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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Proms Chamber Music

BBC Proms: 2014: Proms Chamber Music: Part 7: PCM 07 - Benjamin Grosvenor

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Part 7 Part 7: PCM 07 - Benjamin Grosvenor

2014

PCM 07 - Benjamin Grosvenor

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Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) plays music by Chopin, Mompou, Weir and Gounod at Cadogan Hall.

Piano recital by Benjamin Grosvenor. Chopin: Ballade No 1. Mompou: Paisajes. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales. Weir: Day Break Shadows Flee. Gounod arr Liszt: Waltz (Faust).

Benjamin Grosvenor at the BBC Proms in music by Chopin, Judith Weir and Ravel

From the Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Mompou: Paisajes
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Judith Weir: Day Break Shadows Flee [BBC Commission. World Premiere]
Gounod arr. Liszt: Waltz from 'Faust'

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

He may only just have turned 22, but pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is already a Proms regular. The 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's 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's new commission, written specially for Grosvenor.


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BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Proms Chamber Music

Proms Chamber Music

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall in London

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