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Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade no.1 in G minor, Op.23
Federico Mompou – Paisajes
Maurice Ravel – Valses Nobles et sentimentales for piano
Judith Weir – Day Break Shadows Flee
Charles Gounod – Faust: Waltz (arr. Liszt)
Performers
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano
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Programme Note
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 Mompous 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 Weirs new commission, written specially for Grosvenor.