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Víkingur Ólafsson Returns John Adams & Bruckner

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Superstar pianist Víkingur Ólafsson returns for the Australian premiere of John Adams’s After the Fall, written especially for Ólafsson. Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony offers a dramatic and striking contract, conducted by Lawrence Renes

The applause for Víkingur Ólafsson’s 2024 Sydney Symphony debut was still echoing around the Concert Hall when we started work to bring him back.

Now he returns with a new work written for him by John Adams, one of the most influential figures in contemporary classical music. Hailed as ‘nothing short of phenomenal’ (Adventures in Music), his piano concerto After the Fall receives its Australian premiere.

Bruckner’s Sixth is vast and unhurried, like a surging tide, each phrase opening into the next until the orchestra seems to glow from within. Conductor Lawrence Renes shapes Bruckner’s monumental vision with intense clarity.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

John ADAMS After the Fall AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
BRUCKNER Symphony No.6

Artists

Conductor
Lawrence Renes
Piano
Víkingur Ólafsson

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Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

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Concert Hall

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