perceptibly. Although the E flat minor Variations were originally composed at much the same time, a major rewrite in 1903 gave them far greater scope and seriousness with much richer textures and a questing musical accent sometimes of quite modernist cut. In Jonathan Plowright these works have a near-ideal interpreter. Not only does he negotiate Paderewski’s dizzying virtuoso demands with evident ease, but also his ability to bring an almost string-like tone to the more lyrical passages constantly fascinates in this excellent recording.

Jonathan Plowright, Łukasz Borowicz - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 59: Żeleński & Zarzycki: Piano Concertos (2013)

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Jonathan Plowright, Łukasz Borowicz - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 59: Żeleński & Zarzycki: Piano Concertos (2013)

Jonathan Plowright, Łukasz Borowicz, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 59: Żeleński & Zarzycki: Piano Concertos (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 61:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67958 | Recorded: 2012

This 59th volume of the Romantic Piano Concerto series features Jonathan Plowright, whose brilliant and utterly idiomatic performances of Romantic Polish piano music have confirmed him as a master of this repertoire. Here he collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Lukasz Borowicz to perform three very obscure but fascinating works. The music of Zelenski has already been championed by Plowright in a disc of Polish chamber music; now he performs his Piano Concerto in E flat major, which was written in 1903 and dedicated to the young Ignacy Friedman, who gave the premiere the following year.

Jonathan Plowright, Christoph König - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 44: Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski: Piano Concertos (2008)

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Jonathan Plowright, Christoph König - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 44: Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski: Piano Concertos (2008)

Jonathan Plowright, Christoph König, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 44: Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski: Piano Concertos (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 66:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67630 | Recorded: 2007

Hyperion’s celebrated Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches volume 44. This disc includes two prize-winning concertos written in the 1890s by the Polish composer-pianist Henryk Melcer.

Jonathan Plowright - Johannes Brahms: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.3 (2016)

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Jonathan Plowright - Johannes Brahms: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.3 (2016)

Jonathan Plowright - Johannes Brahms: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.3 (2016)
Variations, Op.21 No.2; Piano Pieces, Opp.76 & 118; Waltzes, Op.39

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 217 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 186 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2127 | 01:21:20

GRAMOPHONE Magazine Editor's Choice - February 2016. Critical acclaim for Jonathan Plowright's two previous discs in his series of Brahms’s works for solo piano includes distinctions such as ‘10/10’ on the website Classics Today and top marks in Diapason as well as ‘Instrumental Choice of the Month’ in BBC Music Magazine. On his third disc Plowright presents the listener with two seemingly contradictory aspects of Johannes Brahms: the deeply serious, emotionally charged, but also meticulously constructed late Piano Pieces of Op. 118 and their precursor Op. 76 appear side by side with the unapologetic extroversion and scintillating verve of most (if not all) of the 16 Waltzes Op. 39, and the flamboyant Variations on a Hungarian Melody. Brahms’s fascination with Hungarian gypsy music stemmed from his friendship with the violinist Eduard Reményi, and found an outlet in several works, among which the Hungarian Dances are probably the most famous.

Jonathan Plowright, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 28: Zygmunt Stojowski: Piano Concerto (2002)

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Jonathan Plowright, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 28: Zygmunt Stojowski: Piano Concerto (2002)

Jonathan Plowright, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 28: Zygmunt Stojowski: Piano Concerto (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 275 Mb | Total time: 68:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67314 | Recorded: 2001

Stojowski was born and brought up in Poland though he later lived in Paris and finally became an American citizen. He was both virtuoso pianist and serious composer (he wrote a symphony and violin concerto as well as music for his own instrument) and his initial career was full of promise. Unfortunately for his later reputation his style was that of a previous generation and in the 20th century his music was viewed as increasingly dated. One hundred years later this hardly matters and on this CD we find works steeped in the language of Tchaikovsky and Grieg, perhaps with a hint of Saint-Saëns and the almost sentimental lyricism of Paderewski (ten years Stojowski's senior, Paderewski was both teacher and friend to the younger composer, the second concerto was dedicated to, and played by him).

Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 6: Walter Rummel (2006)

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Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 6: Walter Rummel (2006)

Jonathan Plowright - Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 6: Walter Rummel (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:13:24 | 445 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: 67481

In an age when even big-name soloists are trying their hands at historical-performance techniques, it's worthwhile to splash water on one's face from time to time and revisit the era when Bach's music served many performers simply as a stimulus to further creative activity. The piano transcriptions of Bach's music on this two-disc set are by Walter Rummel, a British-American pianist and composer of the interwar era whose mother was the daughter of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph.