in these places in europe smashing the rank one step into a bold adventure the treasure map for martin globetrotters discovers some of us regular bragging sites on youtube and also into the . 2 ice and is a specialty. so what i sent us for me is that it has a solitary quality the i tried to play every concert like it was my kind of get hold. thank you or political along with if you, i'd really try to play those concepts like my life depended on the

beacon to our lives and was born in iceland, a large remote island in the north atlantic. his musical approach with its individual infection was born in this isolation. how has he managed to catch the year of the entire world of classical music? as he did on his world tour with johann sebastian bucks, goldberg variations, the fox is always the future and is so often been behind the most interesting musical revolutions and music history. you know, and you know, you couldn't imagine something like this. i can be in the school without the idea

of pass. the reading, the send will be paying $88.00 concerts on his world tour. the that's the gold, the variations. this monumental work, 88 times a thoroughly monumental tour. as well as the recordings for music labeled do it, you gramma, phone, the deacon. the son has found his own approach to box music in iceland to bid for the bus thrown, extolled one, usually reserved to music critic. when people are moving music, you know, radically forward momentum. they so often rely on the foundations. so this was also just to play on that. the box is kind of like shakespeare, and then we all have to, you know, if you're a riser, you have to face shakespeare a certain, find them if you're a musician,

the same applies to bar as good . we can do is just one moment on his iceland to comb seems far removed from by but he himself seems to feel very close to him. during our time, we can go in berlin. we retreated to a performance of a box file in sonata, in his own arrangement for piano. the how many musicians would even attempt such an uninhabited approach to such

a musical legacy good is especially the vinyl russian and then goes on with this and repeat address some of this kind of feeling for stability and meditation. i always thought this piece was incredible because of that some of the trends that brings you into, through the repetition of service, i'm going through that incorrectly beautiful lawyer which through the harmonies of the piece, and i always wanted to pay it on the piano. finally made that dream come true and i make my own arrangement for solar panel. good . not only does vision go on of sun give boxed music, new interpretations. p rewrites that it's

a treatment of box originals that speaks of confidence in his own inner freedom of freedom that may well come easier to someone, relatively unburdened with centuries of box tradition. good . i'm sorry. can you, jealous of, everybody was german from coming from the same country as fucking beautiful. you know, but i think that, well, going back to the vikings, you know, their, their mortgage years and they, they, they travel the world to, to, to, to bring the message, whatever the messages and i have that in common with them. and i think that when it comes to giving and taking that is the idea of interpretive art, you're taking a message from somebody else and you're making it to your own. so it becomes

a meeting between you and the creator of that message, whether that's possible or a defendant from sort sion pack or whoever. so it's not just bucks world or bay defense walden, i am a guest in, but i'm rather making them to some degree a part of my world as well. the, the v can just listen, feels enough at home in box music to tell stories from his own home country with it . he takes us to iceland coast and one of the many fish factories. this story is about the quiet daily lives of the people here. and about how boss changes their life, the likely repetition of that piece by the p minor, like the right tend to and if you know it just goes on and on and

a sense of feeling that kind of factory work when you have that kind of find them and, and that's why i don't want to bring back, you know, to iceland in that sense. and there was a beautiful story about fish tuck 3 when they actually had a grand piano in the country. because the owner of the fish, thanks for your loved music and he wanted the best for his workers. so people could play concepts there and play during the factory hours. i liked that so much and you know, in those factories, people are always listening to music and some of them are actually listening to box . so i thought this is a logical and i wanted to actually tell a little short story in that. so, you know, and it's a story about a man who changes life in a certain spot in the music where things really are transformed to interest. i get the

gigs of 39 year old pianist to confidence to trust his own intuition over tradition . it's uh may be part of that is because i don't come from a country of that kind of tradition of that. let's say the russian piano school or something like that where you, there's really a system and a way of tradition of doing it. there's no, i send the piano school and there's no tradition for that kind of piano playing nice and, but i'm also, i'm sort of a composer and i compose to myself quite lots. and i'd like to approach music from a composer's perspective, if i can. so i try to, i mentioned the creative process of the composer and to play it from that side. good

