Special offer. Chopin - The Great Polonaises
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazimierz Kord
…Ohlsson applies an exceptionally wide tonal range, bringing out all the passion and drama of the C sharp minor Op. 26 No. 1, for example, but also remaining alive to its moments of introversion...
Special offer. Chopin - The Great Polonaises
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazimierz Kord
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…Ohlsson applies an exceptionally wide tonal range, bringing out all the passion and drama of the C sharp minor Op. 26 No. 1, for example, but also remaining alive to its moments of introversion...
About
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth we are reissuing on Helios some of the finest performances from Garrick Ohlsson’s complete Chopin project, originally recorded for the American label Arabesque and reissued on Hyperion as a 16 CD boxed set (CDS44351/66) in 2008. Sadly unacknowledged at the time of their original issue (very few of the original discs received much review coverage), these CDs include some of the greatest contemporary Chopin playing and include definitive performances of the complete etudes and mazurkas. It’s worth remembering the not only did Garrick win the 1970 Chopin competition (the only American to do so), but he also won the special prize for Mazurka playing, that most idiomatically Polish genre of Chopin’s output.
Contents and tracklist
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-08-25
- Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
- Kazimierz Kord
- Recorded: 1997-06-18
- Recording Venue: National Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw
Awards and reviews
February 2010
…Ohlsson applies an exceptionally wide tonal range, bringing out all the passion and drama of the C sharp minor Op. 26 No. 1, for example, but also remaining alive to its moments of introversion and dark melancholy. In the wonderful Polonaise-Fantasy he encapsulates these contrasts while maintaining a real sense of impetus, driving irresistibly towards the work's exciting conclusion.
Ohlsson’s Polonaises are as impressive as those of Rubinstein
