Garrick Ohlsson

He is… captivating in the Waltzes, delivering the bel canto musical line with great tenderness and affection and applying rubato in a spontaneous and entirely unmannered fashion. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…Ohlsson brings a phenomenal variety of expression and depth of characterisation to these exquisite miniatures - an approach that manages to capture the folk elements of the composer's style... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Garrick Ohlsson approaches both sonatas with a high sense of drama. This is big-boned pianism that rarely lacks immediacy or drive. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

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. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Ohlsson commands a huge variety of tones, pays immense attention to detail, but contrives to be spontaneous and to keep each whole work always in view. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Not only does he catch the rhythm, but his feel for nuance and colour misses no element of Chopin’s infinite imagination, and the balance of earthiness and elegance is well-nigh ideal…Ohlsson... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25,... — BBC Music Magazine More…