Brahms: Works for Solo Piano

This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet, the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

His warmth and sincerity combine with a superbly assured and powerful technique to create one of the finest performances [of the F minor Sonata] on record...His Handel Variations, too, are subtly... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

Plowright’s Brahms could easily be described as rugged: thunderclouds often loom and there are few moments of brighter outlook along the way…dark Brahms, then, but Plowright’s powerful, uncompromising... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…