92Y: Kirill Gerstein & Garrick Ohlsson, pianos, play Rachmaninoff, Ravel, & more
Online: $20 | In person: $25-$45 ($20 XYZ members)
- Kirill Gerstein, piano
- Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphonic Dances for Two Pianos, Op. 45
Ferruccio Busoni — Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256
Maurice Ravel — La Valse for Two Pianos
World-renowned piano virtuosos Kirill Gerstein and Garrick Ohlsson combine forces for a dazzling two-piano concert featuring great showpieces of the duo-piano repertoire.
Their program includes a suite from Thomas Adès smash-hit opera Powder Her Face, the exhilarating two-piano version of Rachmaninoff’s late, great Symphonic Dances, Busoni’s daring and imaginative Fantasia Contrappuntistica — conjuring Bach with a 20th-century sensibility — and Ravel’s spectacular, swirling La Valse in its two-piano version. Piano thrills and joy from two masters of the keyboard.
Attending online: Concert available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
Attending in person: Adults and children age 12+ must show proof of vaccination upon arrival at 92Y. Masks must be worn by everyone over the age of 2, regardless of vaccination status.
About 92NY
About Kirill Gerstein, piano
About Garrick Ohlsson, piano
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.
http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/garrick-ohlsson