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Los Angeles, CA (Opening, Etudes Nos.15 & 3)

February 24, 2027

https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/4446/2027-02-24/vikingur-olafsson

Víkingur Ólafsson
Colburn Celebrity Recital
Wed / Feb 24, 2027 – 8:00PM

The megastar from Iceland returns with reflective works by Debussy, Rameau, and Philip Glass.

Program
Philip GLASS
Opening from Glassworks
DEBUSSY
Ondine from Préludes, Book II
Philip GLASS
Etude No. 15
RAMEAU
Selections from Suite No. 3 in D
DEBUSSY
Serenade for the Doll from Children’s Corner
RAMEAU
Selections from Suite No. 2 in E minor
DEBUSSY
Jardins sous la pluie from Estampe
Philip GLASS
Etude No. 3
DEBUSSY
The Snow is Dancing from Children’s Corner
RAMEAU
Selections from Suite No. 5 in A minor

About this Performance
The Icelandic megastar revisits selections from his 2020 recording of keyboard jewels, including Debussy’s impression of “Gardens in the Rain,” dancing snow, and a porcelain doll come to life. Treating each piece “like a sculpture, worth studying from all angles in search of new interpretations and surprises” (The New York Times), Víkingur Ólafsson also weaves Philip Glass etudes with three suites originally written for the harpsichord by Rameau—the composer Ólafsson calls “the bad boy of the French baroque.”

Listening to Ólafsson is “like riding a magic carpet,” writes The Times of London. “These pictures and sensations, transmuted into music, radiate with lightness, elegance, and a delight in every variety of life.”

This series is generously supported by the Colburn Foundation.This concert is supported by the Colburn Foundation.

Details

  • Date: February 24, 2027

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