Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor

Dances
Format
Audio
Published
8 August 2014
ISBN
0028947853343

Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor

Dances is a dazzling display of solo works for piano from Bach to Boogie Woogie; via Chopin, Granados, Albeniz, Scriabin and the Blue Danube.

For his second solo album on Decca, Benjamin Grosvenor has assembled a typically imaginative and appealing programme of piano music inspired by the dance form.

Shining the spotlight on the music of movement, this album was inspired by a letter from the great pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni to his pupil Egon Petri proposing a “dance programme” as a theme for Petri’s recitals, a concept Grosvenor expanded on for his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut recital in 2012.

A former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, Grosvenor will appearing at two BBC Proms in 2014 with a performance of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (8th August), followed by a solo recital at Cadogan Hall (1st September). In 2011, he was awarded the honour of opening the BBC Proms Concerts season and was the youngest-ever soloist to perform on the ‘First Night’.

Track listing:

Albéniz: Tango (No. 2 from Espana, Op. 165)

Bach, J S: Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV828

Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op. 22

Gould, M: Boogie Woogie Etude

Granados: Valses Poeticos (7)

Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on themes from ‘The Beautiful Blue Danube’

Scriabin:

Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 6

Mazurka in E, Op. 3 No. 4

Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 9

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