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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Years in the making, out 6th October. The Aria is available to hear now 🎧 Photo Credit: Markus Jans

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

This one is perhaps my favourite of all his albums. Listen to it from the first note to the last. Colossal.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

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).

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

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.❤️

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

8 months

Dreams come true ⁦ @carnegiehall ⁩

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 months

When Grigory Sokolov comes to your concert ❤️

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

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…

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Today is the day.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

God Save the Queen ❤️🇬🇧 Thinking of all my friends in Great Britain today.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

7 months

Please respect the law! 😅 #LoveYourRecordShop #London

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

This is a very special piece of music to me; can you guess who composed it?

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Bach turns limited material into boundless variety like no one before or since. Watch the full video for Variation 1 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

Variation 15; this incredible lament that concludes the first part of the Goldberg Variations.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

11 months

Variation 15 - nothing quite prepares you for this tragic G-minor following the Aria and first 14 variations all in joyous G-major.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Bach was equally famous for being a great virtuoso of the keyboard and a great improvisor, as well as a composer, in his own time 🎹 Listen to Variation 1 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

Bach's Aria and Variation 1 from the 2023 OPUS Klassik Awards at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with @DGClassics 🎶 Watch the full performance on YouTube 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

There were so many excellent guesses, but the truth is that this is called 'Advent' and it was written by my father, Ólafur Óskar Axelsson, who is an architect and composer. I have so many childhood memories of dad playing this little psalm softly on our Steinway during advent ☺️

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Years in the making, out now 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

Can live with this company

Alexander Fu

@aleeexfu

10 months

@VikingurMusic you are my top (living) Spotify artist!

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

My pole star.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

8 months

Tiny Desk. Stay tuned. @nprclassical @nprmusic

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I'd like to take a moment to share some very simple tips that you might like to consider the next time you're entertaining friends or family with this wonderful piece of music 🎄 #ChristmasCover #SilentNight

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I woke up with a few butterflies in my stomach: ‘From Afar’ is finally out!! I am indebted to many people in the making of this album, but one more than anyone else: György Kurtág, whose unequalled art lies somewhere between the tectonic plates of poetry and music. #releaseday 🦋

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Potentially the most beautiful place I've ever performed 🎹 Visit the YouTube premiere page now and hit the bell for a reminder:

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I’ve been in the US for 3 days and during my stay, the Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t freely control who gets to carry a gun in public, but that they CAN control the reproductive future of women. When will these people cease to be called “Justices”? #RoeVWade

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

It’s Release Day! I recently arranged and recorded some of my favourite cantata movements by J.S. Bach. Have a listen to ‘Es ist Vollbracht’ from Cantata 159, in my opinion one of Bach’s most tender and inspired arias, surprisingly rarely heard:

Johann Sebastian Bach, Víkingur Ólafsson - Cantata, BWV 12: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Arr....

Listen to Cantata, BWV 12: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Arr. Ólafsson for Piano) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Víkingur Ólafsson.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

8 months

Honour to have you in the audience @JoyceCarolOates

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

8 months

Stunning interpretation of the Goldberg Variations by Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson. Where Gould is icily precise Olafsson is astonishingly vulnerable, subtle.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

The French + toccatas = true ❤️ Ravel warm-up ahead of @Musikverein debut this weekend with @viennasymphony and @itselimchan

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

4 years

🥇Gold record awarded for my Bach album🏅Somewhere north of 100.000 sold worldwide - and I have 125 million streams since signing to @DGclassics 4 years ago 🥰 So many people are listening to classical music and I am so thankful to my amazing listeners. @HarrisonParrott

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Everything is there in Bach's music: architectural perfection and profound emotion 🎶 Watch the video 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I'd like to introduce you to ... my pianos! 🌍 🎹 #WorldPianoDay #Piano

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

It is something else to be in a room with 5.000 people post-lockdown and play Bach and Mozart. I am beyond grateful to all who made it happen, and all who came to be with us in the music.

Adam Ramiz

@AdamRamiz

3 years

I have been to many classical concerts, but tonight's @bbcproms was the most wonderful and emotional of all. I loved it utterly. The first Vikingur Olafsson @VikingurMusic Bach encore brought tears to my eyes. 💕

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I just heard the extremely sad news about Radu Lupu’s passing. Lupu brought a lot of lasting beauty to our world. May he rest in peace in the company of Mozart and Schubert.

Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 A major K 488 Radu Lupu Sándor Végh

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Klavierkonzert in A-Dur, KV 488Piano Concerto No 23 A major K 488Radu Lupu, pianoSándor Végh conducts Wiener PhilhamonikerAllegro in ...

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

It was a pleasure to perform this Bach piece, arranged by György Kurtág, with my wife Halla 🎹 Watch the full version on YouTube now:

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

On this day 5 years ago I released my debut album on @DGclassics with the music of @philipglass to honour him on his 80th birthday. It has been quite a ride ever since. ❤️💙❤️to my incredible and dedicated fans all over the world who have streamed my work more than 300m times!🥰

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

What an honour ✨Sunday Times Classical Album of the Year✨ selected by @jessicaduchen @thetimes . Thank you - also to the wonderful people of the UK for keeping me in the top spot in the classical specialist charts for 7 weeks! @DGclassics

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Unforgettable to visit György Kurtág in his home in Budapest and giving him From Afar - which is dedicated to him. He gave me scores with dedications and Hungarian cookies ☺️ My favourite living musician, my inspiration.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

5 years

🎉DEBUSSY RAMEAU IS OUT TODAY🎉Listen here: @DGclassics @HarrisonParrott @encore_artists #vikingurolafsson #debussyrameau

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

03.09.2021 @DGclassics

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

Happy birthday John Williams. 90 years is still very young compared to Yoda’s 900+ ! #YodasTheme #JohnWilliams #JohnWilliams90

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

5 months

THIS! See you @bbcproms @BerlinPhil Kirill Petrenko (and Mr. Schumann)

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

I am thrilled to share with you the cover of my new album, From Afar, which I’ve spent the last 9 months working on, and which is out on October 7th. Today the first single is out, Ave María by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns, and it is dedicated to my wife Halla

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

💫MOZART & CO IS OUT TODAY 💫 Listen/order: @DGclassics

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

The secretive whisper of an upright or the big stories of a grand? Listen to From Afar and decide for yourself! @DGclassics

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

The Musikverein…! Words can hardly describe it ❤️ @Musikverein @itselimchan @viennasymphony

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

First time over 100m streams on @Spotify - a great year. Thanks to all of you - also those on the other platforms! Whatever anyone says, ours is a golden age for classical music. It has never before been listened to by so many people, from so many different cultures.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

💙🙏

Alexandre Tharaud

@atharaud

6 months

Edvard Grieg à quatre-mains, avec mon cher @VikingurMusic

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Ahead of tomorrow's release, a magnificent 5 ⭐️ review from @TheTimes "As soon as the theme gets under way, we know great pleasures are in store. Ólafsson's phrasing is so graceful, his articulation playful yet exact. The effect is utterly beguiling."

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

4 years

Home in Iceland, free from another quarantine (60 days since September) but then caught a typical kindergarten cold. Thanks for all the sweet messages. 37 is very exciting: Our 2nd son will be born, 2 new albums coming out, vaccinations happening and the world awakening again💙🥳

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Wonderful to hear and catch up with ⁦ @houghhough ⁩ 👏for a very beautiful Rach 2 with ⁦ @IcelandSymphony ⁩ last night ahead of their UK tour.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Need to work on my hair #5thbeatle #liverpool 📸 @SParrRoberts

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Flying home for Christmas, more than ready to recharge after such an intense year. I’m looking for book and album recommendations as I finally have free time to listen and to read… any tips?

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

10 months

When you are told, just before going on stage, that György Kurtág is attending, it’s like having a triple-espresso. Müpa, Budapest, 29.11.2023. Look forward to playing a very special, all-Kurtág concert in 2026 to celebrate his 100th birthday. Photo Nagy Attila

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Let me show you my most important place 🇮🇸

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

A true master has passed. I was in awe of Sakamoto. We were toying with the idea of a collaboration. But one shouldn’t toy with such ideas. One should make them happen. He did a rework of otherworldly beauty for my Bach Reworks album back in 2019 ❤️RIP💔

BWV 974 - II Adagio - Rework

Song · Víkingur Ólafsson, Ryuichi Sakamoto · 2019

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Happy 90th dear Glenn 👑 I’m listening to my favourite performance of the Goldbergs (live ‘59) and feeling so grateful for all the new ideas, the new ways of playing and thinking music GG left us. For having been the first pianist in history to..

