{"id":18627,"date":"2024-03-03T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18627"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:47:39","slug":"daily_3301_-_vikingur_olafsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/03\/03\/daily_3301_-_vikingur_olafsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3301 &#8211; V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3301_Olafsson.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nV\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson played Bach&#8217;s Goldberg Variations. My favourite, by far, of the piano recital series. Wonderful experience.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the grumpy Russians, \u00d3lafsson was personable and fun. Smiled, talked to the audience. Patted the piano to thank it when he was applauded at the end.<\/p>\n<p>These things always end with extra numbers. They can barely even be called extras, these days &#8211; they almost always happen. But it was \u00d3lafsson&#8217;s very definite opinion that the Goldberg variations were a whole, with a built-in encore in the shape of the aria being repeated at the end, and &#8220;you can&#8217;t just play a Nocturne by Chopin after it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson played Bach&#8217;s Goldberg Variations. My favourite, by far, of the piano recital series. Wonderful experience. Unlike the grumpy Russians, \u00d3lafsson was personable and fun. Smiled, talked to the audience. Patted the piano to thank it when he was applauded at the end. These things always end with extra numbers. They can barely even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-music","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18629,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions\/18629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}