Browse: Garrick Ohlsson Beethoven (series)

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…

Almost violent dynamic contrasts are frequent, but Ohlsson takes them as far as is idiomatic but no further. Even more important, there are no 'bridge passages' in these performances, everything... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

…lucid, detailed, forthright readings, the most successful being the first, Op. 22 in B flat. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ohlsson's performance of Op. 2 No. 1 is immaculate… The Appassionato has a swelling, rolling first movement which does it full justice; a rather mannered second movement… and a last movement... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With a flawless technique, and recorded in such sumptuous sound, Ohlsson doesn't miss a trick...The sonorous grandeur of his playing, combined with his alertness in Beethoven's ever-present subversiveness,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is great playing. …everything here is refreshing, in works which so often sound stale. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…