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

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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¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Four on Sunday 15 August

Image: Víkingur Ólafsson