"Editor's choice: An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a gift for fusing both architecture and passion. Benjamin Grosvenor's interpretation embodies these qualities and then some ... One may miss Arrau's golden-toned largesse or the gaunter classicism of Fleisher, Curzon and Brendel, yet Grosvenor's Liszt Sonata clearly belongs in such company"

"Grosvenor conjures a brand of full and rounded keyboard sonority different from that of many of his contemporaries, and recalls the giants of an earlier generation (Busoni, for instance, or Josef Lhévinne) ... His interpretations seem to take us close to the essence of the music itself, and to the legendary playing style it sprang from ... Gorgeous playing of the Ave Maria transcription rounds out a generously filled programme"

"Editor's choice - February 2021: The sheer vaulting athleticism with which Grosvenor tackles the opening of the mighty Sonata certainly stops you in your tracks, but it's soul rather than muscle which is the defining characteristic of this breathtakingly beautiful Liszt recital from the young British pianist. The three Petrarch sonnets, Berceuse and Ave Maria really sing, and he's fully alive to the drama of the Réminiscences de Norma - the Druids' battle-cries could scarcely sound more electrifying in the opera-house than they do here"