Garrick Ohlsson – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonPianist Garrick Ohlsson's recital at the Wigmore Hall, programmed with wonderful intelligence, was all about contrasted pairings – Handel with Brahms, Liszt with Scriabin. Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, exemplifying its composer's classically inflected Romanticism, was prefaced by Handel's own Suite No 2 in F, a maverick work with an inner logic all its own. The harmonic experimentation of Scriabin's late piano music, meanwhile, has its roots in extreme...

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