San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Repertoire
Aaron Copland: Concerto for Piano
Aaron Copland: Orchestral Variations
Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 2 (“Short Symphony”)
Aaron Copland: Symphonic Ode
Copland the Modernist is every bit as great a composer as Copland the Populist. With virtuoso pianist Garrick Ohlsson on the Piano Concerto, Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco perform Copland's vulgar, cerebral, harsh, and complex music with ease, assurance, and extraordinary panache, making it sound as brilliant, as beautiful, and as endearing as any of his later Populist music.AllMusic