Benjamin concluded his 5-week North America tour this week with two performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony.
This followed two weeks of recitals and performances of Britten's Piano Concerto with the Utah and Seattle Symphony Orchestras.
Review of Seattle Symphony / Britten Piano Concerto
Erica Miner, Broadway World
" 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"
Reviews of BSO / Andris Nelsons / Grieg Piano Concerto:
Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical Review
"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"
Kevin Wells, Bachtrack
"[Grosvenor] played with flair and precision, on a refulgent, warmhearted reading of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor”