“Hélène Grimaud performed in the Meisterpianisten series a recital that will resonate in the minds and hearts of visitors for a long time… Grimaud reduced the darkened Great Hall to a circle of intimacy and unbroken attention.”
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.
