Standout stars: Joe Strummer, AJ Tracey, Vikingur Olafsson and more
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Few pianists have had such immediate impact as the brilliant young Icelander Vikingur Olafsson, and this delightful album, alternating between French musical revolutionaries two centuries apart, who each took keyboard playing in new directions. Olafsson says both had relentless intellectual independence, noting Rameau, a âcompletely obscure autodidact from the provincesâ, wrote influential treatises on tonal harmony. The excellent liner notes present many more shared attributes, including imaginative titles and a âsynaesthetic streakâ. The works presented here â mostly from the 1724