This one is perhaps my favourite of all his albums. Listen to it from the first note to the last. Colossal.
Víkingur Ólafsson
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Víkingur Ólafsson
@VikingurMusic
- The intensity of Mozart's C-minor piano sonata never fails to amaze me. It is a work of staggering contrasts with virtuosic writing which pushed the instruments of the 1780s to their limits (I have a square piano from 1785 which almost breaks every time I play this sonata on it).
00:00 - Thinking of Lars and his closest ones in these very sad times 💔 the kindest man and most wonderful artist, he sent me this last text 2 weeks ago before I went on stage somewhere. I keep thinking about these words, to the point, true and beautiful as was the man and his music.❤️
- Maurizio Pollini 5.1.1942-23.3.2024 “Don’t listen to your mother”, dad would whisper to me when she criticized Pollini for what she described as overly objective perfectionism. For dad, an architect and a composer, Pollini’s structural approach revealed new truths about even…
- God Save the Queen ❤️🇬🇧 Thinking of all my friends in Great Britain today.
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- This is a very special piece of music to me; can you guess who composed it?
00:00 - ❤️ I just found out that the only other Grammy for a Goldberg recording went to Mr Gould in 1983, posthumously for his glorious second studio recording of the work. Can’t wait to play in Toronto next weekend.We're thrilled to congratulate our friend Vikingur Ólafsson on winning his first-ever Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his incredible interpretation of Bach's "Goldberg Variations". Celebrate Ólafsson's achievement by congratulating him in the comments below!
- Bach turns limited material into boundless variety like no one before or since. Watch the full video for Variation 1 🎥 youtu.be/vn-g510Zxng
00:00 - I am so happy to receive my first Grammy nomination! Thank you @RecordingAcad + all of you who listen to and support my work ❤️ And thank you JS Bach - The Goldberg Variations will always be the music of the future. #grammynoms @DGclassics
- Variation 15; this incredible lament that concludes the first part of the Goldberg Variations.
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