Víkingur Ólafsson / Piano Recital

Bach: Goldberg Variations

This concert has already taken place! 24.20 | 35.50 | 52.30 | 63.60 | 74.80
This concert has already taken place! 24.20 | 35.50 | 52.30 | 63.60 | 74.80
Víkingur Ólafsson
Víkingur Ólafsson © Markus Jans
Laeiszhalle Hamburg
Laeiszhalle Hamburg © Maxim Schulz

At the summit

This is one of the summits of piano music. A pianist can spend his whole life walking around it, climbing it and taking it in. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, massive yet ineffably diverse, tower above all other works in the genre as a solitary summit.

Icelandic piano wizard Víkingur Ólafsson is devoting the entirety of his 2023/24 season to the famous aria with its 30 variations. We are looking forward with bated breath to his exploration of the Goldberg Variations! Back in 2018, Ólafsson made the classical music world prick up its ears with his first Bach album. And his unpretentious and inspired approach to the works of the great Baroque composer has lost none of its power to excite audiences.

Performers

Víkingur Ólafsson piano

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria and a set of 30 variations / Clavier Übung IV, BWV 988 »Goldberg Variations«

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Goldberg Variations

Promoter: Konzertdirektion Dr. Rudolf Goette / HamburgMusik

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