{"title":"Garrick Ohlsson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGarrick Ohlsson\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1948) - pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"brahms-piano-sonatas-rhapsodies","title":"BRAHMS: PIANO SONATAS \u0026 RHAPSODIES","description":"Both sonatas recorded here are the work of the young Brahms, who was still a teenager when he wrote Op.2. They are paired with, and perfectly complement the much later rhapsodies. 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Reference Recordings is proud to present The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos played by Grammy-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson is especially noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. He is the only American to win first prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new recording represents a pinnacle in his career. The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra consists of top talent from across the country, including more than 220 musicians from 90 orchestras and 65 institutions of higher learning, many performing together each summer for over 25 years. The Festival, founded in 1962, also welcomes yearly some of the most sought-after soloists and visiting artists in classical music today. Under the baton of world-renowned conductor Sir Donald Runnicles, these musicians come together to gather inspiration from the mountain setting and to provide spectacular music for Festival audiences. This album was recorded during live performances in July 2022, produced by Victor Muenzer, and engineered by Kevin Harbison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGarrick Ohlsson and Donald Runnicles accomplished the ambitious feat of recording all five Beethoven piano concertos over five consecutive days in July 2022. You wouldn’t know that from these unpressured and poised performances, at least for the most part. The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra may be a pick-up aggregation, yet Runnicles obtains world-class results by way of clear-cut balances between orchestral strands, and virtually immaculate unanimity of ensemble attacks and releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOhlsson’s 74-year-old fingers operate at unambiguous full capacity. Runs and trills are as accurate, assured, and directional as ever; themes are thoughtfully characterized and articulated with variety. Unlike many pianists who rattle off the “Emperor” concerto’s introductory cadenza like a day at the races, Ohlsson’s shapely phrasing draws attention to the composer rather than to himself. I’m especially taken with Ohlsson’s vocally informed legato and rapt sustaining power in all five slow movements, where he strikes a happy medium between his one-time mentor Claudio Arrau’s rhetorical inflections and Wilhelm Kempff’s luminous intimacy (the pianist’s hauntingly calibrated left-hand tremolos in No. 3’s Largo seem to emerge from afar). The assiduously dovetailed rapid exchanges between soloist and orchestra in No. 4’s Rondo either result from painstaking rehearsal or profound mental telepathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo be sure, all is not perfect: Tempos bog down in No. 1’s Allegro con brio from the development section on, while No. 2’s underplayed Rondo Finale lacks the bracing angularity that Schnabel, Kapell, Gould, and Fleisher brought to this music. The Creatures of Prometheus Overture that follows the “Emperor” on Disc 3 begins with a crisp, hard-hitting introduction, then settles into auto-pilot for the main section. If the Ohlsson\/Runnicles Beethoven cycle falls short of the freshness and individuality distinguishing recent contenders like Zhang\/Stutzmann, Barnatan\/Gilbert, and Hough\/Lintu, these superbly engineered recordings still offer much to savor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- ClassicsToday.com (Jed Distler)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all pianists before the public today, Ohlsson’s technique is among the most honest. Every note is present and accounted for, nothing ever fudged, all within an exquisitely calculated proportionality. His approach is, above all, lyrical. This is a bouquet of Beethoven concertos like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- Gramophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have several Reference Recordings in my collection and I’m always bowled over by their impeccability, where everything is recorded and mastered to perfection. For me, they’re the crème de la crème when it comes to recorded sound. This new release is no exception. The engineers have done a sterling job in placing the solo piano ideally in the sound picture. The three discs (Hybrid SACDS with Stereo SACD, 5.0 Surround SACD and Stereo CD layers) come nicely presented in the traditional fatbox format, and are well-annotated. There’s no doubting that this will be one of my Recordings of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- MusicWeb International\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reference Recordings","offers":[{"title":"SACD","offer_id":46012506734826,"sku":"030911275129","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4201737-2975006.jpg?v=1778234429"},{"product_id":"joio-oceans-apart-090404958328","title":"Joio: \"Oceans Apart\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe featured work on this album of compositions by Justin Dello Joio is the American composer's new piano concerto; \"Oceans Apart\"; composed for keyboard titan; Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Alan Gilbert; the artists who premiered the concerto in 2023. The program also includes chamber works performed by the New York Philharmonic's principal cellist; Carter Brey; with pianist Christopher O'Riley; and the American Brass Quintet; and organist Colin Fowler. For more information see www.justindellojoio.net\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridge Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46012740534506,"sku":"090404958328","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4411250-3335239.jpg?v=1778195712"},{"product_id":"beethoven-piano-sonatas-vol-8-garrick-ohlsson-103370","title":"Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol 8 \/ Ohlsson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis disc presents three sonatas, No. 1, No. 23 ('Appassionata'), and No. 30, Op. 109, performed by 2008 Grammy-winning pianist, Garrick Ohlsson. 