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Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the San Diego Symphony

He was on to every connection, no matter how subtle, with all thematic threads illuminated with a sense of sympathy and delight

“The “Rach 3,” as it has come to be known, is a warhorse among warhorses, satisfying audiences and challenging aspiring pianists since its premiere in 1909. This past weekend, Garrick Ohlsson tackled it with the San Diego Symphony under the baton of Robert Spano at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, and turned in performances that helped to both amplify the lore and mystique of the concerto…

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Beethoven’s Five Piano Concertos Album review

Throughout, not a note is out of place during these invigorating and searching readings

“…the ‘Emperor’, a majestic account with considered conducting, a lively orchestra, and fastidious solos from Ohlsson, an architect, a lyricist, and a dynamic purveyor of the notes, the sort of address that takes the listener into the music without performer artifice or intervention for its own sake; thus No.5 is essayed with character, a trust in – and a focus on – the music,…

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Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic

It’s lovely to hear a soloist of such spectacular ability who is willing to be part of the background at times and to play Rachmaninov as if, at times, he were Chopin.

“…there was something very special to hear in Garrick Ohlsson’s Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto on Saturday. It’s often considered one of the greatest challenges for any virtuoso pianist… But Ohlsson performed it with consummate skill, completely in control of all its demands and creating with it something of great musical beauty. […] The factor that first struck…

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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Prague Philharmonia

Náladovou, lyricky vstřícnou introdukci, do které se vmísil orchestr, odvál Garrick Ohlsson vzrušivou virtuózní kadencí, kterou z úvodního vášnivého nasazení zmírnil do kontrastně poklidnějšího dění.

“Náladovou, lyricky vstřícnou introdukci, do které se vmísil orchestr, odvál Garrick Ohlsson vzrušivou virtuózní kadencí, kterou z úvodního vášnivého nasazení zmírnil do kontrastně poklidnějšího dění.” Klasika Plus “Jeho první sólový vstup vyzněl nesmírně poeticky a v průběhu věty jsme měli mnohokrát možnost ocenit Ohlssonovo lyrické…

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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Detroit Symphony

Garrick Ohlsson and Slatkin conspired a magnificent traversal of Brahms’s equally magnificent First Piano Concerto...

“Garrick Ohlsson and Slatkin (longstanding musical comrades) conspired a magnificent traversal of Brahms’s equally magnificent First Piano Concerto… The orchestral opening was trenchant, Ohlsson introducing the piano so naturally (his focus is always on the music he plays; no spurious look-at-me antics), pianist, conductor, and orchestra (wonderful woodwinds), unfolding the first…

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Chopin bezpośredni

Gdy 27-letni Garrick Ohlsson jechał do Warszawy na Konkurs Chopinowski, polecono mu, by zgolił brodę.

Szafa Melomana Gdy 27-letni Garrick Ohlsson jechał do Warszawy na Konkurs Chopinowski, polecono mu, by zgolił brodę. W stolicy jednego z krajów bloku wschodniego mogła ona zostać uznana za dowdów przynależności do hipisowskiej kontrkultury. „Nie możesz im dawać do ręki argumentów na nie, zanim jeszcze zagrasz” – ktoś mu powiedział. Z kolei w USA kojarzyła się z…

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