The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos Garrick Ohlsson, Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra & Sir Donald Runnicles

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 in C Major, Op. 15:
• 1 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 in C Major, Op. 15: I Allegro con brio 19:12
• 2 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II Largo 11:03
• 3 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III Rondo - Allegro 09:23
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in Bb Major, Op. 19:
• 4 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in Bb Major, Op. 19: I Allegro con brio 15:03
• 5 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in Bb Major, Op. 19: II Adagio 08:10
• 6 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2 in Bb Major, Op. 19: III Rondo - Allegro molto 06:32
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3 in C Minor, Op. 37:
• 7 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: Concerto No 3 - I Allegro con brio 17:25
• 8 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: Concerto No 3 - II Largo 09:58
• 9 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: Concerto No 3 - III Rondo - Allegro 09:57
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 4 in G Major, Op. 58:
• 10 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 4 in G Major, Op. 58: Concerto No 4 - I Allegro moderato 19:31
• 11 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 4 in G Major, Op. 58: Concerto No 4 - II Andante con moto 04:44
• 12 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 4 in G Major, Op. 58: Concerto No 4 - III Rondo - Vivace 10:28
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in Eb Major, Op. 73:
• 13 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in Eb Major, Op. 73: Concerto No 5 - I Allegro 21:01
• 14 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in Eb Major, Op. 73: Concerto No 5 - II Adagio un poco moto 07:52
• 15 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in Eb Major, Op. 73: Concerto No 5 - III Rondo - Allegro, ma non troppo 10:20
• Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43:
• 16 Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43 05:02
• Total Runtime 03:05:41

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Reference Recordings ist stolz darauf, die kompletten Beethoven-Klavierkonzerte zu präsentieren, gespielt von Grammy®-Preisträger Garrick Ohlsson, der mit dem Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra unter der Leitung von Sir Donald Runnicles auftritt. Dieses Album wurde während der Live-Aufführungen des Festivals im Juli 2022 aufgenommen.

Als Schüler des verstorbenen Claudio Arrau ist Ohlsson vor allem für seine meisterhaften Interpretationen der Werke von Mozart, Beethoven und Schubert sowie des romantischen Repertoires bekannt. Bis heute ist er der einzige Amerikaner, der den ersten Preis beim Internationalen Chopin-Klavierwettbewerb gewonnen hat. Ohlsson wurde außerdem für drei Grammy Awards® nominiert und gewann 2008 einen für die beste Instrumentalsolisten-Darbietung (ohne Orchester) für Beethovens Sonaten, Vol. 3. Diese neue Aufnahme stellt einen Höhepunkt in seiner Karriere dar.

Mehr als 60 Jahre nach seinen bescheidenen Anfängen, die in einem Zelt am Fuße der Tetons stattfanden, ist das Festival heute sowohl bei Zuhörern als auch bei Interpreten ein beliebtes Ziel, um den ganzen Sommer über klassische Musik vom Feinsten zu erleben. Das Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra besteht aus Spitzenkünstlern aus der ganzen Welt, darunter mehr als 220 Musiker aus 90 Orchestern und 65 Hochschulen, von denen viele seit über 25 Jahren jeden Sommer gemeinsam auftreten. Das 1962 gegründete Festival begrüßt außerdem jedes Jahr einige der gefragtesten Solisten und Gastkünstler der heutigen klassischen Musik. Unter der Leitung des weltberühmten Dirigenten Sir Donald Runnicles kommen diese Musiker seit 2005 zusammen, um sich von der Bergwelt inspirieren zu lassen und dem Festivalpublikum spektakuläre Musik zu bieten.

Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Musikdirektor des GTMF ist Sir Donald Runnicles seit 2009 Generalmusikdirektor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (DOB) und in seiner letzten Saison seit 2001 Erster Gastdirigent der Atlanta Symphony. Runnicles unterhält enge und dauerhafte Beziehungen zu vielen der bedeutendsten Opernhäuser und Sinfonieorchestern. Seine Einspielung von Wagner-Arien mit Jonas Kaufmann und dem Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin wurde 2013 mit dem Gramophone-Preis für die beste Gesangsaufnahme ausgezeichnet, und seine Aufnahme von Janáèeks Jenùfa mit dem Orchester und Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin wurde 2016 für einen GRAMMY® Award für die beste Opernaufnahme nominiert.

