Víkingur Ólafsson, John Adams & London Symphony Orchestra

When a composer lends wings to his own music, a special sparkle emerges: in this concert John Adams himself stands at the podium of the London Symphony Orchestra and meets Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. America meets Iceland, pulsing rhythm meets clear Nordic contour. Adams's colourful, immediately accessible sonic world, which playfully moves between minimal music, jazz, gospel and classical modernism, takes on a direct, personal signature.