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Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart

Live at the 鶹Լ Proms: award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Proms debut playing Bach and Mozart with the Philharmonia and Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi.

Live at the 鶹Լ Proms: award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Proms debut playing Bach and Mozart with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical'
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

8:00: Interval
Ian Skelly talks to tonight's soloist Víkingur Ólafsson and is joined live by Tasmin Little to discuss tonight's Prom.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491
Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat major

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor

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.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D minor, 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante [Adagio] (Transcr. Stradal)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave Verum Corpus (transcr. Liszt)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 9 in E flat major

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite No.2 in A minor: VII. Gavotte

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Aug 2021 19:30

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