Vikingur OlafssonPiano recital
This event is in the past.
In February 2025, Víkingur Ólafsson was awarded a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for his groundbreaking, visionary recording of the Goldberg Variations. This December, the “Glenn Gould of Iceland” returns to Munich with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op 109, as well as works by Brahms and Bach.
This event is in the past.
In February 2025, Víkingur Ólafsson was awarded a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for his groundbreaking, visionary recording of the Goldberg Variations. This December, the “Glenn Gould of Iceland” returns to Munich with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op 109, as well as works by Brahms and Bach.
In Ólafsson’s hands, Bach’s music becomes a “metaphor for human experience,” enthused the Sunday Times. “Personal yet universal, faithful yet radical, technically scintillating and emotionally uplifting, it’s a journey to the centre of the soul.” Ólafsson himself says that he got to know himself through performing Bach almost a hundred times all over the world last season and witnessed the unique impact of the composer’s message on people of different cultures: “It was a life-changing experience for which I will always be grateful.”
Even while Ólafsson was still on his world tour with the Goldberg Variations, he began to devote himself to Ludwig van Beethoven: Over the next few years, he will be recording the composer’s last three piano sonatas, with one of which – No 30 – this evening’s concert will conclude. This is preceded another of Beethoven’s sonatas as well as works by Bach and Schubert – all in the keys of E major and E minor.
Programme
- Bach: Prelude in E major, BWV 854 from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Volume 1)
- Beethoven: Sonata No 27 in E minor, Op 90
- Bach: Partita No 6 in E minor, BWV 830
- Schubert: Moderato and Allegretto from the Sonata in E minor, D 566
- Beethoven: Sonata No 30 in E major, Op 109
