Tag: Víkingur
Víkingur Ólafsson in the Prinzregententheater: Pianistic intoxication
The Icelandic Víkingur Ólafsson has been playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations for a year. During his performance at the Prinzregententheater he shows virtuosic brilliance and even circus-like ecstasy. source…
The pianist Víkingur Ólafsson: Poetry – culture begins behind mathematics
In the darkened concert hall of Elmau Castle, Johann Sebastian Bach’s legendary Goldberg Variations – a cycle of 30 variations on an “Aria” – sound as if from very far…
Munich: Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in the Prince Regent Theater. – Munich
By Klaus P Richter The program of pianist Víkingur Ólafsson from Reykjavik promised something of the lightness of being: Mozart, Haydn, Galuppi, Cimarosa, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. But it turned…
Munich: The Czech Philharmonic and Víkingur Ólafsson – Munich
Three years occupy heart and brain almost painfully, while in the Isarphilharmonie the Czech Philharmonic under its chief conductor Semyon Bychkov electrifies Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11. On November 9,…