Víkingur Ólafsson (Piano)
Born: 4th February 1984, Reykjavík
Nationality: Icelandic
Artist's website: https://vikingurolafsson.com
The Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson was born in Reykjavik in 1984 and trained at Juilliard. A specialist in contemporary music, he has premiered numerous concertos by Icelandic composers including Haukur Tómasson and Daniel Bjarnason as well as music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Mark Simpson. Ólafsson signed with Deutsche Grammophon in 2016, and his debut album on the label (a Philip Glass recital, marking the composer’s 80th birthday) was praised in Gramophone as ‘unique, distinct and extraordinary’ as well as being one of the New York Times’s Top Recordings of 2017; an all-Bach album followed the next year, and was described as ‘fresh, expressive and joyous’ by the Sunday Times.
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Recording of the Week,
A slow-brewed Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson
The Icelandic pianist presents the results of twenty-five years of thoughtful preparation, in a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations that combines control and spontaneity, limpid gentleness and furious virtuosic energy.
Interview,
Víkingur Ólafsson on From Afar
The Icelandic pianist recounts how meeting 'living legend' György Kurtág in Budapest last summer inspired his latest album - part 'fan-letter' to the composer himself and part musical autobiography...
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