Berliner Philharmoniker

Víkingur Ólafsson

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At Carnegie Hall, Víkingur Ólafsson talks about Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, which he performs with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko on the 2026 tour of the Americas — about the raw beauty of the work and the element of improvisation in every performance.

Published on the Berliner Philharmoniker tour blog.

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VideoTobias Möller, Adam Janisch

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