Garrick Ohlsson
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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... —
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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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Special offer. 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,... —
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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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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... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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he's a born Brahmsian, equipped at the highest level with the necessary speed and power, the muscular strength and facility of finger tempered by breadth of outlook and solidity of intellect. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Ohlsson's performances throughout are a judicious blend of absolute technical security and fantasy, giving especially appealing treatment to the simple melodies that emerge occasionally from... —
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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. —
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Record Review, 3rd July 2021, Record of the Week
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Once ranked with Beethoven's, Weber's sonatas are now little known. Ohlsson's masterful playing, ranging from the scintillatingly soloistic, engrossingly exposes a miscarriage of justice. —
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As a pupil and disciple of Claudio Arrau. Ohlsson cultivates a richness of tone which some listeners might find too Brahmsian. But besides the depth, Ohlsson plays crisply, and is never in... —
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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