Mozart & contemporaries

Author

Víkingur Ólafsson

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC CLASSICAL (CEN)

Performers

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano.

Publication Information

Berlin : Deutsche Grammophon, [2021]

Physical Description

1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Juxtaposing works by Mozart, Haydn and C.P.E. Bach with rarely-recorded Galuppi and Cimarosa, Mozart & Contemporaries dispels the image of Mozart as the angelic and prodigious idiot savant, instead presenting a mature composer through music primarily dating from the 1780s. All is artfully brought together by Olafsson's signature thought-provoking programming.

Notes

Compact disc.

Contents

• Andante spiritoso from Piano sonata no. 9 in F minor / Galuppi
• Rondo in F major, K 494 / Mozart
• Rondo II in D minor H 290 / C.P.E. Bach
• Sonata no. 42 in D minor / Cimarosa ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson
• Fantasia in D minor K 397 (fragment) ; Rondo in D major K 485 / Mozart
• Sonata no. 55 in A minor / Cimarosa ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson
• Piano sonata no. 47 in B minor / Haydn
• Piano sonata no. 16 in C major, "Sonata facile" K 545 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Adagio in E flat major from String quartet no. 3 G minor K 516 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson
• Larghetto from Piano sonata no. 34 in C minor / Galuppi
• Piano sonata no. 14 in C minor K 457 ; Adagio in B minor K 540 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ave verum corpus K 618 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; transcr. Franz Liszt.