Ohlsson maintained a sure sense of line and singing quality befitting the lyrical eloquence. Ohlsson's repertoire ranges from Haydn and Mozart to 20th century masters, and he has at his command some 70 works for piano and orchestra. In North America during the 1999-2000 season, he appeared as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Toronto, San Francisco, Oregon, Seattle, and Indianapolis. Also as part of the Great Performers series, Ohlsson was featured in a workshop on Liszt with piano authority David Dubal at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre. As one solution, you might try playing them together, if you had the necessary technical ease and stamina.
Few pianists do.
Garrick Ohlsson does. . . . He showed a similar rare command in the sonata, making the sprawling work seem, if not easy, everywhere in control. Yet his playing was fully expressive, that cumulative layering of controlled power turning grandiosity to grandeur. Ohlsson has recorded for the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, Bridge, BMG, Delos, Hanssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, and Virgin Classics labels. Ohlsson was born in White Plains, N.Y., where he began his piano studies at the age of eight.