Glenn Gould Live in Salzburg 1959. Bach: Goldberg Variations

There are three complete live recordings in existence of Gould playing the Goldberg Variations: 1954 for CBC radio; 1958 in Vancouver, and this one, performe...

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

What you don't see shooting a music video in Iceland! 🇮🇸

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

🪄Happy 60th to the one and only @paavo_jarvi !

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

How to transport a piano in Iceland! 🎹

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

230 years ago, on this day, Mozart died. One afternoon in 1791, his final year, he composed these 3 and a half minutes of music which can change the way we think and feel about our whole existence. This was my 2nd encore at the @bbcproms this year ❤️

BBC Proms Exclusive Encore: Mozart's Ave verum (BBC Proms 2021)

Víkingur Ólafsson plays Mozart's Ave verum corpus, transcription by Franz Liszt.Watch more from the Proms 2021 and selected archive Proms on BBC iPlayer: htt...

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

First time playing for (and with) the magnificent creatures that are the Austrian cows. Tutti bravi dear 🐄 ! Immaculate 🔔 counterpoint w the Goldberg Variations, Bach would have smiled. What a day in the Austrian alps. One doesn't know Austria from only going to Vienna ❤️ 🇦🇹

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

“A hypnotic reading that added up to considerably more than the sum of the work’s 32 parts” - @Guardian

Víkingur Ólafsson review – Icelandic pianist brings magic and spontaneity to Bach

Performing the Goldberg Variations to a packed and tangibly engaged hall, this was a hypnotic reading that added up to considerably more than the sum of the work’s 32 parts.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

16 days

Great meeting @SalmanRushdie after his inspiring hour long conversation w my (much) better half @hallatweets for a full house as Sir Rushdie received the Halldór Laxness Literary Prize in Reykjavík tonight. I would have loved another couple of hours listening to these two🤩

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Filling a beautiful space with an Aria 🎶 #ClassicalMusic #BehindTheSong #Bach #Goldberg

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

The Goldberg Variations reflect all your weaknesses and all your strengths; you cannot hide behind anything 🎶 Listen to Variation 1 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

..the most familiar warhorses, made any piece of music an essential part of our time. With Pollini things were never simple - Chopin became the musical architect, Stockhausen the poet, Beethoven the philosopher.Many of us became better listeners and players. May he rest in peace.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

With my new record, Goldberg Variations, out next week, I wanted to know what are your all time favourite recordings, and why❓

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Just 1 week until Goldberg Variations is out. Watch the music video to the Aria now exclusively on @AppleMusic 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

I love to finish my day playing this timeless Bach arrangement, Bach/Siloti: Prelude in B minor 🎹 Watch the video 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Throwback to 2011, my first ever Bach recording - Partita No 2, Rondeaux.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

Variation 13 is a personal favourite of mine! Listen now on your streaming platform of choice 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

5 years

What a night ! Thank you for the most wonderful honour ! @GramophoneMag #ArtistOfTheYear #2019 #GramoAwards @DGclassics @HarrisonParrott @encore_artists

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Greetings from Iceland on November 16th; the day we celebrate our language 🇮🇸 Góðan daginn! #IcelandicLanguageDay

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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11 months

To me this is the aria of all arias. Goldberg Variations is out now 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Amazing to think it’s been 4 years since this album was released. More Bach coming soon☺️

Heather Wastie

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2 years

Loving this album by @VikingurMusic - sensitive and moving interpretations of #Bach ’s keyboard music.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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1 year

An oldie but a goodie😇

Lea

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1 year

Time stands still whenever I hear this. On repeat play these days. Thank you @VikingurMusic and JS Bach 🙏

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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2 years

Piano tuning in the cold 🎹 @DGclassics #behindthescenes #Iceland #musicvideo

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

This is the greatest honour I could receive! Last recipient of the musical prize was György Kurtág. The other winners this year are some of my favourite thinkers: architect Rem Koolhaas, logician David Kaplan and mathematician Jonathan S. Pila.

HarrisonParrott Group

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2 years

Congratulations @VikingurMusic on receiving the 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Musical Arts! 👏 "I'm grateful for this inspiration & opportunity for wonder — to escape my own area of expertise to marvel at that of my distinguished fellow laureates." More info:

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1 year

Variation 13 has this gentleness, simplicity; and the way the melody is sort of hovering on and off the beat! Listen now on your streaming platform of choice 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

6 months

I was told it’s sold-out 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

Gillian Russell

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6 months

At Melbourne Recital Centre, waiting for @VikingurMusic !

