Archive for Patrick Rucker
Garrick Ohlsson and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos a Gramophone Editor’s Choice
The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recordings from Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra are a July 2023 Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice! “whenever [Sir Donald Runnicles] and [Garrick] Ohlsson collaborate, time is never spent in conversation beforehand about tempos, phrasing or other details. They simply begin making music together and thus, in an exercise of intuitive symbiosis, arrive at their joint interpretation. The result, as heard here, is a spacious,…
Gramophone Reviews Utah Symphony Mahler 8
Thierry Fischer, the Utah Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir‘s Mahler: Symphony No. 8 recording gets a rave review in Gramophone Magazine: “The Utah Symphony were the first American orchestra to record a complete Mahler cycle. Under Thierry Fischer, Utah’s music director since 2009, they have mounted another Mahler cycle in celebration of the orchestra’s 75th anniversary.…And a lovely thing it is. Thierry Fischer is clearly a Mahlerian to contend with, full of ideas and…