Special Features
Forthcoming and previous highlights
Savannah Music Festival 2026
The Savannah Music Festival is a dazzling celebration of musical diversity and artistry hailed as “one of the gleaming musical treasures of the Southeast of America
Philip Dukes with Peter Donohoe
Brahms and Schumann - CHANDOS
‘ Philip Dukes’s love of this music is everywhere apparent in his affectionate performances….’ - BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
‘Dukes’s powerful tone, with its mixture of sweetness and sinew reminds me of William Primrose and he puts it to good use in the surging phrases of the F minor Sonata’s opening Allegro appassionato. The chiselled clarity of Peter Donohoe’s playing proves an excellent foil for Dukes’s robust lyricism, and where Brahms’s syncopations threaten to throw the piano part off course, Donohoe’s firm grip turns these few bars into a brief adrenaline rush.
In the E flat major Sonata there are exquisite moments – the final pages of the Second Sonata are ravishing – and with a fist-clenched account of the Scherzo from the FAE Sonata and the reading of Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro this has all the warmth and ardour one could wish for….’ - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
Elegy
National Symphony Orchestra
“ Elegy ,” performed by Philip Dukes with the National Symphony Orchestra, is a deeply poetic and luminous recording and is described by Quartz Music as “infused with something of the ethereal, the timeless, and the indefinable.”
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Rebecca Clarke
“Both technically and musically, these are exceptional performances, with Philip Dukes producing the most alluring sound throughout the register.” - The Strad
