Garrick Ohlsson Breaks Down Chopin Preludes | Ep. 1 The Chopin Podcast

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0:00 Chopin changed my life – No. 11 B major
3:34 Garrick's first LP – Rubinstein's Preludes
5:22 Favorite Prelude of the Romantics – No. 17 Ab major
9:36 Chopin's Beethovenian manuscript – No. 12 G# major
11:24 Continuity of the Preludes cycle – Nos. 3-7, 23-24
15:03 On improvisation
16:15 Chopin and Bach – No. 1 C major
20:06 Figuration Prelude – No. 8 F# minor
26:33 Preludes in the Chopin Competition
27:54 The ingenious "Raindrop" – No. 15 Db major
35:08 Virtuoso "Etude" – No. 16 Bb minor
38:16 Nail in the coffin – No. 24 D minor

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This video is part of my partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the United States, which presents the National Chopin Competition every 5 years. The partnership was forged on the eve of the 11th National Chopin Competition, to be held in Miami in January 2025.

The Chopin Foundation is a national non-profit organization founded by its President, Blanka A. Rosenstiel in 1977, and inspired by the first US Chopin Competition she presented in Miami in 1975.

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Special thanks to Abby Tilton and Mark Rau for their assistance in the production of this video.