35 tracks and just one name: Johann Sebastian Bach. Icelandic pianist Víkingur Olafsson continues his successful recording career with a collection of well and lesser known pieces by the famous baroque composer. The selection includes reworks by Bach himself of composers such as Vivaldi and Busoni and Transcriptions / Reworks of Chorals by Víkingur Ólafsson himself. Víkingur Olafsson’s interpretation of the baroque repertoire are crystal clear, modern and hauntingly beautiful. In his very own style Víkingur perfectly captures Bach as a master of balance whose music is the ideal combination of emotion and intellect, singing melody and sculpted counterpoint.

In 1999 Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) have been released, followed by the Clavierübung part II and III and the Inventions (or Symphonies). During the Bach-Year his interpretation of the Well Tempered Clavier part I has been published. They all got enthusiastic reviews in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Piano News and in Le Monde de la Musique. The Goldberg Variations got a Diapason d'or, first place in the month of November 1999. Many critics attest Koroliovs Bach records not only having an absolutely outstanding position among all new releases of the Bach-Year but belonging to the most important Bach-recordings of record- and CD-history ever. (from
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