The Limelight Artists of the Year for 2021
After a hiatus in 2020, we once again asked our reviewers and readers to vote for the Australian and International Artists of the Year. We are thrilled to announce our 2021 winners.
After a hiatus in 2020, we once again asked our reviewers and readers to vote for the Australian and International Artists of the Year. We are thrilled to announce our 2021 winners.
From Igor Levit to Stephen Hough the piano takes centre stage this month, but there are vocal pleasures too with Respighi songs and Christian Gerhaher’s complete Schumann.
Ólafsson sprinkles star-studded music throughout a heavenly program.
With Ólafsson and Mozart, pianists and their programs are rarely as engrossing.
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Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s intriguing coupling of Debussy and Rameau sweeps the board.
The winner of our 2020 Recording of the Year discusses Rameau, Debussy and Australia.
Musical twins: Ólafsson spectacularly reunites Rameau and Debussy.
The Icelandic pianist, who Limelight's critics have voted our International Artist of the Year 2019, tells us about his forays into the music of Philip Glass and Johann Sebastian Bach.
The critics have spoken: pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is Limelight's International Artist of the Year.
Ólafsson’s Icelandic cool is a perfect match for Bach and his transcriptions.
Glass on the piano to the max rather than to the Minimalist.