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8 reviews
Ferruccio Busoni, Garrick Ohlsson, ...

Telarc, 2002

Great listening
The Busoni concerto should be known, in my opinion, as being up there with the best of the genre rather than infamous for being long and huge. There are plenty of delightful and memorable moments and tunes throughout; the work is never cold or austere in its scale, as a few 19th-century symphonies can tend to be. If you break the 72-minute work down into movements and subjects it is actually a ...

The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!

14 reviews
Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Beautiful piano music!
This is simply an exquisite collection of beautiful piano pieces. I am very satisfied with this purchase. I can read while listening to this music-call it background music...maybe, but even when you're doing something else-the music is there...it does not intrude, but it doesn't get lost either. I am having a hard time explaining this. I wanted music to relax and enjoy. I got just that with this ...

Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 5

2 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge, 2008

Ohlsson plays Beethoven with the gravitas Beethoven deserves
In his recording of Beethoven Sonatas Vol. 5 Garrick Ohlsson plays the "Pathetique", "Moonlight" and "Waldstein" sonatas. These sonatas are very well known and have been recorded by numerous other artists. I have many of the recordings of these popular sonatas, and I like them all. I am sure that you are in similar shoes. I was very curious to find out what is Mr. Ohlsson going to bring to this ...

Aaron Copland: The Essence of America [Box Set]

6 reviews
Aaron Copland, Michael Tilson Thomas, ...

RCA, 2000

The Music is Beautiful, but the Extras are Priceless
Michael Tilson Thomas has long been known to have had a happy and fruitful relationship with the great Aaron Copland. His intimate knowledge of Copland's music and heart are evident in these recordings. The second symphony and the Appalachian Ballet(! as opposed to suite, which leaves out a very gorgeous, mysterious movement) are gorgeously rendered, as is the inimitable Fanfare for the Common ...

Chopin: Préludes & Nocturnes

4 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson

EMI Classics, 2005

Wonderful
Ohlsson is so technically gifted. Yet, he keeps himself under control with his really beautiful rendition of these most gentle of Chopin's work. He doesn't fool around with tempos either, as so many other pianists (Pollini et. al.) tend to do with Chopin to bring out the emotion. Ohlsson realizes that the work of Chopin is inherently emotional enough as it is, and needs no help. He just plays ...

Rhapsody in Blue - Ultimate Piano Collection [20 CD Set]

6 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Delta, 2003

Great collection for a great price
I did not expect much in buying this collection, but I was greatly surpeised. There were no reviews of the product at the time, and I bought the collection simply as a sampler of many great piano pieces. Most of the recordings are exquisite and of decent recording quality. This collection was well worth the price.

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris

6 reviews
Jerome Simas, George Gershwin, ...

RCA, 2004

Best American in Paris, better than Bernstein
Michael Tilson Thomas is quite possibly the most underrated conductor alive today. His recordings are always astounding in their vision and power. San Francisco, although not the most powerful orchestra around, delivers one of the most convincing and most pleasing sounds today. SFSO is a bit soft on the strings, but the woodwind is marvelous and the brass rivals Chicago. However, it is the ...

Chopin: Polonaises

2 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Chopin Reincarnated
This recording is a must for any music lover! Mr. Ohlsson will help you emerge from the cave of musical shadows, into which you were perhaps driven by lesser performers. You will get no schmaltz from Mr. Ohlsson; he is as far away from the schmaltz as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is from the Harlequin Romances. You will be brought out from the shadows to the goodness of the musical sun, by this ...

Classic Chillout, Vol. 2

1 review
Various Artists

EMI Classics, 2004

Great Classical Spectrum
These cd's are a great set of varied classical music. Pavane is my favorite. Additionally, Classical Chillout 2 offers theme music from Harry Potter and it is very well done.

Copland the Modernist

4 reviews
Aaron Copland, Michael Tilson Thomas, ...

RCA, 1996

my favorite Copland disc
What separates this disc from hundred other Copland discs are the incredible performances of the San Francisco Symphony w/ MTT and the specific programming combination of pieces compiled here. The disc has the rarely heard "Symphonic Ode" as well as tour d'force 2nd Symphony and the "Orchestral Variations." The placement of these latter two pieces is particularly rewarding. Any follower of ...

Beethoven Sonatas, vol. 7
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge, 2008

Garrick Ohlsson - The Complete Chopin Piano Works Vol. 8 ~ Masterpieces & Miniatures

1 review
Gregorian Chant, Frederic Chopin, ...

Arabesque Recordings, 1997

A PENULTIMATE CHOPIN POTPOURRI
For the most part, compilation CDs drive me to distraction. Bits and pieces of this and that, you know how it is. But in Volume 8 of Arabesque's Chopin traversal ("Masterpieces and Miniatures"), quite the contrary is true; not one work is off the mark in this dedicated "whole." Listening to Ohlsson play is to hear these pieces as if for the first time. There's more insight, more tenderness, more ...

Beethoven Sonatas Vol. 8
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge, 2008

Unforgettable Classics: Relaxing Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, ...

Classics for Pleasur, 1999

University of Iowa Center for New Music: 25th Anniversary (1966-1991)
Gary Palmer, Dulane Aaberg, ...

Music & Arts Program, 1999

Charles Wuorinen: Works for Violin and Piano, 1969-1983

1 review
Charles Wuorinen, Michael Steinberg, ...

Bridge, 1993

A glorious disc!
The performances are superb (from Ohlsson's masterful reading of The Blue Bamboula to a sublime performance of the Six Pieces for violin and piano. An essential Wuorinen CD.

Garrick Ohlsson - Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge, 2008

Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge, 2008

Garrick Ohlsson Edition: Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

3 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Garrick Ohlsson

Bridge Records, Inc., 2006

A Unique and Most Rewarding Experience
This recording is a part of the series in which Mr. Garrick Ohlsson plays all 32 Beethoven sonatas. He has mixed and matched the sonatas for the greatest artistic effect, and not in the usual way of grouping them in the early, middle and late Beethoven periods. (The latter grouping is somewhat artificial, since Beethoven has re-worked some of his early materials during his later periods). Most ...

Classical Heartbreakers

3 reviews
Laszlo Varga, Robert Cohen, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

A Fantastic Compilation
Most of the musical pieces in this compilation are from versions as they appear in various movies. This is Classical music from classic movies such as: Somewhere in Time, Schindler's List, English Patient, The Piano, Platoon, et al. But make no mistake; the music is what's really worth mentioning here. The title says it all. It claims to have "the most moving Classical music of all time," and ...

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