Víkingur Ólafsson: Opus 109 album review – pianist’s concept album opens up transcendent vistas | Classical music

Disinclined to follow the herd and record Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas as a job lot, Víkingur Ólafsson has chosen to circle one of them, No 30 in E major, Op 109, locating it in a musical timeline that reflects both the composer’s…