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Special offer. Mozart & Contemporaries

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Mozart & Contemporaries

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There is much to admire here thanks to Ólafsson’s superb pianism, most notably in Haydn’s Sonata No. 47, Mozart’s little C major Sonata and his Adagio in B minor; his Kleine Gigue goes like...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

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There is much to admire here thanks to Ólafsson’s superb pianism, most notably in Haydn’s Sonata No. 47, Mozart’s little C major Sonata and his Adagio in B minor; his Kleine Gigue goes like...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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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.”

Contents and tracklist

Galuppi: Piano Sonata in F minor: Andante spiritoso
Work length2:06
Mozart: Rondo in F major K494
Work length6:05
Bach, C P E: Rondo in D minor, Wq. 61 / 4 (H290)
Work length3:26
Cimarosa: Keyboard Sonata No. 42 in D minor
Work length2:24
Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K397
Work length5:47
Mozart: Rondo in D major, K485
Work length3:46
Cimarosa: Keyboard Sonata No. 55 in A minor
Work length2:44
Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor, Hob.XVI:32
Work length7:54
I. Allegro moderato
Track length3:04
II. Menuet
Track length2:41
III. Finale. Presto
Track length2:09
Mozart: Gigue in G Major, K574
Work length1:40
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K545 'Facile'
Work length8:43
I. Allegro
Track length3:00
II. Andante
Track length4:00
III. Rondo. Allegretto
Track length1:43
Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K516: IV. Adagio
Work length8:04
Galuppi: Sonata in C minor, Illy 34
Work length3:07
I. Larghetto
Track length3:07
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K457
Work length16:38
I. Molto allegro
Track length3:55
II. Adagio
Track length8:12
III. Allegro assai
Track length4:31
Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K540
Work length7:34
Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
Work length4:02

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    Critics' Choice 2021
  • Presto Recording of the Week
    3rd September 2021
  • Gramophone Magazine
    October 2021
    Editor's Choice
  • Presto Recordings of the Year
    Finalist 2021
  • International Classical Music Awards
    2022
    Nominated - Solo Instrument
  • Gramophone Awards
    2022
    Shortlisted - Piano

November 2021

There is much to admire here thanks to Ólafsson’s superb pianism, most notably in Haydn’s Sonata No. 47, Mozart’s little C major Sonata and his Adagio in B minor; his Kleine Gigue goes like the wind.
5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

October 2021

Just when you feel you’ve got the measure of Víkingur Ólafsson he veers off in an unexpected direction...this could have been a bitty affair, yet the result is anything but.

3rd September 2021

Something that never ceases to amaze me about the Icelandic pianist is the variety of touch and sheer range of colours that he brings to his playing..Ólafsson is happily determined to forge his own path even in the most familiar of repertoire, doing things his own way yet never making his choices feel like mere gimmicks…another exceptional album from this phenomenally accomplished performer.
James Longstaffe

28th August 2021

He asks how to “deal” with Mozart: easy on first glance, but elusive and difficult once you dig deeper…His clear, agile playing, inner parts brought out, ornaments always fresh, never exaggerated, suggests he has found peace with the composer. This is just the start.

8th September 2021

Whatever he plays, Olafsson treats the music with equal distinction: articulation wonderfully fleet and clean; the phrasing flexible, always alive; the range of touch in his fingers stretching into infinity. This is a lovely album.
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