Highly concentrated playing from Benjamin Grosvenor at the Drill Hall, Horsham

Por Hazel Rowland, 23 septiembre 2013

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Crítica hecha desde Drill Hall, Horsham el 21 septiembre 2013

Mendelssohn, Rondo Capriccioso in E major, Op.14

Schubert, Impromptu núm. 3 en sol bemol mayor, D.899

Schumann, Humoreske en si bemol mayor, Op.20

Mompou, Paisajes

Medtner, Two Fairy Tales

Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales, para orquesta

Liszt, Paraphrase on a Waltz from Gounod's "Faust", S 407

Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano

El des(a)tino en cinco notas

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 27th April

No hay que perderse la oportunidad de escuchar un programa como este a una gran orquesta, y menos aún si viene acompañado de dos jóvenes figuras que ya son grandes por méritos propios: Benjamin Grosvenor y Krzysztof Urbanski.

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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Grosvenor y Roth: una vitalidad expectante

Ramón del Buey Cañas, 8th February

François-Xavier Roth auspiciado por primera vez por Ibermúsica se presentó al frente de la Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, les acompañó el pianista Benjamin Grosvenor en el segundo concierto de Beethoven, el programa se completó con Livre de courdes de Boulez y el Concierto para orquesta de Bartók.

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Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor’s Beethoven

Nick Boston, 3rd February

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO’s blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

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Sinfonia of London makes international debut at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 25th November

British pianist Ben Grosvenor joins the Sinfonia of London in Amsterdam for Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto showcasing the very best of British talent

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Benjamin Grosvenor plays Pictures at an Exhibition at the Southbank

Roy Westbrook, 24th October

Benjamin Grosvenor tackles pianistic beasts by Chopin, Ravel and Mussorgsky in his Queen Elizabeth Hall recital.

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Nail-biting Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Dominic Lowe, 15th August

Before a searing performance of Shostakovich's Thirteenth from Ryan Bancroft and his Welsh forces, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers a terrific performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.

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Hazel Rowland

Hazel is in her final year reading music at Oxford University. As well being a classical music reviewer, she has written arts commentary for the Oxford Student and reviewed plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her particular interests lies in early German Romantic music and in how classical music functions within contemporary popular culture. Follow her blog here.