Special offer. Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Volume 2
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Ohlsson's artistry resembles a throwback to a different age of piano playing, when a special kind of unaffected grand manner was less rare than it is today. Everything here is presented with...
Special offer. Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Volume 2
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
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Ohlsson's artistry resembles a throwback to a different age of piano playing, when a special kind of unaffected grand manner was less rare than it is today. Everything here is presented with...
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Bridge is pleased to present Franz Liszt, Vol. 2, featuring keyboard titan, Garrick Ohlsson. Vol. 1 of the series (BRIDGE9337), featuring Liszt's Sonata and Busoni's transcription of Liszt's Ad Nos Fantasy, received stellar reviews in the international press. Writing in Audiophile Audition, Gary Lemco opined that “Ohlsson raises the level of performance well above the merely virtuosic into the realm of demonized contrapuntal poetry, one of the great Liszt statements for the new millenium.” BBC Music Magazine remarked on Ohlsson's “impressive display of ego-free power and virtuosity...Ohlsson delivers with an objective immensity.” Vol. 2 is no let down, with Ohlsson offering an equal measure of poetry and keyboard thrills in a mixed program of Liszt's transcriptions (Bach and Beethoven) and favorites (Mephisto Waltz, No. 1, Funérailles, and Les Jeux d’eaux).
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Awards and reviews
January 2014
Ohlsson's artistry resembles a throwback to a different age of piano playing, when a special kind of unaffected grand manner was less rare than it is today. Everything here is presented with likeable directness, often on an Olympian scale.
January 2014
he can produce such a rich palette of colours, illuminating the texts throughout with exemplary clarity and surges of great power.