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…