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8 months

Favourite news all year!🤩

BBC Music Magazine

@MusicMagazine

8 months

NEWS: Manchester City footballer Nathan Aké to donate pianos to deprived schools, having taught himself the piano during lockdown.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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1 year

In the midst of this stream of Bach, I want to share with you the gently graceful "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" which continuously juxtaposes the harmonic novelty of the pentatonic scale with more conventional harmonies to create a musical image that is at once dreamy and tangible.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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1 year

It would all mean nothing without Bach 🎶 Watch the video 🎥 #ThrowbackThursday

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@VikingurMusic

3 years

If only my name was bit a easier to write… @DGclassics

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@VikingurMusic

8 months

What he said ☺️

John Adams

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8 months

Nice to see this "sold out" notice. He will play the Goldbergs @calperformances May 4th. That too is sold out. But stay tuned, he might possibly possibly return very soon to SF, playing music by a different composer. That one not yet sold out...

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1 year

Goldberg Variations is available to order now on multiple beautiful formats including limited edition crystal clear vinyl, limited edition white label vinyl, standard vinyl, and CD, with exclusive signed art card bundles in limited supply 🎧

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3 years

Artist of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022✨ I feel very lucky to come from this island full of unique musicians.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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4 years

In 75 minutes I will be FREE from 14 day quarantine in Tokyo and to celebrate this milestone will play 8 concerts around the country with the inimitable @SayakaShoji , finishing in @SuntoryHallE on 23 December. 🥳

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5 months

Release Day 🥳 Listen to my new arrangement from my favourite cantata by JS Bach: @DGclassics 🙏

Johann Sebastian Bach, Víkingur Ólafsson - Cantata, BWV 12: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Arr....

Listen to Cantata, BWV 12: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Arr. Ólafsson for Piano) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Víkingur Ólafsson.

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1 year

Variation 1 is a dramatic masterpiece in how it follows the Aria, almost like a splash of cold water in the face. It's out now 🎧

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Víkingur Ólafsson

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1 year

As each variation unfolds, one must be wholly gripped by its individual drama and affect, drawn into its own marvellous little microcosm and filled with the joy of discovering it 🎹 Order the album 🎧

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1 year

Album covers often have their own stories to tell …

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11 months

Variation 15; nothing prepares you for it. You had G major from the Aria and the first 14 variations - the brightest of music, the happiest of times - and then this happens 🎶 Watch the full video on YouTube 🎥

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1 year

Marking one year since the release of Ave María and the beginning of my From Afar journey 🙌 🎂 Watch the video 🎥

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

One of my favourite moments in concert this year was sitting in the audience in Igor’s recital in Hamburg in December, hearing this achingly beautiful music, so touchingly played by Igor and masterfully arranged by Busoni:

6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10

Provided to YouTube by Sony Classical6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10 · Igor Levit · Johannes Brahms · Ferruccio BusoniEn...

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

Dad turned 70 yesterday. To celebrate I played a concert of his music for friends and family in Harpa. He is a bit of a renaissance man - a wonderful composer, brilliant architect and a poet. He is also the best grandfather my boys could have. Pictures from 1985 and yesterday.

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

1 year

The piano for me is the greatest instrument 🎹 Watch the full piece on Deutsche Welle:

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

8 months

Grateful for a sold-out tour in Quebec City, Montreal, Philadelphia, Houston, Minneapolis x2, Washington, Toronto x2, New York City, Princeton, Boston - it’s been a grand time in N-America. Ready to go home tonight, turn 40 on Wednesday, and play @HarpaReykjavik on 14/16/18 Feb!

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

3 years

Pachelbel may have made this chord sequence famous but Rameau did it even better, if you ask me. #TheArtsAndTheHours #transcription #rameau #vikingurolafsson

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Víkingur Ólafsson

@VikingurMusic

2 years

Kurtág once said to me “there is nothing like playing together with your wife”. It was an unforgettably tender moment.

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

@DGclassics

2 years

🎥 @VikingurMusic performs with his wife, Halla Oddný Magnúsdottir, in Kurtág’s transcription of "Christe, du Lamm Gottes", from Bach's Orgelbüchlein. Watch the video now:

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