Prom 42: Grieg's Piano Concerto – 13.08.18

[BBMmk2]

Very much my view too. Benjamin Grosvenor plays the Grieg with far more subtlety and depth.

He’s one of those artists that doesn’t mess around. Just gets on stage and off he goes!

[Lat-Literal]

Believe it or not but I like him, usually but on Friday he was speaking and shouting in an hysterical manner which was very off-putting. And let's not mention Ms Dereham (Sp?) on Proms Extra!

Thanks for the clarification on Tom.

Elsewhere:

It's "ie" rather than "y".

Oh I see...…....the other bit.....only one "e" by all accounts.

That allows for three e's in elegance.

And four e's in elsewhere.

[Norrette]

Sorry to hear this Richard and hope music can add some solace but we badly need your measured contributions to counter some of the stuff written immediately above.

I agree, and as I brought the subject up it is not necessarily a sexist critique. Having now watched the TV recording I can see that my main problem with Ms Buniatishvilli was during the parts when she was *not* playing (not all captured on camera, mercifully). The conversation between piano and orchestra became one-sided.

[mercia]

Khatia has contemporaries who can play faster

phew - I wouldn't want to hear the Grieg played any faster than on this occasion.

[edashtav]

phew - I wouldn't want to hear the Grieg played any faster than on this occasion.

Phew- here’s Martin Kettle in a Guardian review, commenting on Khatia’s encore, Mercia:

“When she returned to play the world’s slowest and least idiomatic performance of Debussy’s Clair de Lune as an encore, it triggered, for me, that most unexpected of concert hall emotions – anger.”

Khatia is becoming marmite.