Vikingur Olafsson - Mozart & Contemporaries

Double LP

Vkingur Olafsson's exciting project looks at the dark side of Mozart and his Contemporaries in this tribute with a twist. Music is from W. A. Mozart, Baldassare Galuppi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Domenico Cimarosa, Franz Joseph Haydn and three new arrangements by Vkingur.

"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 Vkingur 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."

LP1 - Side A:

Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)

1. Galuppi: Andante spiritoso from Piano Sonata No. 9 in F minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

2. Mozart: Rondo in F major, K 494

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

3. C.P.E. Bach: Rondo II in D minor, H 290

Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)

4. Cimarosa: Sonata No. 42 in D minor (Arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K 397 (Fragment)

6. Mozart: Rondo in D major, K 485

LP1 - Side B:

Domenico Cimarosa

1. Cimarosa: Sonata No. 55 in A minor (Arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 "Sonata facile": I. Allegro

3. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 "Sonata facile": II. Andante

4. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K 545 "Sonata facile": III. Rondo. Allegretto

5. Mozart: Adagio in E flat, arr. by Víkingur Ólafsson from String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K 516

LP2 - Side A:

Baldassare Galuppi

1. Galuppi: Larghetto from Piano Sonata No. 34 in C minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: I. Molto allegro

3. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: II. Adagio

4. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457: III. Allegro assai

LP2 - Side B:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1. Mozart: Kleine Gigue in G, K 574

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

2. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: I. Allegro moderato

3. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: II. Menuet

4. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 47 in B minor: III. Finale - Presto

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K 540

6. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K 618 (Transcr. for solo piano by Franz Liszt)

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