jake, mozart, or instance, his low, dodgy domino is much loved. but if he can go over the sun, has no qualms about approaching the piece. mozart composed it for soprano, an orchestra, v can go as now arranged for piano as he plays it, everything sounds free, spontaneous as if he were improvising the melody, the i tried to go deep enough for the music, so that cents. hi, a color created in the moment with the come closer of course, but that's, it's like any actor, you know, you can be stuck in the scripts, you can be when you're on stage. you can't. people can't be thinking about the script while you're on stage. they have to think about the message and the extra

bodies and becomes the employment of that message. and that should be the same with the pianist or whoever is playing the music from 200 years ago. you should become that message. it doesn't happen over night. you know, it's not like you take freedom or decides to do something free. freedom is not something you decide. it's something that grows and comes from intense living in the music and with the music. that was a little bit of lost in the 20th century. and i, i left, i love that fact it's actually and when i'm talking to young people today, i always encourage them to write, to feed what it seems like to have an as t piece of music paper in front of you and then to finish it. and then you realize that once you've done writing a little piece of music and you have to decide how that piece should sound, whether it's this temple or that temple, how loud how soft, what is the activation? what does that, what does the, everything you feed, how limit thing about this,

and that when you have to commit to one way with classical music, it's kind of working against the nature of the music because the nature of classical music on the mazda piece is so that they can be redefined with every new generation and every former, if people go with even a deacon, good classical music isn't set in stone times change. people change and so does the music for him. and gary and composer been a bar talk, spoke songs are also cards and net flow of change when he plays music like this, like a folk song which will about to test the transcribed so beautifully. i think you go into something very special. you go into the collective experience of a lot of people,

a nation or society. there's folk songs like this. they cannot be composed. they can only be created and formed together by generation after generation, after generation of grandmother singing to their children. and with this kind of peace, it's so special that this monkey, the fish is always stopping and starting and stopping. and it's so clearly like language like sentences, you know, speaking and telling a story, where do we go? we go into, we go to hungry, but we go to hungry, created in our minds. you know, this is one of the most beautiful folk songs i know. and it's a perfect from bach talk because it's just taking this unusual melody and put these glorious to beautiful harmonies to it. but you've got to something like something

very special. you've got to grandmother's singing to the children who then sing to their grandchildren get to a chain of experience. 2 the i'll tell you because i've just painted sound good and fox song, i play a nice sunday funk song, which is the most beautiful song they folks. and i know it's about, that's like so many i sunday folksongs. so it's about the old farmer who is sewing seats into the ground and contemplating that when the seats will have grown. he

will be under that today ground. he will no longer be a life. it's called where life and death may dwell good . ready there was a musicologist to travel with the country then. so shortly after the 2nd world war and the record at these farmers who had learned the songs from their mothers and fathers with learned them from their mothers and fathers, as all the icons remember 2000 song. so something like that. and this one is particularly beautiful. many of them are about finger and the best, and darkness and toasts and all the difficult things because life on this island was so impossible. the

music is just from another time, as if coming from far away from afar was also the title of beacon goes to know to miss out on the coming through on the scene or is how he feels. boy, in 39 years ago, he grew up in iceland and there in the piano, eventually graduating from the julliard school in new york. mm hm . a everybody deep inside seems like they are from a far because we have our own existence in own world in our own mind. but i send is a special case and this helps them. it's a little bit about my home country about my childhood growing there,

which is different from growing up in berlin or london or most go in new york or somewhere else. you know, it's an especially and i sent in the 1990s. i'm born in 1984, so i remember the time before the internet and before you tube and before everything. so it was a very private place and i wanted to try to capture some of my memories on this album. this album is mine a photo album. it's almost done to for my childhood. and it's music that often has to certain kinds of hearing it start problem. it's on the soft side and it's certainly my slowest and most it's one crew of them. it's my album of tonight, not 10 of them, but my knock turns are bike proof tact. this piece is cold harmonica. so it's like moon talk. you know, and you know, when you blow into moon talk, you know, you know. ready ready that sadie

i think she, she does, but i think gives these pieces. there's extra musical ideas. ready ready the to i love everything i play on the piano and the piano for me is the greatest instrument when it's played in a certain way, which creates kind of feeling for search dimensionality space in the sound. so

when you play the piano, i think ideally you should have many different layering of, of color and texture. and that should be like a 16 century landscape painting where you really have the distance and then you have something closer to the foreground. then you have the real foreground that you really feel painting opens up. the sound of the piano should do the same. it should open up and become kind of its own space to invite people to go into it. rather than being in your face presentation. the v can go and have sensors, he proceeds piano playing in terms of space is a 3 dimensional expansion. how has iceland influence to this perception, or more specifically the atlantic landscape?

