Daniel Grimwood In Recital: Rarities Of Russian Piano Music

Daniel Grimwood In Recital: Rarities Of Russian Piano Music

Daniel Grimwood’s interest in Russian music was awakened in his childhood through his friendship with the scholar Richard Beattie Davis, who introduced him to the music of Blumenfeld, Glazunov, and also Henselt, the great German composer, pianist and teacher who made Russia his home. Daniel’s own concerts, recordings and teaching reflect this friendship, and he has continued Davis’s work generating interest in the music of Henselt and the effect it had on generations of Russian composers and pianists to follow.

Programme:

Field Sonata no. 1; Nocturne no 6
Glinka Nocturne
Henselt ‘Vie orageuse’, Op. 2 no. 5, ‘Danklied Nach Sturm’, Op. 5 no. 6, ‘Plein de soupirs, de souvenirs…’, Op. 2 no. 12
Balakirev Au jardin
Blumenfeld Nocturne-Fantasie, Op. 20
Glazunov Three Etudes, Op. 31
Pabst Paraphrase on Themes from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’

Pianist Daniel Grimwood is an internationally acclaimed performer, combining an exceptional talent, rare versatility and refinement, with an inquisitive personality. With a repertoire ranging from Elizabethan Virginal music to the works of living composers, he enjoys a solo and a chamber career, which has taken him across the globe. He performed on the most prestigious concert platforms, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room in London, Saffron Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Sage Gateshead, the Three Choirs Festival, the Rachmaninoff and Gnessin Halls in Moscow, the Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as venues in Germany, Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Estonia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Lebanon and Oman.