Special offer. Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Volume 1
Fantasie und Fuge & Piano Sonata
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
[the Fantasia and Fugue] is hugely, even monumentally difficult, and really needs a pianist of Garrick Ohlsson's magisterial technical resources to bring it off. The music has a sense of space...
Special offer. Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Volume 1
Fantasie und Fuge & Piano Sonata
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
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[the Fantasia and Fugue] is hugely, even monumentally difficult, and really needs a pianist of Garrick Ohlsson's magisterial technical resources to bring it off. The music has a sense of space...
About
On October 22, 2011, the musical world will celebrate the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt.
Garrick Ohlsson, one of the great piano virtuosi of the current era, contributes to the celebration with recordings of two of Liszt's towering achievements: the infrequently recorded Busoni transcription of Liszt's organ piece, “Fantasie und Fuge über den choral Ad nos, ad Salutarem Undam”, (To us, to the healing waters, come again) S. 259 and, the most beloved of all of Liszt's piano compositions, the Sonata in B Minor, S. 178.
Those who revel in great pianism need look no further than this spectacular program. Garrick Ohlsson also recently completed the recording 32 Beethoven sonatas for Bridge, a series which has been critically acclaimed.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
August 2011
[the Fantasia and Fugue] is hugely, even monumentally difficult, and really needs a pianist of Garrick Ohlsson's magisterial technical resources to bring it off. The music has a sense of space and grandeur that's remarkable even by Liszt's standards, and Ohlsson delivers it with an objective immensity that's enhanced by the sound of his chosen Bosendorfer...Ohlsson's performance of Busoni's mighty transcription makes this recording easily worth acquiring
August 2011
Weighing in with awe-inspiring strength, Ohlsson declares himself among today's most powerful pianists, making the piano the truest king of instruments.
