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PETER DONOHOE

Mozart Sonatas Vol 6 Somm SOMMCD0660

The sixth and final volume of Peter Donohoe’s survey of Mozart Sonatas for Somm is intimately recorded and captures affectionate, expressive and classically crisp accounts of three sonatas. They include the K545, the one that is suggested as being relatively straightforward to master technically. Well, I didn’t find it so; however, Donohoe plays it with ease but never glibness, in a delightful reading – rather puckish in the final movement. K282’s opening Adagio goes deeper, for which Donohoe sets a spacious tempo, following it with a dancing Minuet & Trio and

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