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BBC Proms

2021

Víkingur Ólafsson and the Philharmonia

Duration: 2 hours, 6 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson joins the Philharmonia for his hotly anticipated Proms debut. Here his skills are on display in JS Bach’s intricate Keyboard Concerto in F minor along with Mozart’s stormy Piano Concerto in C Minor.

Josie d’Arby presents Víkingur's performance from the Royal Albert Hall, which is bookended by two Russian masterpieces – Prokofiev’s bijou First Symphony and Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony. Show less

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