Aaron Copland may well be the best-known, the most loved, and the all-around greatest of twentieth century American composers, but his music from the '20s and '30s is still relatively unknown, still relatively unloved, and of still questionable greatness. Was Copland the Modernist too far out to connect to a big audience so he re-created himself ...
Most familiar in the lush arrangement for piano and full orchestra by Ferde Grofé, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is often exaggerated by flamboyant pianists and conductors to resemble a full-blown Romantic piano concerto. However, this performance by Garrick Ohlsson and Michael Tilson Thomas follows Grofé's 1924 version for the Paul Whiteman ...
Although this two-disc set features a wealth of smaller and lesser-known works of Chopin, the collection definitively shines the spotlight on the two piano concertos and the performance of legendary Chopin interpreter Garrick Ohlsson. This remastered recording of the 1976 originals does immense justice to the suave, elegant nature that ...
Stefan Wolpe was a composer who cut a Zelig-like path through the early twentieth century. Starting out in Ferruccio Busoni's master class, he ended up pounding piano in Weimar-era cabarets, fled to Palestine, and then to America, where he turned up at Black Mountain College in time to impact the work of John Cage and Morton Feldman. In the 1960s, ...
Garrick Ohlsson is a pianist with sufficient presence to introduce a striking detail and then let it hang for awhile, reassuring the listener that the loose ends will be tied together later on. It's a quality that serves him well in this program of Beethoven sonatas, one from early in Beethoven's career, one from the middle, and one from the end. ...
Hans Vonk recorded Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-symphonie in 1999 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and this luminous performance has been selected by Arch Media Archives for its eight-CD tribute to the conductor. While Vonk is probably best known for performing the Romantic repertoire, with few recordings of modern music to his credit, ...
Listeners unfamiliar with pianist Garrick Ohlsson owe it to themselves to check out at least one of his albums, especially his recordings of Chopin and Beethoven. His approach to the piano is consistently clean and sparkling, never sullied with excessive use of the pedal or too much of his own rubato. He is truly an artist who gives the listener ...
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