Reference Recordings, 1976 in San Francisco gegründet, hat mehrere GRAMMY®-Awards gewonnen und verfügt über einen Katalog mit zahlreichen amerikanischen und internationalen Orchestern, Ensembles und Chören. FRESH! ist Teil der Mission von Reference Recordings, einzigartige und herausragende Künstler zu fördern und ihnen eine starke Plattform für Promotion und Vertrieb auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene zu bieten.

Garrick Ohlsson, Klavier
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchesta
Sir Donald Runnicles, Dirigent

Garrick Ohlsson
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. 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. In 2018/19 season he launched an ambitious project spread over multiple seasons exploring the complete solo piano works of Brahms in four programs to be heard in New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Los Angeles, London and a number of cities across North America. In concerto repertoire ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Brahms and Barber, he returned to the Nashville, Oregon, Dallas Symphonies, Washington Kennedy Center with Melbourne Symphony and internationally with orchestras in Seoul, Helsinki, Zagreb, Tallinn, Manchester and London.

A frequent guest with the orchestras in Australia, Mr. Ohlsson has recently visited Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart as well as the New Zealand Symphony in Wellington and Auckland. In February 2020 he accomplished a seven city recital tour across Australia just prior to the closure of the concert world due to Covid-19. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo and Takacs string quartets, including most recently Boston Chamber Players on tour in Europe. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. Passionate about singing and singers, Mr. Ohlsson has appeared in recital with such legendary artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podleś.

Mr. Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels. His ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, for Bridge Records, has garnered critical acclaim, including a GRAMMY® for Vol. 3. His recording of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3, with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano, was released in 2011. In the fall of 2008 the English label Hyperion re-released his 16-disc set of the Complete Works of Chopin followed in 2010 by all the Brahms piano variations, “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, and music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes. Most recently on that label are Scriabin's Complete Poèmes, Smetana Czech Dances, and ètudes by Debussy, Bartok and Prokofiev. The latest CDs in his ongoing association with Bridge Records are the Complete Scriabin Sonatas, “Close Connections,” a recital of 20th-Century pieces, and two CDs of works by Liszt. In recognition of the Chopin bicentenary in 2010, Mr. Ohlsson was featured in a documentary "The Art of Chopin" co-produced by Polish, French, British and Chinese television stations. Most recently, both Brahms concerti and Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto were released on live performance recordings with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies on their own recording labels, and Mr. Ohlsson was featured on Dvorak's piano concerto in the Czech Philharmonic's recordings of the composer's complete symphonies & concertos, released July of 2014 on the Decca label.

A native of White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School, in New York City. His musical development has been influenced in completely different ways by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe. 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. Since then he has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland, where he retains immense personal popularity. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI. He is the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, and in August 2018 the Polish Deputy Culture Minister awarded him with the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit. He is a Steinway Artist and makes his home in San Francisco.

Sir Donald Runnicles
is the General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival (Jackson, Wyoming), as well as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He is also Conductor Emeritus of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, having served as its Chief Conductor from 2009 to 2016.

In 2018 Donald Runnicles was announced as Principal Guest Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Commencing in 2019 the Orchestra will engage in a three-year artistic project Music of Inspiration, under his direction.

Donald Runnicles also enjoys close and enduring relationships with several other of the most significant opera companies and symphony orchestras. His previous posts include Music Director of the San Francisco Opera (1992–2008), Principal Conductor of the Orchestra of St Luke’s in New York City (2001–2007), and General Music Director of the Theater Freiburg and Orchestra (1989–1993).

His extensive discography includes complete recordings of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Britten’s Billy Budd, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. His recording of Wagner arias with Jonas Kaufmann and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin won the 2013 Gramophone prize for Best Vocal Recording, and his recording of Janáček’s Jenůfa with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin was nominated for a 2015 GRAMMY award for Best Opera Recording.

Donald Runnicles was appointed OBE in 2004. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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