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Benjamin Grosvenor's fourth album on the Decca Classics label, Homages explores works by great composers paying tribute to their predecessors. Mendelssohn and Franck look back to the Prelude & Fugue form made so popular by Bach. Busoni takes Bach's great solo violin Chaconne and reinterprets it in a bold and imaginative transcription for piano. Chopin breathes new life into the traditional Barcarolle of Venetian gondoliers, followed ten years later by Liszt's tribute to Italian folk song, Venezia e Napoli. Album 2016 18 Songs. Homages Benjamin Grosvenor. Benjamin Grosvenor born 8 July 1992 is a British classical pianist. Grosvenor is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, and his mother Rebecca is a piano teacher by profession. Grosvenor began studying the piano with his mother at the age of six. He joined Westcliff High School for Boys in 2003. He now also takes lessons from Christopher Elton in London. Grosvenor studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he had musicianship classes with Daniel-Ben Pienaar and. Listen free to Benjamin Grosvenor Homages J. Bach: Partita for Violin Solo No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 - Transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni - Chaconne in D Minor, Mendelssohn: Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, , No. Prelude, MWV U116 and more. 18 tracks 100:05. Benjamin Grosvenors album Homages explores hidden connections between works written centuries apart. In this new recording Benjamin explores works by great composers paying tribute to their predecessors. Benjamin Grosvenor. Released: Sep , 2016. Homages, 2016. Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, Op. 35 No. 1: Prelude MWV U116, 02:13. 1: Fugue MWV U66, 06:49. Prelude & Fugue in F Minor, Op. 5: Prelude MWV U126, 03:26. Homages Johann Sebastian BACH 1685-1750 Partita BWV 1004: Chaconne transcr. Busoni Felix MENDELSSOHN 1809-1847 Prelude & Fugue for piano in E minor, Op. 1 Prelude & Fugue for piano in F minor, Op. After his meteoric and youthful career launch, Benjamin Grosvenor is establishing a respectable record catalogue with the Decca label, this being his fourth album in a collection that includes concertos as well as solo works. The Homage aspect of this particular programme gives an added unity to a recital already held together by its Romantic content, the works having been chosen as they make something new from the old