Liszt: Benjamin Grosvenor plays Liszt

Benjamin Grosvenor's Liszt album starts boldly with the Sonata in B minor, widely considered the pinnacle of late romantic piano literature, and also includes the three 'Petrarch Sonnets' and the epic fantasy on Bellini's Norma before concluding on a quieter note with Liszt's enchanting transcription of the Schubert Ave Maria.

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‘An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a gift for fusing both architecture and passion. Benjam ...
‘Benjamin Grosvenor conjures a brand of full and rounded keyboard sonority different from that of many of his contemporaries, and recalls the giants of an earlier generation’ (BBC Music Magazine)