Vikingur Olafsson and Yuja Wang appeared at Carnegie Hall with a unified approach to works by Schubert, John Adams, Rachmaninoff and more.
Category: Olafsson, Vikingur
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John Adams and Vikingur Olafsson Join Forces for ”After the Fall’
After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world.
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Review: Philharmonic Returns to Classics, at Its Own Expense
Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
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Review: Vikingur Olafsson’s ‘Goldbergs’ Mesmerize Carnegie Hall
In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations.
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The Pianist Vikingur Olafsson on ‘History’s Greatest Keyboard Work’
Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, which Olafsson recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and is touring this season, is “like a life cycle.”
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Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty
The New York Times – Music:Stéphane Denève leads a program of extravagantly colorful French works, with the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as the soloist in a Ravel concerto.