Piano Recital - Schubert Sonatas

Schubert Piano Sonata in A Minor Op 42
Schubert Piano Sonata in D major Op 53

Schubert Piano Sonata in G major Op 78

Daniel's comment about this programme: "They were intended to be published as a trio - it's a pretty huge programme, but beyond beautiful."

Few of those present are likely to forget the incredible performance given Daniel Grimwood with violinist Fenella Humphreys recently. During rehearsal for that concert and during piano tuning a number of essential, but time consuming, maintenance issues were identified. Daniel very generously offered to give a piano recital to raise funds for this work to be carried out. This work has already been carried out in preparation for the day of the concert and so you will be able to hear the piano at its best.

Money from ticket sales for this concert will be allocated as follows:

1. Daniel's travelling expenses from Kent
2. Piano maintenance work and tuning
3. Any money in excess will be given to Daniel as a small fee

Daniel Grimwood, pianist

Website: www.danielgrimwood.co.uk

A new label’s first release sets down important markers, and with these impressive accounts of the 13 Nocturnes of Gabriel Fauré, written between 1875 and 1921, Edition Peters establishes the highest standards. Grimwood relishes the liquid harmonic movement and rich textural elaborations of Fauré’s ruminative, often dark pieces with poise and refinement; even when things get busy, the sound colours are beautiful.

Sunday Times

Daniel Grimwood is one of the most original musicians of his generation. With a repertoire ranging from Elizabethan Virginal music to composers of the modern day, he is a pianist of rare versatility, whose exceptional talent is internationally renowned.

He enjoys a solo and chamber career, which has taken him across the globe, performing in many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room in London, the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Three Choirs Festival, the Rachmaninoff and Gnessin Halls in Moscow, the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York, as well as concert halls in Germany, Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Estonia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Lebanon. He has recently given the American premiere of the Chamber Version of Henselt’s F minor Piano Concerto in Florida.

His musical interest started as a 3 year old playing next door’s piano and from the age of 7 he was performing in front of audiences. His training continued with Graham Fitch at the Purcell School, where he also studied violin, viola and composition, giving him a broad appreciation of classical music, and later Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Peter Feuchtwanger.

Although primarily a pianist, he is frequently to be found performing on harpsichord, organ, viola or composing at his desk. Grimwood is a passionate exponent of the early piano, and has given a recital of Chopin’s Etudes on the composer’s own Pleyel piano.

As a solo recording artist his growing discography ranges from Scriabin on Somm Recordings to Algernon Ashton, (a world premiere recording) on Toccata Classics. His recent discs of Liszt and Chopin, performed on an 1851 Erard piano, received a unanimous chorus of praise from the press; the Liszt album was Daily Telegraph CD of the week and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine. He is the first artist to record on the new Edition Peters Sounds label, whose recently released complete Fauré Nocturnes had an excellent reception in The Sunday Times. Performances this season take him to Germany, Austria, the United States and the UK.

Daniel Grimwood's [Wigmore Hall] piano recital was stimulating and revelatory in equal measure. He played the first two books of Liszt's musical travelogue Années de Pèlerinage, which in itself is something of an undertaking in terms of pianistic demands, and he did so on an instrument of Liszt's time, an Erard piano of 1851.
Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph