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Transcribe, Transform with Vikingur Olafsson

Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson: Expand and Contract

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Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson

BBC Radio 3 - Transcribe, Transform with Víkingur Ólafsson, Expand and Contract

Pianist Vikingur Olafsson explores the art of musical transcription.

Pianist Vikingur 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 this second episode, Víkingur finds huge pieces reduced to small forces and vice versa as he explores the maximal and the minimal in arrangements. A grand baroque masterpiece is transformed into something very different by a jazz quartet, while a piano score is given the rock ’n roll treatment. There’ll also be symphonic grandeur by Gustav Mahler transcribed for the organ, plus piano music by Schubert that Víkingur actually prefers in the orchestral transcription made by the violinist Joseph Joachim.

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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