i do think in terms of distance and sound. and the nice thing is that interesting was distance because we don't have almost the entries so, so you just go up on one of those hills, you know, in the south west of the country, you know, go up to 300 meters and then just look around and you see like in men's amount of land and you can see souls far and you actually get that feeling. so perhaps that has become part of me. i don't know the as in the name beacon to all of sudden is reminiscent of the north of iceland land if the vikings almost domestically charged. but the artist himself has an ambivalent relationship with his 1st name. i used to hate my name because i hated the idea that it wasn't the 5 king because i thought the vikings were not

good people. and i thought, you know, they're known for stealing and talking and killing and maybe raping and doing all the bad things. and i didn't like the idea of sailing around north atlantic ocean and, and doing whatever the hell he wanted to do. but of course the vikings were much bigger culture than that. and they were also vainly through people. but when i was growing up, there was a few vikings in iceland, it was of a rare name that isn't a hack rest of name. and some people think it's even a fake name. it's my stage name, but that's not the case. but the name actually has a beautiful story. it comes from my grandfather beacon good, who was born prematurely out in a snow storm and his mother sat there for the child survives i'll name him by king leaking. good because he's because he's strong and you know, he was one of the 1st likings actually in iceland to have that name. it hasn't been used for 5 or 600 years in the country before 1924 when he was born. and now it's

becoming a function name. unfortunately that's but it's uh, yeah, it's as large as it, as it gets. but i tried to remind myself that the vikings were literary and musical and they knew how to make great cheese and some drink good wine. so there we are, the clips and hasn't only been shaped by iceland culture. his family has been just as important, and the foundations were late early in his childhood home. i think the past 2 years, it looks like friday of a my mother was a she was a piano student when she was pregnant with me. and she was actually here in berlin doing her solos ex, um, and university playing a portion of the day to find and shop having all these things with me. 6 months. i think the pregnant was inside her. the keys were here. so absolutely makes sense to

the keys. so i like the idea of that. does it have any interest? i have no idea, but there was music in my home. and i think one of the most important moments in my musical life happens before i was born. it was effective, my parents spent all of their money and even took a loan to buy steinway friend piano. before they bought apartment. it's a beautiful thing and it's a crazy economic decision from them. but so we had an amazing new steinway model, be in my living room in this tiny basement that we lived in the 1st 7 years of my life, where i shared the room with my 2 sisters. and the piano was the apartment, the from basement of harden into a debut with the berlin philharmonic. it's a career trajectory that sounds dream like the path from iceland to the music world's grand stages did have its hurdles. we can go all of senra members to start

being difficult the my process i saw to us, i long, you know, and i, once the but i took a different pass on money. i didn't do the piano competitions. and i, because i really don't fundamentally, i don't believe and creatively. and i come come from iceland. so with my talent, i couldn't just didn't call anyone for introductions to anyone else because there was no, i sent a contractor on the international scene. there was no, i sent excel noise anywhere on the international scene. there was no one to introduce me to a management. so i felt it was a nice low pass the slowly but steadily things began to look up. as a pianist with

a holy professional attitude from the very start, he made every concert and every single note count the . but i tried to play every concert like it was my kind of get hold. thank you or political along with if you, i'd really try to play those concepts like my life depended on it. and in no way my life did depend on it. and then finally, finally, finally, someone listens to me, have left them there asking to see and immediately wanted to support me and decided to invite me to, to play with him while he was conducting. and we did the opening of hotspot concert house in iceland, which is where i record all my. those are coming from albums. i got my pleasure coming from country to when it was thought to to in the 7 years that have passed since became good left and is achieved a lot. he has an unmistakable musical style and an international career. his main

source of inspiration though, is still the country he comes home, i sent the last part and then new york, 1st of all because i used to live in both of those cities. so they're very close to me. so but what iceland does for me is that it has a solitary quality and i think it comes from the fact that it's a very sort of relatively pick island for very few people. so you have a lot of space, a lot of land and a lot of nature from a few inhabitants because you can only live on the circle of the island. and then you have the highlands. and glaciers in the volcano is where you certainly have houses. but it's very easy to, to just drive for 1520 minutes and be alone with nature and. and that can create a feeling for, for space and for, for life. i think that that, that's becomes

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