Cover image for Mozart & contemporaries [CD]
Title:
Mozart & contemporaries [CD]
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Berlin : Deutsche Grammophon, [2021]

℗2021
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (84 min., 1 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : portraits ; 12 x 12 cm)
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
Title from disc label.

Program notes by Víkingur Ólafsson in English (22 pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.
Performers:
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano.
Contents:
Piano sonata no. 9 in F minor. Andante spiritoso / Galuppi (2:05) -- Rondo in F major, K 494 / Mozart (6:05) -- Rondo II in D minor H 290 / C.P.E. Bach (3:26) -- Sonata no. 42 in D minor / Cimarosa ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson (2:24) -- Fantasia in D minor K 397 (fragment) (5:47) ; Rondo in D major K 485 (3:46) / Mozart -- Sonata no. 55 in A minor / Cimarosa ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson (2:44) -- Piano sonata no. 47 in B minor / Haydn (7:54) -- Kleine Gigue : in G major, K 574 (1:40) ; Piano sonata no. 16 in C major : "Sonata facile" : K 545 (8:43) / Mozart -- String quartet no. 3 G minor K 516. Adagio in E flat major / Mozart ; arr. Víkingur Ólafsson (8:04) -- Piano sonata no. 34 in C minor. Larghetto / Galuppi (3:07) -- Piano sonata no. 14 in C minor K 457 (16:38) ; Adagio in B minor K 540 (7:34) / Mozart -- Ave verum corpus : K 618 / Mozart ; transcr. Franz Liszt (4:02).
Language:
No linguistic content

English
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