2015 BBC Music Magazine Awards Nomination: Instrumental Category
'Fears that this recital would feel diffuse and unfocused are banished by Grosvenor's Bach, the brilliance of his Chopin and Scriabin, and the poetic delight of the Granados waltzes. Norton Gould's boogie-woogie encore finishes with a flourish; it's only Grosvenor's third recital but boy do his fingers dance' - Awards Jury

Dances is a dazzling display of solo works for piano from Bach to Boogie Woogie; via Chopin, Granados, Albeniz, Scriabin and the Blue Danube.

For his second solo album on Decca, Benjamin Grosvenor has assembled a typically imaginative and appealing programme of piano music inspired by the dance form.

Shining the spotlight on the music of movement, this album was inspired by a letter from the great pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni to his pupil Egon Petri proposing a “dance programme” as a theme for Petri’s recitals, a concept Grosvenor expanded on for his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut recital in 2012.

Grosvenor was awarded the honour of opening the BBC Proms Concerts season and was the youngest-ever soloist to perform on the ‘First Night’.