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 is proud to present The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos played by Grammy®-winning Garrick Ohlsson, performing with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. This album was recorded during live Festival performances in July 2022.

A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson is especially noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date, he is the only American ever to win first prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. Ohlsson has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards®, winning one in 2008 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) for Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3. This new recording represents a pinnacle in his career.

More than 60 years since its humble beginnings performing in a tent at the base of the Tetons, the Festival is now sought after for both listeners and performers alike as a destination to experience the finest in classical music throughout the summer. The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra consists of top talent from across the world, including more than 220 musicians from 90 orchestras and 65 institutions of higher learning, many performing together each summer for over 25 years. The Festival, founded in 1962, also welcomes yearly some of the most soughtafter soloists and visiting artists in classical music today. Under the baton of world-renowned conductor Sir Donald Runnicles since 2005, these musicians come together to gather inspiration from the mountain setting and to provide spectacular music for Festival audiences.

In addition to being Music Director of GTMF, Sir Donald Runnicles is General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (DOB) since 2009, and in his final season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony since 2001. Runnicles enjoys close and enduring relationships with many of the most significant opera companies and symphony orchestras. 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 Janáèek's Jenùfa with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin was nominated for a 2016 GRAMMY® award for Best Opera Recording.

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Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchesta
Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

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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