Víkingur's debut album "Philipp Glass: Piano Works", released by Deutsche Grammophon 7 years ago, was the cornerstone of his remarkable international career and marks a promising start to his collaboration with the label. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of the composer Philip Glass, Ólafsson presented a selection of his solo piano etudes. "Music is a place that is as real as any place you've ever been," Philip Glass once said. With his music, he succeeds in transcending space and time and making new dimensions tangible. Hardly anyone could have achieved this more intensively than Víkingur Ólafsson, the subtle, exceptional Icelandic artist.