Garrick Ohlsson / Photo by Paul Body
The American pianist Garrick Ohlsson will play Chopin with the Minnesota Orchestra Feb. 18-20.
To hear him play (a wonderful Mazurka in C Sharp Minor, and three Preludes) go here. In this recent audio clip from WNYC radio in New York, Ohlsson talks about winning a prestigious Chopin piano competition as a young man, and why he thinks it's laughable when people characterize Chopin as "a tubercular, neurasthenic genius, his pen dipped in perfume, who wrote nocturnes for lovesick contessas."
