MUSIC

Vikingur Ólafsson

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022
7:30 PM

Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$60-$80
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I agonized about whether to List this. Not that I’m not excited about this show — the album on which it is based is one of my current faves — but it hews perilously closer to Standard Rep than what this List usually covers. Are we going to recognize the Early Classical period — some of the freshest, most purely enjoyable music around — as instead constituting Early Music, and hence Listable? For all that the major mainstream orchestras and soloists play it, it might as well be (even when the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra took to touting itself a few years ago as “New York’s only orchestra devoted to the Classical Period”, it never strayed far from Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven). So here we go! As for pianist Vikingur Ólafsson, I for one am thrilled to have a chance to hear him live; he’s never made an album that’s less than fabulous.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sugarfish: adequate, well-priced sushi — and OPEN after the show!