Víkingur Ólafsson: Debussy, Glass & Rameau

Rameau, Debussy and Philip Glass meet in the pianist’s expert hands, uncovering unexpected connections across three centuries of keyboard music. Víkingur Ólafsson is a musical storyteller with a gift for making distant composers sound like contemporaries. Here, three radically individual voices meet through their fascination with colour, pattern and the possibilities of the keyboard. Rameau’s dances and character pieces teem with vivid imagery, from tumbling whirlwinds and singing birds to the pounding repetitions of ‘Les cyclopes’. Almost two centuries later, Debussy creates his own pictures in sound: pattering raindrops, falling snow and the mysterious water spirit Ondine.