Philip Glass Tribute

Possessing a rare combination of passionate musicality, explosive virtuosity and intellectual curiosity, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has won all the major prizes in his native country, including four Musician of the Year prizes at the Icelandic Music Awards as well as The Icelandic Optimism Prize. Víkingur’s 2016/17 season includes performances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen, a tour with Orkester Norden (Lawrence Foster) and concerts with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Yan Pascal Tortelier) and MDR Sinfonieorchester (Kristjan Järvi). Since February 2016 he has taken over from Martin Fröst as Artistic Director of Vinterfest in Sweden while continuing in the same role for the award-winning Reykjavík Midsummer Music, which he founded in 2012. In recital he will make his debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Berlin and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as well in Leipzig and at the Istanbul Music Festival. In 2009 Víkingur founded his own record label, Dirrindí, and has released three albums to date. The first two were solo discs: Debut (showing “exceptional perception and depth of maturity,” said EPTA Journal) and Bach / Chopin (prompting Piano News Magazine to say “Immense talent … you must listen to this young pianist!”). His third album was a double CD/DVD release of Winterreise with bass Kristinn Sigmundsson, which won the Album of the Year award at the Icelandic Music Awards 2012. In 2015 Víkingur recorded t

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Format: CD
Artist: Vkingur Lafsson
Release Date: 10 February 2017
Genre: Classical Music
Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (IMP)
Distributor: Universal Music