Top-selling pianist Vikingur Ólafsson will premiere John Adams’s new piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on January 16, with repeats on two successive nights.
The concerto is titled After the Fall, and look what comes next.
Performances are scheduled between January and May in Zurich, Hamburg and Vienna, with more to follow in London, Gothenburg and Los Angeles. Not a bad run for unheard new music.
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