The new album from Víkingur Ólafsson features music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert in a recital the Icelandic pianist presented at Symphony Center last June, named one of “Top Ten Performances of 2025” by Chicago Classical Review. At the heart of Opus 109 is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, which Víkingur places in a musically thrilling temporal dialogue, tracing the lineages that converge on this masterpiece of the composer’s late period. As in his recital program, the album explores works in the keys of E major and E minor including Beethoven’s Sonata No. 27, Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 6, Bach’s Partitia No. 6, and selections from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, and French Suite No. 6.