{"id":580,"date":"2012-10-03T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=580"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:22:29","slug":"benjamin-grosvenor-scoops-the-critics-choice-award-for-his-debut-cd-at-the-classic-brits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Grosvenor scoops the Critics\u2019 Choice Award for his debut CD at the Classic Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Benjamin Grosvenor,<\/strong> the stellar 20-year-old pianist from Southend-on-sea, has won the Critics\u2019 Choice award for his debut Decca CD at the Classic Brits<\/strong> this evening. <\/strong>Grosvenor faced tough competition, being nominated alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra with B?lohl\u00e1vek <\/strong>and Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Last week, Grosvenor won the Young Artist of the Year and the Instrumental Category at the Gramophone Awards <\/strong>making a total of 3 awards in six days.<\/strong>On 31 October, Benjamin will make his Southbank Centre recital debut following a thrilling year. Last year he became the youngest British musician ever to sign to the Decca label, and the first British pianist to join the label in almost sixty years. His second album Rhapsody in Blue<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>was just released on Decca over the summer to rave reviews. Already this year Grosvenor was voted winner of an \u201cExceptional Young Talent\u201d Award in the UK\u2019s annual Critics\u2019 Circle Music Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cA champagne disc \u2013 fizz and finesse.\u201d \u2013 BBC Music Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n

His Gramophone and Classic Brit Award-winning debut CD was released to widespread critical acclaim in January 2012. BBC Music Magazine<\/em> gave it five stars and called it a \u201cstunning debut\u201d<\/strong>, adding that \u201cGrosvenor\u2019s playing exudes joy and spontaneity, seeming to release rather than to interpret the music. \u2026 At 19, Grosvenor is already a pianist of uncommon distinction\u201d.<\/strong> Classic FM Magazine<\/em> declared, in another five-star review that \u201cnot since John Ogdon exploded onto the scene fifty years ago has Britain produced such an astonishing young pianistic talent as Benjamin Grosvenor.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

On 31 October 2012, Benjamin Grosvenor will make his Southbank Centre recital debut.<\/strong> He has chosen to explore dance themes in the piano repertoire from Bach to Granados. The concert begins with Bach\u2019s Partita No.4 \u2013 a set of seven French dances for keyboard. The suite finishes with an enigmatic gigue in the unusual time signature of 9\/16, before concluding with a three-part fugue. Grosvenor then moves to two of Chopin\u2019s iconic polonaises \u2013 first the Tragic<\/em> in F# Minor dedicated to Princess Ludmilla de Beauveau and then the Andante spianato<\/em> and Grande Polonaise<\/em> brillante<\/em> in Eb Major. Grosvenor will perform a selection of Mazurkas and a Valse by Alexander Scriabin, a composer whose early work was heavily influenced by the music of Chopin, and will finish with Granados\u2019 Valses poeticos<\/em> and a virtuosic Concert arabesque based on themes from Johan Straus s\u2019 \u2018Blue Danube.\u2019<\/p>\n

Benjamin Grosvenor: Rhapsody in Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saint-Sa\u00ebns: Piano Concerto No. 2; \u201cThe Swan\u201d (transcr. Godowsky)<\/p>\n

Ravel:Piano Concerto in G major; Prelude in A minor<\/p>\n

Gershwin:Rhapsody in Blue<\/em> (original jazz band version, arr. Grof\u00e9); \u201cLove Walked In\u201d (transcr. Grainger)<\/p>\n

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra\/James Judd<\/p>\n

Label: Decca Classics\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cat No: 4783527<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Benjamin Grosvenor, the stellar 20-year-old pianist from Southend-on-sea, has won the Critics\u2019 Choice award for his debut Decca CD at the Classic Brits this evening. Grosvenor faced tough competition, being nominated alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra with B?lohl\u00e1vek and Sir … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}