Highlights | UMG and Warner Music Layoffs, Canadians Win International Opera Competitions
Off the back of numerous music industry layoffs in 2023, Universal Music Group and Atlantic Music Group have announced their own rounds of job cutting.
Browsing: Víkingur Ólafsson
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Newswire | Bourgie Hall Acquires New Steinway Model D from Hamburg
Bourgie Hall will be inaugurating its new concert grand piano—a Steinway Model D from Hamburg—with a series of four concerts at the start of November.
CD Review | Goldberg Variations (Deutsche Grammophon, 2023)
Goldberg Variations Víkingur Ólafsson, piano Deutsche Grammophon, October 2023 This Icelandic pianist knows Johann Sebastian Bach like the back of his hand. In his latest…
Bourgie Hall: New Season, Great Ambitions
Now sharing duties as programmers for Salle Bourgie, Olivier Godin and Caroline Louis are going about it in something of a four-handed way, their predecessor…
Review | TSO with Gimeno and Olafsson: Superb Mozart and Spectacular Berlioz
It is not often that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) features a soloist from Iceland, nor does it frequently play music by Icelandic composers. Yet…
Newswire | The Royal Conservatory Announces Its 15th Concert Season
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY’S 2023-24 CONCERT SEASON. OVER 80 CONCERTS IN UNIQUELY CURATED SERIES SPECIAL EVENT Concert to Commemorate the National…
CD Review | From Afar (Deutsche Grammophon, 2022)
From AfarVíkingur ÓlafssonDeutsche Grammophon, 2022 From Afar, which chronicles the musical life story of Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, features 22 compositions played twice across two…
Orchestral Music
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal For his second season at the OSM, conductor Rafael Payare will kick-start an ambitious multi-year journey into the heart of Mahler’s…
Debussy. Rameau (DG)
The place to go these days to hear French piano music is Iceland. The best-selling, innovative Bach interpreter Víkingur Ólafsson has taken a pair of…
