[BROADCAST] Tanglewood Presents: Recitals from the World Stage – Garrick Ohlsson from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (through 8/26/2020)
$8 / $42 / $100
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 "à Thérèse"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"
Longtime BSO collaborator Garrick Ohlsson, who performed all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at Tanglewood in 2006, performs two of the series in a recital from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Beethoven dedicated his two-movement 1809 F-sharp sonata, Op. 78, to one of his students among the nobility, the Countess Thérèse von Brunsvik. At the other end of the spectrum from this lovely and brief two-movement sonata is composer’s most muscular and ambitious sonata, the four-movement "Hammerklavier". Formally innovative and including a towering fugue in its last movement, the "Hammerklavier" is one of the defining works of Beethoven’s final decade.
Available August 19, 2020 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific, through August 26.
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About Garrick Ohlsson
Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montréal Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal (and remains the single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation.
Although long regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date, he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st Century, many commissioned for him.
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