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This is now The Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s fourth such double album; these albums are of extraordinary knowledge-building value, permitting sensitive listeners to acquaint themselves with the particular beauty of early instruments in confrontation with their modern version. Garrick Ohlsson’s newest recordings acquaint us more closely with Chopin in two different ways, in both cases with the greatest of expertise in his music. For this recording, Garrick Ohlsson selected genres characteristic of Chopin: a ballade, nocturnes, a scherzo, mazurkas. 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The present disc opens with one of Op. 2 No. 3's finest recorded performances. Ohlsson's lean, propulsive first movement incorporates distinctly contrasted themes and subtle tempo modifications. Everything hangs together so well that when Ohlsson leans on the accelerator for the movement's final octave outburst the effect is conclusive rather than vulgar.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ohlsson also plays Op. 14 No. 1 beautifully, bringing a refreshingly terse quality to the Allegretto by underlining its sudden dynamic shifts. The pianist's genial, expansive account of Op. 14 No. 2's opening movement evokes memories of Claudio Arrau's likeminded mid-1960s recording, yet Ohlsson stresses different details, such as the left hand's chromatic broken octaves. Ohlsson's crisp yet full-bodied shaping of the second movement's detached chords brings out the music's Haydn-like wit, to say nothing of the finale's aptly timed, elegant fingerwork.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Excellent sound and notes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e -- Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=189484\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/graphics\/covers\/non-muze\/thumb\/189484.jpg\" height=\"74\" border=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cb\u003e Just Released -\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=189484\"\u003eBeethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 5 \/ Garrick Ohlsson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The newest volume in Garrick Ohlsson's impressive and illuminating cycle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bridge Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027580834026,"sku":"090404920721","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/822528-2553375.jpg?v=1778338977"},{"product_id":"beethoven-piano-sonatas-vol-6-garrick-ohlsson-224490","title":"Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 6 \/ Garrick Ohlsson","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003ePiano Sonatas: No. 11 in B?,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e op. 22; \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eNo. 13 in E?,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e op. 27\/1; \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eNo. 31 in A?,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e op. 110 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Garrick Ohlsson (pn) \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e \u003ca class=\"links\" href=\"album.jsp?album_id=202206\"\u003eBRIDGE 9266\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e (62:21)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eBEETHOVEN \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003ePiano Sonatas: No. 29 in B?,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e op. 106, “Hammerklavier”; \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eNo. 16 in G,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e op. 31\/1 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Garrick Ohlsson (pn) \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BRIDGE 9262 (69:15) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eA recital of Beethoven piano sonatas that includes early and late music, as is the case with both of these new releases from Garrick Ohlsson’s series of the complete sonatas, should make the listener aware of the degree to which Beethoven evolved as an artist, but also those elements that marked him as a singular genius throughout his career. Some pianists do this by underlining elements in the earlier pieces that point to the unique, even eccentric nature of the composer; highlighting an odd harmony or an exuberant melodic structure, as examples. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eOhlsson takes a different tack. Although Beethoven was well into his so-called first period by the time of the Sonatas Nos. 11, 13, and 16, they are still classically conceived constructions, more so in mold of his teacher Haydn than Mozart, especially in his frequent use of humor. Ohlsson does not downplay the brilliance of this music, or even its boldness, but hears it as a continuation of a tradition rather than anything radical. Beethoven’s music, from the outset of his career, is filled with surprises and wonderful dramatic twists, but in this playing, they are always neatly within the context of the overall logic of the music. It is an equally good prescription for playing Mozart and Haydn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe Piano Sonata No. 31 is full of extraordinary imagination, but is familiar enough to our ears to be considered the most accessible of the late sonatas, especially because of its magnificent neobaroque counterpoint writing. And the “Hammerklavier” is simply \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003esui generis\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e as a work of art. So somehow tying this music to earlier Beethoven isn’t really necessary, and Ohlsson plays them for their own sake. As has been noted in previous reviews, his tempos are on the broad side, which, in the case of both these late sonatas accentuates the grandiloquence of the music. This approach makes for an especially rewarding rendition of No. 31, which can sound rushed in less-mature hands. