The June 2023 issue of International Piano has a rave review for Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles, and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra’s recording of The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos:
“Garrick Ohlsson’s view of the canon reaffirms this authority as a discerning Beethovenian with noble things to impart. … The freshness of these performances, from the 2022 Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, lies in their open-faced honesty. Gleamingly, they promise us the certainty that no note or angle will be mislplaced, that the adventure of what Beethoven penned – rhythm, articulation, dynamics, texture – is what we’ll get. … Impeccable clarity and architecture, enveloping gran espressione (the Second’s Adagio), palatial tonal depth, sculpted sonority and thespian sovereignty are hallmarks of the music-making. … Runnicles, as you’d expect, excels, on the one hand precision concerto partner, on the other powerful symphonist. …the lines of the Lucerne or Estonian initiatives, the hand-picked Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra set first-class standards. …the recording is classically purist and invitingly ambient… A rejuvenating investment.”
—Ateş Orga, International Piano