Want French piano music? Go to Iceland
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
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 French composers two centuries apart and effectively melded their music into one by the simple method of interleaving short pieces across a whole album.
The outcome is astonishing in respect of both Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918), revealing unsuspected aspects in both masters…
Read on here.
And here.
Víkingur is yet another example of the “Why not?” mentality that drives artistic creativity in Iceland.
His Bach album is all bits and pieces too.