BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Transcribe, Transform with Vikingur Ólafsson

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Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson: Limits and Possibilities

Limits and Possibilities

Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson

BBC Radio 3 - Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson, Limits and Possibilities

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the art of musical transcription.

Pianist Víkingur Olafsson explores the art of musical transcription and how pieces by composers across the centuries have been reimagined in remarkably creative ways.

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson approaches music without preconceptions; as he puts it, “Every note we play anywhere, anytime, is a reinterpretation, a transcription.”

In the third and final episode of the series, Víkingur explores how composers from George Crumb, Heinrich Biber and Olivier Messiaen were inspired by sounds of the natural world, from tiny birds to huge whales. We’ll also hear music by Steve Reich reimagined for the harpsichord, Mascagni’s famous Intermezzo in the hands of a steel pan orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy given a wild reinterpretation by US vocal supergroup Pentatonix. 

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Music: Classical

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the remarkably creative art of musical transcription.

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the art of musical transcription and how pieces by composers across the centuries have been reimagined in remarkably creative ways.

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