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Garrick Ohlsson brings considerable pianistic and musical distinction to Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Interpretively speaking, he’s a centrist whose directness and (for lack of a better
Why these 1999 recordings first appeared in 2003 is anyone’s guess. Without question, they were worth the wait. The first thing you notice is the
The title and repertoire suggest a kind of modified Piano’s Greatest Hits with Garrick Ohlsson at the keyboard. It’s only when you break the shrink-wrap
Fans of the great Polish contralto/mezzo Ewa Podles should race to get this CD. Her voice is remarkable: dark, rich, huge, multifaceted in its expressivity,
Like Ernst Levy, Wilhelm Backhaus, Christoph Eschenbach, and Daniel Barenboim, Garrick Ohlsson approaches Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata as a harbinger of Romanticism, notably in his conservatively
The present installment in Garrick Ohlsson’s Beethoven Sonata series for Arabesque benefits from warmer, more focused sonics than the relatively harsh and murky ambience of
The first thing you notice about these performances is the dark, registrally differentiated timbres of Garrick Ohlsson’s Bösendorfer grand piano. Listeners steeped in recorded Beethoven
Touring with the Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi once remarked that “we give a great concert and George Szell gets a great review.” True, Szell
Chopin composed only 19 songs, but they cover almost his entire compositional career, from 1829 to 1847. They are direct and uncomplicated, each dealing with
Chopin’s Mazurkas embody some of the composer’s most daring creative ideas within a framework that strongly emphasizes his roots in traditional Polish song and dance.
