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Víkingur Ólafsson plays Brahms

Name: Víkingur Ólafsson plays Brahms
Start: 2024-11-06T19:30:00
Location: Royal Festival Hall

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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‘Magical’. ‘Flawless’. ‘A hypnotic presence at the keyboard’. We’re thrilled to welcome Víkingur back for Brahms’s tempestuous First Piano Concerto: a volcano of poetry and emotion from the wounded heart of a young genius. It could have been written for Ólafsson – but there’s no letting up after the interval, as Edward Gardner conducts Bartók’s kaleidoscopic ballet, and celebrates the special magic of one of the 21st century’s true sonic alchemis...

Program

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1

Composer

Béla Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin

Composer

Freya Waley-Cohen - Mother Tongue

Participants

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Víkingur Ólafsson

Piano

Edward Gardner

Conductor