Garrick Ohlsson, piano

September 30, 2010 • 7:30 pm • $35/$30

 

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musican of magisterial interpreetive and technical prowess. A GRAMMY® Award winner, recipient of the 1994 Avery Fisher Prize and one of today's foremost exponents of the music of Frederic Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. This will be his third recital appearance for Chromatics.

Chopin Bicentennial Program

Chopin	Nocturne in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1
	Etudes, Op. 25, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
	Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
	Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
	Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
	Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3
	Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

 

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"Ohlsson reach[ed] technical and interpretive heights that
might have astonished the composer himself."
- Chicago Sun-Times

All concerts are presented at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Free pre-concert talks 1 hr before each concert at the Rensselaer County Historical Society.