Garrick Ohlsson R3 live from the Wigmore Hall 19:30 6 Jan 2015

[Pianorak]

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London. 19:30 today

Garrick Ohlsson plays a programme of Scriabin's piano music.

Prelude in A minor Op. 11 No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19
Étude in Bb minor Op. 8 No. 11
Étude in Db Op. 8 No. 10
Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30
Piano Sonata No. 7 in F# Op. 64 'White Mass'
Désir Op. 57 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Op. 62
Étude in Db Op. 42 No. 1
Étude in C# minor Op. 42 No. 5
Fragilité Op. 51 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 5 in F# Op. 53

Garrick Ohlsson, piano.

[Pianorak]

Looking at seats still available Scriabin seems to be pure box office poison.

[ahinton]

Looking at seats still available Scriabin seems to be pure box office poison.

Might that accolade be directed instead to the pianist in order to account for slow ticket sales? I wouldn't have expected either Ohlsson or Scriabin to be that, personally...

[BBMmk2]

I heard that srabande by Handel from his keyboard suites this morning and bot imo poco adagio ma non tanto!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I heard that srabande by Handel from his keyboard suites this morning and bot imo poco adagio ma non tanto!!

Y'know on the Classical Associations Thread, when you asked for English translations, Bbm ...

[DracoM]

Weirdly, as GO was playing live at the Wigmore Hall, he was on Front Row talking to that egregious know-all John Wilson. BBC got their puffs and trails wrong somewhere? Surely he should,have been on LAST night to bump up what sounds like a pretty pitiful audience at WH?

[vinteuil]

I heard that srabande by Handel from his keyboard suites this morning and bot imo poco adagio ma non tanto!!

... I think, o BBM, that that was Andrei Gavrilov playing the 'Folia' sarabande by Handel this morning...

It certainly sounded like him - I think I have the twofer in which he and Richter share the Handel suites - and the BBC schedule has -




00:20

George Frideric Handel

Keyboard Suite No.11 in D minor HWV437 – Sarabande
Performer: Андрей Владимирович Гаврилов.
EMI.

[richardfinegold]

Ohlsson has played extensively at Ravinia, the Chicago SO Symphony Orchestra summer home, over the past 25 years or so and I have heard him many times.
I have his complete Chopin set (Hyperion, originally begun on Arabesque) and many of his Beethoven Sonatas.
He isn't my favorite Pianist, but I have never left a Concert of his feeling anything but elated. He takes risks and they don't always come off, but he leaves a distinct stamp on his interpretations, unlike many Musical robots being turned out by Conservatories. He has technique to match his intellect.
I 'like' my Scriabin in very small doses. The program sounds as enticing as being waterboarded for two hours.

[rauschwerk]

I admire Ohlsson's playing, particularly his superb account of Copland's concerto. I heard last night's recital as far as the fourth sonata, the fast music of which seemed disappointingly earthbound when compared with such accounts as those of Ashkenazy and Gavrilov.

[Pianorak]

the fourth sonata, the fast music of which seemed disappointingly earthbound

I agree. I would have liked greater dynamic variety in the 2nd and 4th sonatas, and I did miss the surging ebb and flow in the 2nd movement of the Sonata Fantasy compared with J.Plowright, N.Demidenko and V.Ashkenazy.

The program sounds as enticing as being waterboarded for two hours.

In which case I must be a masochist.

[Barbirollians]

Very much a to be avoided pianist for me . As I am sure I have recounted before a Brahms 1 in the late 1980s at the Proms was dire .

[richardfinegold]

Very much a to be avoided pianist for me . As I am sure I have recounted before a Brahms 1 in the late 1980s at the Proms was dire .

And apparently no chance of Artistic Growth over the intervening quarter century, apparently. Or of a change in your perceptions.

[BBMmk2]

... I think, o BBM, that that was Andrei Gavrilov playing the 'Folia' sarabande by Handel this morning...

It certainly sounded like him - I think I have the twofer in which he and Richter share the Handel suites - and the BBC schedule has -




00:20

George Frideric Handel

Keyboard Suite No.11 in D minor HWV437 – Sarabande
Performer: Андрей Владимирович Гаврилов.
EMI.

That's the one vinteul, thanks!

[Barbirollians]

And apparently no chance of Artistic Growth over the intervening quarter century, apparently. Or of a change in your perceptions.

I have heard him on the radio since a number of times and have never enjoyed his performances .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's the one vinteul, thanks!

What was the point that you were making in #4,please, Bbm?