Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: Les Boréades: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson)

Ólafsson draws a parallel between the three verses of the piece and the three characters in the video - do you think they match?

Exquisitely beautiful, the music and the transcription. Víkingur plays it with such sensitivity and gentleness. I requested it on BBC Radio 3 recently. Víkingur is the best concert pianist of the last twenty years for me. Bravissimo! 🎉❤

Hauntingly sad and beautiful

I’ve read some derogatory comments with regard to the clips and i do understand the purists’ concerns. Anyhow, i just listened to this piece together with my 6-year-old daughter while taking her to school. Perhaps we are educating an excessively visual generation but i also feel that little gems like this offer to a wide array of distant listeners (distant in spatial terms but also in terms of life circumstances) the opportunity to experience contact with the arts. Thank you for that and keep up the intuitive drive.

What a wonder.

My dad passed away two days ago while I was in flight to see him. He has gone peacefully with mom and brother aside. I now know he is a good spirit flying anywhere anytime he wants to go without pain. Wish he can reunion his mother, who passed in his early childhood in heaven back in time.

Dad, you are and will be best forever. Thanks so much for every thing you have done to me.

Love you, my my my dad.

The music is mesmerizing and so beautiful that I am playing it over and over.... I think that Rameau (famous for his studies of harmony) needs to be explored more, and the performance, arrangement by Vikingur Olafsson is gorgeous! That said, I find the video not only distracting but inappropriate --- something showing the beauties of a forest or running stream or the purity of a sunrise would have spoken so much better than these 3 obsessive collectors, although the book collector has my heart as a fellow bibliophile.

My nephew, Jing Hong, is 7 years old. He likes the piece, he says he feels happy and excited.😊

Listening to music is like studying the universe.
Just keep looking, and you'll find something amazing.

Thankyou for helping me discover this.

A diolch am y gerddoriaeth.

Волшебно!

Do you know that Rameau composed "brother John" ? Such a popular music !

On hearing this, I just couldn't help keeping playing it over and over again. Am I the only one to feel ultimate peace?

Gorgeous

Une réussite ! , un rare et pur plaisir musical

Thin Oborin face !!!!!

Like a 1920s Oborin

Heard it galore during my holiday in Crete in 2020.
Bliss in front of the Lybian sea.

Vikingur! Is there a way to get this piano transcription?? I would love to play it as well!!

Der bist der gefühlvollste Pianist den ich kenne.

Without words - Thank you Vikingur 😢

편안해진다😌

Two little-known circumstances relating to this composition that is part of a larger lyrical tragedy, "Les Boréades":
1) was composed by Rameau at the ripe old age of 80,
2) after its first public performance in 1770, the complete work was performed publicly for the second time only in 1982.

Mjög fallegt!

Video clips are not for classical music, totally distractive.

Maravilloso

Garbage 🗑

This interpretation of Rameau is absolutely wonderful.
Rameau is more important than Mozart.

I love everything about this video.

Et Rameau traverse les siècles et les genres musicaux. Merci M Olafsson

This is beautiful but who are the pin ball technicians

As I write this my godfather is passing away and this piece is bringing me much solace and healing. Thank you 🙏🏼

Una hermosura

Outstanding. Such a beautiful rendition.

Master of the universe....

I just love this wonderful piece of music. I can listen to Vikingur playing the piano for hours. It makes me happy, gives me peace and strength. ❤❤

J’adore cette divine transcription qui n’est autre qu’un hommage à Frans Brüggen, me semble t-il.
Oui, “Ars longa, vita brevis”
Bravo Ólafsson !

This pianist opts for very personal choices. Some may criticize them. For me, each listening is a journey, a poetry of life.

Perfect music video. Love the overhead shot of the piano at the end.

Beautiful, I just heard this piece of music for the first time on KUSC in L.A. I’m so glad I did.

Vikingur has the special talent of making every arrangement he plays sound like it has been reduced to it’s essential notes. Hie rendition sounds uncomplicated and easy to play. However, as said that is his talent. I have purchased some of his piano transcripts. They are not easy to play. As yet I never achieve the elegance and control anywhere neat to my satisfaction.

😇

Ambos Sao genius...

Gorgeous …❤

Ну, да - похоже на мемуары, но составленные не для публикации, а для естественного отчёта самому себе, имеющего, в данном описании, место, в случае, если результаты, на данный подотчётный момент, и способы их достижения в большей части являются положительными

Absolutely wonderful playing and beautiful piece.

I resent the fact that Deutsche Grammophon didn't contact me to have my mess included in this video.

Wonderful! Rameau would be pleased.

For me this aria by Rameau, which I heard by chance on the radio, in my car, years ago, performed with the orchestra, is among the most beautiful and enchanting of all the Baroque. The degree of grace and lyricism impressively exceed all expectations of that historical period and reach up to our time, and, again, up to our heart... 😑Also beautiful on the piano.

Un rythme fort séduisant qui nous emporte avec bonheur , nous suit et poursuit encore même dans le silence .Bravo !

Oh my god... I'm literally crying now.. So touching...