Concert and opera reviews from Southern California.
For each composer, Ms. Grimaud chose a late work: Beethoven’s Op.109, Brahms Op.116 and Op.117 (in a manner of speaking, Brahms’ entire Op.116-119 could be classified as one big set of ‘piano songs’), and the Bach chaconne transcribed for the piano by Busoni…
Read MoreUnlike some of her younger colleagues, Hélène Grimaud’s pianistic style, as in her wardrobe, is sensibly down-to-earth and non-flashy, content to let the music speak for itself without any affectation of tempo or phrasing.
Read MoreHélène Grimaud was the soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G-Major. She brought her own individual stamp of crisp articulation and unsentimental phrasing to the piece
Read MoreMs. Grimaud showed us in the first two movements that passion and poetry could be sharply contrasting two sides of the same coin
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