
These strong, stylish, intelligently mapped-out, and excellently engineered interpretations of Brahms’ complete solo-piano variation sets find pianist Garrick Ohlsson on peak technical and musical form.
While others may bring more panache and kinetic sweep to the Rachmaninov Corelli Variations and Prokofiev Second sonata than Garrick Ohlsson, his rhythmic discipline, strong
Recorded in 2004 yet only released in 2009, Garrick Ohlsson’s traversal of the complete Scriabin Etudes features a vintage 1876 Steinway Style 4 Concert Grand.
The 1970s saw a strong and diversified bumper crop of Chopin Preludes recordings from Claudio Arrau, Ivan Moravec, Murray Perahia, Martha Argerich, Maurizio Pollini, and
Originally issued as individual volumes by Arabesque, Garrick Ohlsson’s integral 1990s Chopin survey returns on Hyperion as a space-saving 16-disc boxed set. Comparisons between these
As with several previous installments of this Beethoven cycle, pianist Garrick Ohlsson uses a rebuilt Mason and Hamlin grand, whose slightly nasal timbre changes from
The late Hans Vonk apparently approved eight discs for release by the St. Louis Symphony on its own label, as a memorial to his art
Looking for serious, skillfully structured, idiomatically conceived keyboard music that infuses the Barber/early-Carter tradition with thornier narratives and more dissonant flavors? If so, you’ll probably
The god of inspiration sprints hand in hand with Garrick Ohlsson as the pianist nears completion of his Beethoven sonata cycle. The present disc opens
It appears that Bridge has picked up the Beethoven cycle that Garrick Ohlsson began for Arabesque. Or perhaps “Volume 1” implies that the pianist is