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Possessing a rare combination of passionate musicality, explosive virtuosity and intellectual curiosity, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has been heralded as Icelands Glenn Gould by the New York Times. In 2016 Víkingur signed as an exclusive recording artist to Deutsche Grammophon, with his debut album of Philip Glasss Etudes in January 2017 a global critical and public success: breathtakingly brilliant pianist (Gramophone). He follows it up with Johann Sebastian Bach, a collection of both well-known and rarely performed pieces by the famous Baroque composer, including reworks by Bach of pieces from Vivaldi and Busoni as well as Ólafssons own transcriptions of Bach chorales. Now available on double 180g vinyl.