Video of the day: Víkingur Ólafsson's captivating Bach

Gramophone
Thursday, October 24, 2019

A mesmerising new film of our newly-crowned Artist of the Year Víkingur Ólafsson, playing the Andante from Bach's Organ Sonata No 4

A last week's Gramophone Classical Music Awards we named Víkingur Ólafsson as our Artist of Year, principally for his recording of JS Bach's keyboard works for Deutsche Grammophon. 

And DG have just released a beautiful new film of Ólafsson playing the Andante from Bach's Organ Sonata No 4 (transcribed by Stradal), which you can enjoy below:

You can watch the live performance that Víkingur Ólafsson gave at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards in the complete broadcast on our Awards homepage (starting at 37 minutes).

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