“In the slow movement, Grimaud came close to achieving a greater sense of spiritual intensity than most can at the Bowl, and without the slightest trace of sentimentalíty. But when the fast movement took off, her tone turned glittery and the joint jumped, the accents were alive, and momentum was the main thrill.”
Album review: The Arts Fuse
Grimaud, a pianist whose grasp of the Romantic sensibility (especially the willingness to risk and commit all in pursuit of an artistic goal) is total, has a field day with it here. From the downbeat of the stormy, rhythmically a-blur “Äusserst bewegt,” this is a Kreisleriana that holds nothing back.
