Víkingur Ólafsson Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 485

Buy stream Mozart here: For his latest album, Ólafsson presents some of his favourite Mozart keyboard works in the company of pieces by a selection of the composers leading contemporaries. Juxtaposing works by Mozart, Haydn and Bach with rarelyrecorded 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: a resourceful, hardworking adult who had come to know adversity. All is artfully brought together by Ólafssons signature thoughtprovoking programming. Ólafsson comments: I find this decade of Mozarts life and art endlessly fascinating. Mozart was not just a composer, and I feel that when he was writing for himself as a virtuoso pianist he indulged more than ever in the sublime playfulness that lay at the core of his originality and inventiveness. This is the period when Mozart was not just perfecting the Class