from Paderewski: Piano Sonata & Variations (CDA67562) 1 Allegro con fuoco [14'50] 34 minutes 35 seconds 3 tracks2 Andante ma non troppo [10'42] 3 Allegro vivace [9'03] ‘Jonathan Plowright shines a powerful light on Paderewski … you have a pianist clearly in love with every bar of Paderewski's romantic rhetoric and it would be hard to imagine playing of greater ... ‘A distinctive and distinguished melodic voice shines through … everywhere there is always a strong sense of forward momentum … in Jonathan Plowright these works have a near-ideal interprete ... ‘It's all dense music, highly wrought, and Jonathan Plowright plays it quite superbly, with an enviable range of keyboard colour’ (The Guardian) |