Name: Chopin & Bartók with Benjamin Grosvenor
Start: 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Joana Carneiro

Pianist

Benjamin Grosvenor

Piano

Southbank Centre

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Chopin & Bartók with Benjamin Grosvenor

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Chopin and Bartók with Benjamin Grosvenor: This Midnight Hour (+2 More)

Public

Concert

This Midnight Hour

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11

Concerto for Orchestra in F Minor, Sz. 116, BB 123

Approved

South Bank Centre

Anna Clyne’s inspiration for This Midnight Hour came from two poems – Baudelaire’s describes a heady evening where ‘sounds and perfumes swirl in the evening air’, and Jiménez’s pictures Music as a woman running through the night.

It’s an apt companion to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra – every member of the Philharmonia has their moment in the spotlight in this work fizzing with imagination.

It’s hard to believe Bartók was in hospital in the early stages of his final illness when he accepted this commission, his music is so full of energy and life.

Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 comes from a different place entirely – the virtuosity the young composer-pianist wanted to showcase was his own.

Tonight his sparkling heart-on-sleeve melodies are in the hands of electrifying British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.

Grosvenor’s 2020 recording of the Chopin Piano Concertos won both a Gramophone Concerto Award and a Diapason D’Or de l’Année, with Diapason declaring it ‘confirmation of an extraordinary artist.’

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer