“…a formidable technician and a thoughtful, coolly assured interpreter.”
“…a skill and talent not heard since Kissin’s teenage Russian debut.”
“Grosvenor’s performance was so alluring, so alive to the music’s poetry, so colourfully detailed.”
“Grosvenor commands an expressive specificity that’s rare among pianists in any age group.”
“Ability to twin youthful exuberance with impeccable technique and magisterial musical intelligence.”
“An intellectual and emotional understanding of the music way beyond his tender years.”
“Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto also gave us star glitter and subtle musicianship, in the form of the British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor… Listening to Grosvenor, age seemed beside the point. What mattered was the clarity and poetry of his panache, the airy grace of his arpeggios, the lack of flash buckles and bows.”
Geoff Brown, The Times, July 2011
