Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Benjamin Grosvenor’s very British class shines in the art of the sonata.
Dates
Mozart Sonata No. 13 K. 333
Beethoven Sonata No.14 Op. 27 No.2 « Moonlight »
Liszt Petrarch’s Sonnets (excerpts from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 2 – Italy)
Chopin Sonata No. 2 « Funeral March »
About
His previous performance of Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 on the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées caused quite a stir! “It takes a few moments to recover one’s composure, time to realise that the twenty or so minutes of this Sonata in B flat minor were a journey into another temporal dimension, where the pianist transformed this work into a great piece with broadened horizons,” wrote the astonished musicologist Alain Lompech. While record collectors will recall that his recording of Petrarch’s Sonnets for Decca earned him a Diapason d’Or award at the start of the decade, Parisians will discover how Benjamin Grosvenor approaches Mozart’s Linz and Beethoven’s Moonlight. Not to be missed.
Jeanine Roze Production