...a terrific release, wholly satisfying, and timely as ever.
“It took more than a century, but Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet has finally got the recording it deserves, courtesy of Garrick Ohlsson and the Tákacs Quartet. Written in 1909, Beach’s Quintet is a glorious piece, it’s three movements marked by a mix of rhapsodic lyricism, virtuosity, and lush, late-Romantic chromatic harmony. The present recording draws out those qualities mightily.…
Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony and her Piano Concerto made her an American icon at the turn of the 20th century, but her works are not performed or recorded as often as they might be. A new release by a prestigious quartet changes that.
The New York Times Progress remains all too slow, but the classical music industry is taking halting steps toward gender equality. Female conductors are taking their place on the podium more than ever before; women are among the most important composers writing today. There has even been a notable rise of interest in music by figures from the past: Clara Schumann, Louise Farrenc and Florence…
Visit WQXR to listen to this feature. In our third episode of “New York in Concert”, we bring you performances from two concerts from the 92nd Street Y, a nonprofit community and cultural center serving New York City since 1874. First, pianist Garrick Ohlsson brings his mastery of Beethoven and Chopin to the stage in an empty Kaufmann Hall. This concert took place on March 14th, after…
Ohlsson made the piano sing in the gently elusive middle movement, rich with overtones of Rachmaninoff and Schumann with only an occasional nod to the twentieth century
“Pianist Garrick Ohlsson joined New and the orchestra for the work, bringing unapologetic athleticism to the starkly dramatic opening passage and later, still in the first movement, to the torrential cadenza. Ohlsson made the piano sing in the gently elusive middle movement, rich with overtones of Rachmaninoff and Schumann with only an occasional nod to the twentieth century; he moved full…
A leading exponent of the music of Chopin who also commands an enormous catalogue of works, ranging from the Baroque to the 21st Century.
ABC Classic The master recitalist recalls how a performance by Sviatislav Richter changed him forever as a musician, how and why the music of Chopin became a defining passion in his life, and he describes the challenges that Scriabin’s mystical works hold for a pianist. His duet with Tamara is, fittingly, a piece by Chopin, but it’s not what you might…
...nobility is exactly what came to mind on Sunday night when listening to Ohlsson’s first ever Australian piano recital.
“When it comes to pianists, it’s often illuminating to trace pedagogical lineages. American pianist Garrick Ohlsson can trace his back to Franz Liszt, via one of Ohlsson’s teachers, the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, and Arrau’s teacher, Liszt student Martin Krause. It’s a form of nobility. And nobility is exactly what came to mind on Sunday night when listening to Ohlsson’s…