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Preorder Benjamin's new album on Decca Classics: https://lnk.to/GrosvenorChopin1ID
Set for release on 21st Feb 2020, the album features Chopin Piano Concertos 1 and 2.
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As featured in Benjamin's blog for Gramophone Magazine: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/gramophone-guest-blog/benjamin-grosvenor-on-the-joy-of-learning-a-new-work-by-judith-weir

For his second solo album on Decca, Benjamin Grosvenor has assembled a typically imaginative and appealing programme of piano music inspired by the dance form.
Dances is a dazzling display of solo works for piano from Bach to Boogie Woogie; via Chopin, Granados, Albeniz, Scriabin and the Blue Danube.
Shining the spotlight on the music of movement, this album was inspired by a letter from the great pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni to his pupil Egon Petri proposing a “dance programme” as a theme for Petri’s recitals, a concept Grosvenor expanded on for his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut recital in 2012.

A former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, Grosvenor will appearing at two BBC Proms in 2014 with a performance of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (8th August), followed by a solo recital at Cadogan Hall (1st Sep). In 2011, he was awarded the honour of opening the BBC Proms Concerts season and the youngest-ever soloist to perform on the ‘First Night’.