Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Everyone knows how to listen to music, just like we know how to drink water,’ says the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, ‘you just listen’. He makes it sound so simple – just like his breathtakingly poetic, internationally award-winning performances. Tonight he tackles one of the mightiest of all keyboard works – Bach’s Goldberg Variations, a fantastic, endlessly imaginative chain of musical puzzles from the profoundest depths of the human sou...