Possessing a rare combination of passionate musicality, explosive
virtuosity and intellectual curiosity, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has
been heralded “Iceland’s Glenn Gould” by the New York Times (Anthony
Tommasini, August 2017). Before lighting up the international scene in
2016, Ólafsson won all the major prizes in his native country, including
four Musician of the Year prizes at the Icelandic Music Awards, and the
Icelandic Optimism Prize.
In September 2018 Víkingur Ólafsson released his new album on Deutsche Grammophon, Johann Sebastian Bach,
featuring an eclectic selection of the composer’s keyboard works. In an
ingeniously woven tapestry of diverse original compositions as well as
transcriptions from different eras, Ólafsson’s “inspired playing makes
Bach more human than we’ve heard in a long time” (Süddeutsche Zeitung,
2018). The Bach album follows on from the global success
(“Breathtakingly brilliant pianist” (Gramophone) of the Philip Glass
Etudes, Ólafsson’s debut recording for the label after signing as an
exclusive recording artist in 2016.
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