On this album, CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonatas II, Danny Driver is intimately in touch with the fluctuations of the musical language, writes Geoffrey Norris in the UK's Daily Telegraph.
Following recent collaborations in concert and in the recording studio, Danny Driver and violinist Chloë Hanslip were featured on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' on Friday 26th October.
'A brilliant account of the Piano Concerto No. 5 left you wondering why this piece is not standard repertory', wrote Steve Smith in the New York Times of Danny Driver's performance with the American Symphony Orchestra under conductor Leon Botstein at this year's Bard Music Festival.
Watch and listen to Danny Driver's performance of Franz Reizenstein's Concerto Popolare at the Comedy Prom on BBC2, Saturday August 27th, from 9pm onwards!
On July 15th Danny Driver was featured on BBC Radio 3's special Proms edition of 'In Tune', broadcast live from the Royal College of Music. He performed solo C P E Bach and joined violinist Chloe Hanslip for Ravel's Violin Sonata. He had also played Debussy live on BBC Radio 3 the night before as part of a Proms season preview on 'Performance on Three'.
Danny Driver will be recording the two piano concertos of Scottish composer Erik Chisholm this week, together with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rory Macdonald.