Benjamin Grosvenor’s playing has been called “a kind of miracle”, and last time he performed with the CBSO, this 27-year old British pianist held Symphony Hall spellbound. Together with an old friend of the CBSO, Jonathan Bloxham, they were due to perform with the CBSO in May 2020. Instead, here they meet for the first time, on Zoom.

The concert programme would have begun with Dvořák’s exuberant Carnival overture and ended with Beethoven at his maddest, his boldest and his most gloriously untamed – in other words, at his very best.

Dvořák  Carnival Overture

This episode was recorded early in June 2020.