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Garrick Ohlsson with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Grand Teton Music Festival · Ep. 3 – Ohlsson plays Beethoven
Garrick Ohlsson with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Grand Teton Music Festival · Ep. 3 – Ohlsson plays Beethoven
Ohlsson gave audiences something much subtler and more difficult to achieve: a performance of this most archly Romantic of piano concertos that seemed to efface the interpreter’s ego entirely.
“Ohlsson gave audiences something much subtler and more difficult to achieve: a performance of this most archly Romantic of piano concertos that seemed to efface the interpreter’s ego entirely. […] His mastery was breathtakingly apparent from the very first chords.” “Although Ohlsson found extraordinary nuances of phrasing and tone in otherwise familiar melodies, the music unfolded…
Ohlsson’s performance of this demanding score is nothing short of heroic.
The Boston Globe Reflecting back on the year about to end, the final Classical Notes column of 2023 brings together eight notable recordings by local artists, composers, and ensembles. One of the first musical events of the year was the premiere of Justin Dello Joio’s piano concerto “Oceans Apart” by pianist Garrick Ohlsson and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductor Alan Gilbert. A…
“It was indeed evident in his performance that he has experienced the piece to perfection. He performed it with obvious insight, with complete sovereignty and stylistic clarity. He delivered it with apparent composure, absolute mastery, and stylistic purity. The outer movements were played with amazing vigor and infectious youthful enthusiasm […]. In the slow movement, we could appreciate…
Ohlsson praises Van Ostrand’s early teachers for doing a “magnificent job” and suggests that his work as a mentor is largely to avoid undoing the marvelous results.
Viewed through the prism of a program he will perform Aug. 25 at the San Francisco International Piano Festival, pianist Parker Van Ostrand is ready for any challenge. That ambitious solo recital includes a Haydn sonata, Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23; Claude Debussy’s “Brouillards” from Préludes, Book II; Maurice Ravel’s La valse; and Franz…
Piano superstar Garrick Ohlsson performs Chopin live in the ABC Classic Breakfast
‘Coquettish, painfully poignant and an abyss of dangerous feeling’ – welcome to the soundscape created by American concert pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who joined Dr Megan Burslem in the ABC Classic Breakfast studio for stunning renditions of Chopin’s ‘Nocturne for piano no. 5,’ and ‘Mazurka, Op.50: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor’. Says Garrick: “This…