Víkingur Ólafsson, whose recordings have passed a billion streams, played his Bach, Beethoven and Schubert programme at Wigmore Hall three times in one week, from 10 to 12 September 2026.
Víkingur Ólafsson, whose recordings have passed a billion streams, played three recitals of Bach, Beethoven and Schubert at Wigmore Hall in Marylebone from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 September 2026.
The Icelandic pianist’s 2023 album of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which he then toured for a full season, won the 2025 Grammy for best classical instrumental solo. That tour brought him to Wigmore Hall in 2025. He holds the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal and the Nordic Council Music Prize.
He sets works beside each other so that one explains the next. Opus 109, released in November 2025, put Beethoven’s penultimate sonata at the centre and traced the Bach and Schubert lines that run into it.
The recitals followed that thread through E and E minor. Bach’s Prelude in E from Book I of The Well-tempered Clavier opened, followed by Beethoven’s Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90. Bach’s Partita No. 6 in E minor and Schubert’s early Sonata in E minor, D566, came next, and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109, closed the programme.
Thursday and Friday were evening recitals, and Saturday’s moved to lunchtime. His own arrangement of Bach’s Air was the encore.