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14 Aug 2021, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2021 Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart

Prom 17
Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart
19:30 Sat 14 Aug 2021 Royal Albert Hall
Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Proms debut playing Bach and Mozart under the Philharmonia Orchestra with Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi.
Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Proms debut playing Bach and Mozart under the Philharmonia Orchestra with Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi.

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Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements frame a ravishing central Adagio, and Mozart’s pioneering Piano Concerto K491, a rare minor-key work whose stormy, richly orchestrated music climaxes in a relentless dance. The Philharmonia Orchestra and Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi frame the concert with two symphonies: Prokofiev’s playful ‘Classical’ Symphony, with its clever juxtaposition of traditional forms and contemporary colours, and the more loaded irony of Shostakovich’s compact Symphony No. 9.

Broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four on Sunday 15 August

Image: Víkingur Ólafsson