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe tempo question gets a bit sticky in the case of the “Hammerklavier.” Ohlsson makes no attempt whatever to play the first movement at the composer’s supposed metronome marking, but few do. Many have questioned the veracity of the marking, which seems ridiculously fast. A few pianists, notably Peter Serkin, can bring it off, with exhilarating results, but it is hard to deny that the more measured tempo of Ohlsson ultimately gives us a more musical and sensible interpretation. But for the full measure of what Ohlsson contributes to an immense and storied recorded legacy, one needs only to turn to his superb rendition of the hulking slow movement to this work. It is one challenge to gather up the furious notes of the outer movements of this behemoth, but in some ways even more daunting to hold together the oceanic center, which Ohlsson does with supreme grace and intelligence. It reflects everything else he plays. I can only echo previous \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e commentary from Boyd Pomeroy and Jerry Dubins to say that despite the multitude of excellent choices already available in this music, great artistry like this is always welcome. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-weight:bold\"\u003eFANFARE: Peter Burwasser \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bridge Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027613503722,"sku":"090404926228","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/1251605-2552982.jpg?v=1778338076"},{"product_id":"garrick-ohlsson-complete-beethoven-sonatas-vol-9-214554","title":"Garrick Ohlsson: Complete Beethoven Sonatas Vol. 9","description":"\u003cp\u003eGarrick Ohlsson completes his survey of Beethoven's monumental thirty-two sonatas, a project that the great American pianist has been working on for more than a decade. 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Here, on a solidly engineered disc featuring a pianist of an earlier generation, we get something substantially less dazzling, although in its own way even more impressive. Not that Ohlsson lacks technique: whether in the clarity of the voices in the Bach-Liszt Fugue or of the sprays of notes in \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJeux d’eaux\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, Ohlsson strides through this often transcendentally difficult music with supreme and fully justified confidence. Still—and I mean this as a descriptive, rather than an evaluative, claim—there’s a maturity to the playing that we don’t hear in Lisitsa’s more exuberantly youthful and improvisatory performances. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eFor the most part (the closing \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMephisto Waltz\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e is the primary exception), Ohlsson has chosen from Liszt’s more sober works—and for the most part, his moderate tempos and (where appropriate) his bass-centered sonority give the details of the music a chance to sink in. More importantly, I think, he manages to probe beneath the surface of the music and (miraculously) to do so without sacrificing any of its immediate rhetoric. Thus, for instance, there’s no lack of virtuoso sparkle in \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJeux d’eaux\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e; but Ohlsson is also unusually alert to its subtler emotional shadings, capturing the disarming splashes of nostalgic regret, in particular, as well as anyone. Similarly, while he can crush you with the climaxes of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFunérailles\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, he’s unusually tender in the quieter moments, giving the work a nobility it doesn’t always have in the hands of more consistently extroverted pianists like Horowitz and Barere. In his appropriately enthusiastic review of Ohlsson’s previous Bridge Liszt recording (the Sonata and the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAd Nos Fantasy\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, 35:2), Patrick Rucker referred to Ohlsson’s “profound wisdom and almost excruciating beauty”—and the same overriding qualities certainly characterize this remarkable \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFunérailles\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, too. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eOhlsson also has an enviable sense of architecture. This emerges not only in his treatment of the individual works (there’s consistent impetus to \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBénédiction\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, a work that can easily stall but that here provides an engrossing sense of journey), but also in his design of the program as a whole. I particularly enjoyed the way that \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJeux d’eaux\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, which follows the joyful reading of the Bach-Liszt Fugue, serves as to prepare us for beauties of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eBénédiction\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e—as well as the way \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eNuages gris\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e (played with remarkable finesse) and the second of the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFour Little Piano Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e provide a transition between the grimness of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFunérailles\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e and the dash of the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMephisto Waltz. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eIn sum, music-making that deserves to be savored. I hope that Bridge and Ohlsson have plans for continuing the series. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-weight:bold\"\u003eFANFARE: Peter J. 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