Garrick Ohlsson
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles
…These are my type of performances—full-bodied-sounding modern instruments in up-tempo, sharply defined readings set in perfect balance between piano and orchestra. No detail—be it tempo indication,... — More…
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Record Review, 20th May 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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The ensemble brings an extraordinary range and depth of sound to Beach’s closely-worked score…Ohlsson and the Takács Quartet are vividly alert to the [Elgar]’s sense of story…This is a performance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Chamber
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He is… captivating in the Waltzes, delivering the bel canto musical line with great tenderness and affection and applying rubato in a spontaneous and entirely unmannered fashion. — More…
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Dvorak: Complete Symphonies & Concertos
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek
The early symphonies sound as if they are ingrained into the Czech musicians’ DNA...The playing throughout has a transparency, with wonderfully woody woodwinds, and Belohlavek’s affectionate... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2020, Recommended Recording
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Notwithstanding the essential simplicity of their form, Smetana imbues [the Czech Dances] with considerable sophistication. The first has a musing, reflective quality captured beautifully by... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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…Ohlsson brings a phenomenal variety of expression and depth of characterisation to these exquisite miniatures - an approach that manages to capture the folk elements of the composer's style... — More…
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In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25,... — More…
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The music does indeed appear to ‘pour’ from his fingers as though as part of an incandescent flow, alternating the impassioned eloquence of the three capriccios and reflective intensity of the... — More…
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He has a fine feeling for the music’s scope and scale which, if a tad monolithic in places, sounds just as ambitious as its composer intended. — More…
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Record Review, 3rd July 2021, Record of the Week
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Not only does he catch the rhythm, but his feel for nuance and colour misses no element of Chopin’s infinite imagination, and the balance of earthiness and elegance is well-nigh ideal…Ohlsson... — More…
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