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Close Connections

Garrick Ohlsson

Close Connections

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404938023
Catnr: BRIDG 9380
Release date: 10 January 2014
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Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404938023
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9380
Release date
10 January 2014
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About the album

Titanic American pianist, Garrick Ohlsson, presents an exceptionally personal album. The pianist writes: “Each of the five pieces on this recording is a work I have been closely associated with. Two were written for me and I’ve played all of them frequently. Music of our time always needs advocates; it needs live performance, but it also needs a way to exist for reference beyond the printed score. Each of these five composers has given me an inestimable gift. It’s time for me to give thanks, in return.” Mr. Ohlsson’s virtuosic performances are accompanied by his very personal written commentary on the composers, their music, and their times.
Garrick Ohlsson spielt Klavierwerke, die für ihn einen ganz persönlichen Stellenwert haben. Ausdrucksstark und überzeugend.

Der amerikanische Pianist Garrick Ohlsson präsentiert ein außergewöhnlich persönliches Album mit Werken, zu denen er eine besonders enge Beziehung hat. Zwei davon wurden direkt für ihn komponiert, alle spielte er in vielen Konzerten. Ohlsson selber weiss, dass zeitgenössische Musik viel Überzeugungkraft benötigt, oft in Konzerten gespielt werden muss, damit die Zuhörer sich bereitwillig damit auseinandersetzen. „Jeder dieser fünf Komponisten hat mir ein unschätzbares Geschenk bereitet. Es ist Zeit, mich dafür zu bedanken“, sagt der Pianist dazu.
Seine virtuose Einspielung wird im Booklet begleitet von Ohlssons persönlichen und kompetenten Kommentaren zu den Komponisten, ihrer Musik und den dazugehörigen Umständen.

CLOSE CONNECTIONS
Louis Weingarden: Triptych (1969)
Robert Helps: Shall We Dance (1994)
Stefan Wolpe: Passacaglia (1936)
William Hibbard: Handwork (1996)
Oldrich Franticek Korte: Sonata (1951-53)

Artist(s)

Garrick Ohlsson

Winner of the 8th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (1970), the Busoni Competition (1966) and the Montreal Piano Competition (1968). His development was influenced by Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhevinne and Irma Wolpe. For a long time, he was regarded above all as one of the leading interpreters of the music of Chopin, but his repertoire covers virtually the whole piano literature (more than eighty concertos, from Haydn and Mozart to the twenty- first century, including many works composed specially for him). He has recently performed in Liverpool and Madrid, toured the US with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Yuri Temirkanov) and given a series of recitals in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, Prague...
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Winner of the 8th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (1970), the Busoni Competition (1966) and the Montreal Piano Competition (1968). His development was influenced by Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhevinne and Irma Wolpe.

For a long time, he was regarded above all as one of the leading interpreters of the music of Chopin, but his repertoire covers virtually the whole piano literature (more than eighty concertos, from Haydn and Mozart to the twenty- first century, including many works composed specially for him). He has recently performed in Liverpool and Madrid, toured the US with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Yuri Temirkanov) and given a series of recitals in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, Prague and Hawaii. As a keen chamber musician, he has worked with the Takacs, Emerson, Cleveland and Tokyo quartets. He is co-founder of the FOG Trio (with cellist Michael Grebanier and violinist Jorja Fleezanis); he has also performed with such outstanding artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman and Ewa PodleE. He has made many recordings for such labels as Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hanssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classic. He gained critical acclaim for his 10-disc album with the complete Beethoven sonatas (Bridge Records), one of which won a Grammy (2008). He has also recorded Scriabin’s, Smetana’s Czech Dances, etudes by Debussy, Bartók and Prokofiev (Hyperion), Close Connections, featuring contemporary works, a double album of sonatas by Liszt and Scriabin (Bridge Records) and recently solo music by Manuel de Falla.
He also appears in the documentary film The Art of Chopin (2010), produced for the Chopin Year celebrations. In 2015, Garrick Ohlsson was a juror of the 17th Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In 2018, Garrick Ohlsson was honoured by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage with the ‘Gloria Artis’ gold medal for propagating Polish music around the world.


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