Piano Recital: Víkingur Ólafsson & Yuja Wang by Berio, Schubert, Nancarrow, Adams, Pärt, Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Cage, vie. 25 oct 2024, De (2024/2024), Tonhalle Zürich, Zúrich, Suiza

If someone had said before the 2024/25 season plans were published that Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson would present a four-hand piano programme, the answer would have been clear: Dream on! But now this dream is actually becoming reality. And when you look at their programme, you can assume that they are also fulfilling a few dreams of their own. Because it contains everything that two pianists who are as dexterous as they are clever like: refined, highly virtuosic, experimental, breathtaking, jazzy, iconic, surprising. And yes, even the unplayable – such as Study No. 1, which Conlin Nancarrow wrote for a mechanical piano regardless of anatomical possibilities.