Víkingur Olafsson: Mozart & Contemporaries
Víkingur Olafsson
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Release Date: 03/09/2021
Víkingur Olafsson's exciting project looking at the dark side of Mozart and his Contemporaries in this tribute with a twist. Music from W. A. Mozart, Baldassare Galuppi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Domenico Cimarosa, Franz Joseph Haydn and 3 new arrangements by Víkingur. '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 Olafsson. '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: I. Andante Spiritoso
2: Rondo in F Major, K494
3: Rondo in D Minor, Wq61, No. 4, H290
4: Keyboard Sonata No. 42 in D Minor
5: Fantasia in D Minor, K397
6: Rondo in D Major, K485
7: Keyboard Sonata No. 55 in a Minor
8: I. Allegro Moderato
9: II. Menuet
10: III. Finale. Presto
11: Gigue in G Major, K574
12: I. Allegro
13: II. Andante
14: III. Rondo: Allegretto
15: IV. Adagio
16: I. Larghetto
17: I. Molto Allegro
18: II. Adagio
19: III. Allegro Assai
20: Adagio in B Minor, K540
21: Ave Verum Corpus, K618