Unique lecture with Garrick Ohlsson; “Why Chopin? and Other Questions”
At University of California, Berkely, The Townsend Center’s Forum on the Humanities and the Public World presents eminent artists, political leaders, writers, and scholars, each representing a unique discipline, viewpoint, and medium. The series brings the humanities into dialogue with the critical issues at play in the public sphere. The Townsend Center at UC Berkeley has a long and distinguished […]
Garrick Ohlsson and Chopin´s Complete Works on Hyperion
“This is an oustanding achievement, which any genuine Chopin lover and student of Romantic music should own … A landmark in the recording of Chopin’s music … Garrick Ohlsson and Hyperion deserve the greatest success in bringing this important undertaking to such a consistently impressive conclusion” (International Record Review) Garrick Ohlsson was the first American to win first prize in […]
Marathon Men – Two Complete Beethoven Sonatas Projects to Achieve Completion during 2009
Daniel Barenboim is not the only one to have successfully had the complete Beethoven sonatas on his agenda lately. A Grammy nominee for “Best Classical Album (Without Orchestra)” for the second volume of his Complete Beethoven Sontata recordings for ECM, András Schiff began in 2004, a series of performances in Europe in which he explored the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas […]