Víkingur Ólafsson will return to Bourgie Hall for a pair of recitals featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Known ...
Video of the day: Víkingur Ólafsson's captivating Bach Gramophone Thursday, October 24, 2019 A mesmerising new film of our newly-crowned Artist of the Year Víkingur Ólafsson, playing the Andante from ...
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson captivated a sold-out audience at the Shanghai Symphony Hall on May 31 with a mesmerizing 75-minute performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations." ...
One could be excused for wondering if Icelandic pianist Vikingur Ólafsson had reached his limit on unearthing epiphanies when choosing to create an album and concert program set entirely in the 1780s, ...
When Víkingur Ólafsson was 8 years old, he threw a tantrum over Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As he tried to play the runs in the deceptive little Sonata facile in C major, the so-called "Easy Sonata," he ...
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It will not surprise fans of the probing, insightful pianist Víkingur Ólafsson that his newest project goes deep. Previously, he devoted an entire season of performances to Bach's Goldberg Variations- ...