Proms Chamber Music 7: Benjamin Grosvenor

1 Sep 2014, Cadogan Hall

13:00 Mon 1 Sep 2014 Next Event

Proms 2014 Proms Chamber Music 7: Benjamin Grosvenor

13:00 Mon 1 Sep 2014 Cadogan Hall

The young British pianist performs a programme with a dance theme pulsing through it. Chopin鈥檚 stately Ballade No. 1 gives way to the dizzying virtuosity of Ravel鈥檚 Valses nobles et sentimentales, before the waltz returns, transfigured, in Liszt鈥檚 Waltz from 鈥楩aust鈥�. Mompou鈥檚 Paisajes transports us to Barcelona, and Grosvenor also premieres a new work by Judith Weir.

Programme

- - Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
  - Ballade No. 1 in G minor(9 mins)
- - Federico Mompou
  - Paisajes(11 mins)
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Valses nobles et sentimentales (solo piano version)(14 mins)
- - Judith Weir
  - Day Break Shadows Flee(12 mins)大象传媒 commission: world premiere
- - Franz Liszt
  - Waltz from 'Faust' (arr. Liszt)(10 mins)

Performers

Benjamin Grosvenor
piano
piano

Composers

About this event

He may only just have turned 22, but pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is already a Proms regular. 鈥═he precocious British pianist returns for his first Proms Chamber Music concert, performing a mixed programme with a dance theme pulsing through it.

He explores the waltz from the contrasting perspectives of Ravel and Liszt, exchanging bladed impressionism for dizzying virtuosity, while Mompou鈥檚 Paisajes transports us to Barcelona, offering an evocative vision of a city from which the composer had been distanced for many years.

The contrast of nocturnal scurrying and warm radiance suggested the title for Judith Weir鈥檚 new commission, written specially for Grosvenor.

There will be no interval

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