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.
Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto 2 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra19 Jan 2024
“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 in the most inevitable manner, as if it had always existed in some alternate eternity.”