Garrick Ohlsson Archive

BRAHMS: Late Piano Works – Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Hyperion
Brahms favorite genre for solo piano are rendered in this new release by Garrick Ohlsson.

FALLA: Fantasia Baetica & other piano works – Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Hyperion
Spain’s musical soul enjoys brilliant illumination in this survey of Manuel de Falla’s keyboard works. FALLA: Cuatro piezas espanolas; El sombrero de tres picos; Canto de los remeros del Volga; El amor brujo (trans. Falla); Homenaje “Pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy”; Sequnda danza Espanola; Fantasia Baetica – Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Hyperion CDA68177, 70:00 […]

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in d; Symphonic Dances – Garrick Ohlsson, p./ Atlanta Sym. Orch./ Robert Spano – ASO Media
A fine display of the Atlanta Symphony’s impressive credentials in the music of Sibelius.

LISZT Piano Works, Vol. 2 = Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Bridge
Ohlsson’s second volume of Liszt – like his first – extends his sense of the composer as monolithic and intimate at once, the sheer fusion of extremes indicative of Liszt’s Romantic ethos.

“Close Connections” = LOUIS WEINGARDEN: Triptych; ROBERT HELPS: Shall We Dance; STEFAN WOLPE: Passacaglia; WILLIAM HIBBARD: Handwork; OLDŘICH KORTE: Sonata – Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Bridge
Modern music well off the beaten path from a respected interpreter of piano standards.

GRIFFES: Piano Music = Three Tone-Pictures; Fantasy Pieces; Roman Sketches; Piano Sonata; De profundis; A Winter Landscape; Three Preludes – Garrick Ohlsson, p. – Hyperion
A glorious performance of these important piano works by one of the finest pianists.

Garrick Ohlsson Performs Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Blu-ray (2012)
If the performances were as excellent as the documentary, this disc would be something.

GRANADOS: Goyescas & other sel. – Garrick Ohlsson, p. – Hyperion
A program devoted to Granados’ response to Francisco Goya’s art elicits an impressively sympathetic response from Garrick Ohlsson.
LISZT: Fantasy and Fugue on the Choral “Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam,” S. 259 (arr. Busoni); Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 – Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Bridge
Virtuoso ecstasies of demonic proportion from Ohlsson, who helps usher in the Liszt bicentennial.