MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto in G major (with Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No 2)

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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto in G major (with Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No 2)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

[ Decca Music Group / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 16 August 2012

Nineteen year old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is internationally recognized for his electrifying performances and penetrating interpretations.

GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Concerto

"in an age of ready-made virtuosos, his gifts are already distinctive - poetic, romantic, almost old-school in the way he makes phrases teeter on the edge of a pause or when one hand hesitates before the other in laying down a texture...Grosvenor's rendition of the Rhapsody is definitely European, warmly sensuous rather than American pizzazz." (The Times)

"reservations pale into Beckmesserish scratchings besides the delights of this disc and especially of Grosvenor's pianism. I can only concur with other critics who hear in his tone and phrasing echoes of a golden age...For me, his playing of the Godowsky version of Saint-Saens's Swan is a high point...A champagne disc - fizz and finesse." (BBC Music)

"he opens [the Saint-Saens] with a rhetorical grandeur before setting the keyboard ablaze with a burst of swaggering, supercharged virtuosity...He has technique to burn and his pungency and force are things to marvel at...Grosvenor's Ravel brims over with individual touches...while in Gershwin his virtuosity is once more exultant rather than brash...Grosvenor's is, at the least, a talent in a thousand." (Gramophone)

Tracks:

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
Love Walked In

Ravel:
Piano Concerto in G major
Prélude

Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne