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Peter Donohoe's Recital at the Hall for Cornwall

And so to Peter Donohoe's recital at the Hall for Cornwall on Thursday 5th November.  A concert this writer has been looking forward to as he has neither heard Donohue live before and it is rare for HfC to host such a leading musician in solo recital.  He was not disappointed Donohue is a musician who has much to share and is generous but not effusive. His programme Mozart Piano Sonata in A Major K.331 Schubert Four Impromptus D.899 Interval Schumann Abegg Variations Skryabin Piano Sonata No 2 in G sharp Minor (Sonata-Fantasie) Op.19 Mendelssohn  Andante And Rondo Capriccioso Op 14 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor G244 The choice of works (all of which bar the Skryabin were played from memory) popular but not exactly profound.  On the face of it some crowd pleasers, a safe if little known early twentieth century work and some demonstrable  pianistic show stoppers.   Most pieces were short (which I know at least one audience member found to his taste) but