Photo: Marco Borggreve
2024
"Grosvenor made effulgent, sometimes hypnotic, work of the concerto’s spades of notes. His tone was golden with articulations impeccably voiced … A display of pianism of the first order"
Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical Review
Grieg Piano Concerto/Boston Symphony/Andris Nelsons
"[Grosvenor] played with flair and precision, on a refulgent, warmhearted reading of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor”
Kevin Wells, Bachtrack
Boston Symphony/Andris Nelsons
" The youthful work was a tour de force for Benjamin Grosvenor, a pianist at the height of his musical powers ... In his interpretation, he optimized both the technical and interpretative aspects of the piece so brilliantly as to seem a magician of the keyboard"
Erica Miner, Broadway World
Britten Piano Concerto, Seattle Symphony/Nicholas Carter
"a five-star display of exhilarating musicianship"
Geoff Brown, The Times ★★★★★
Piano quartets, Queen Elizabeth Hall
"Grosvenor makes an ideal chamber music pianist, always present, but restraining any temptation to dominate"
Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
Piano quartets, Queen Elizabeth Hall
“A five-star Prom from a miraculous soloist … Grosvenor was the champion this kaleidoscopic piece needs”
Daniel Lewis, The Times ★★★★★
Busoni Concerto/LPO/Gardner BBC Proms
“Benjamin Grosvenor dominated with discombobulating virtuosity”
David Nice, The Arts Desk ★★★★★
Busoni Concerto/LPO/Gardner BBC Proms
“Grosvenor’s playing [in the Busoni] was breathtaking; fearless where nerves of steel were required, majestic where pomp and ceremony held sway, dark and brooding where the score alights on the banks of the Styx”
Christopher Woodley, Bachtrack
BBC Proms
'Ecstasy at the piano: the British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor was exactly the right man... his playing was characterised by a powerful, gripping style, and he mastered the scales and leaps with breathtaking precision.'
General-Anzeiger Bonn, April 2024
‘One can only bow before what emanates from Benjamin Grosvenor’s playing’
Classic Toulouse, April 2024
‘What an art Grosvenor has of making the keys respond to each other’
***** Alain Lompech, Bachtrack, Paris March 2024
‘Monumental and brilliant’
Tagesspiegel, Berlin February 2024