Kern; Olga

Chopin: Piano sonatas Nos. 2 & 3/Kern

Jed Distler

Olga Kern’s high level of technical sheen in the Second and Third Chopin sonatas cannot be disputed, despite the ups and downs of her musicality.

Brahms: Piano Variations/Kern

Jed Distler

Olga Kern’s first solo Brahms release casts no doubt either about her natural affinity for the composer’s brawny keyboard idiom or regarding her not-so-enlivening musicianship.

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1/Kern SACD

Jed Distler

Olga Kern’s fifth release for Harmonia Mundi fuels my reservations concerning her undeniably accomplished yet curiously uninteresting pianism. Her passagework throughout the Chopin E minor

Rachmaninov: Sonata 2, etc /Kern

Jed Distler

Olga Kern has the fingers of steel, huge sound, and lyrical instincts to put over late-Romantic Russian repertoire the way it should be heard. What’s

Rachmaninov transcriptions/Olga Kern

Jed Distler

Pianistically speaking Olga Kern boasts solid-steel fingers and a powerful sonority to match, yet her efforts to make her interpretations interesting don’t ring true. In