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Víkingur Ólafsson

Mozart & Contemporaries (CD)

Víkingur Ólafsson’s thought-provoking programme for Mozart & Contemporaries features some of his favourite Mozart keyboard works juxtaposed with pieces by a selection of the composer’s leading contemporaries: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788); Joseph Haydn (1732–1809); Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785); and Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801).

“Far from the glowing image of the angelic prodigy, the music on this album is mostly by the Mozart of the 1780s, a grown man and a mature composer – who in the preceding years had come to know adversity,” explained Víkingur Ólafsson. “This is the period when Mozart was not just perfecting the Classical tradition but subtly subverting it, his graceful touch as featherlight as always but the shadows darker, the nuances and ambiguities more profound.”

1. Galuppi: Andante spiritoso from Piano Sonata No. 9 in F minor
2. Mozart: Rondo in F major, K 494
3. C.P.E. Bach: Rondo II in D minor, H 290
4. Cimarosa: Sonata No. 42 in D minor (Arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson)
5. Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K 397 (Fragment)
6. Mozart: Rondo in D major, K 485
7. Cimarosa: Sonata No. 55 in A minor (Arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson)
8. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: I. Allegro moderato
9. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: II. Menuet
10. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: III. Finale - Presto
11. Mozart: Kleine Gigue in G, K 574
12. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 “Sonata facile”: I. Allegro
13. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 “Sonata facile”: II. Andante
14. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 “Sonata facile”: III. Rondo. Allegretto
15. Mozart: Adagio in E flat, arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson from String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K 516 
16. Galuppi:  Larghetto from Piano Sonata No. 34 in C minor
17. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: I. Molto allegro
18. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: II. Adagio
19. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: III. Allegro assai
20. Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K 540
21. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K 618 (Transcr. for solo piano by Franz Liszt)