Great Performers

Artist

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Program

Mozart and his Contemporaries

Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)

Andante spiritoso from the Sonata No. 9 in F minor

Larghetto defrom the Sonata No. 34 in C minor

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Rondó in D minor, Wq 61/4 (1785)

Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)

Sonata No. 42 in D minor (Arr. V. Ólafsson)

Sonata No. 55 in A minor (Arr. V. Ólafsson)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob XVI:32 (ca. 1774-1746)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Rondó in F major, K 533/494 (1786)

Fantasy No. 3 in D minor, K 397 (¿1782?)

Rondó in D major, K 485 (1786)

Kleine Gigue, in G major, K 574 (1789)

Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major «Sonata facile», K 545 (1788)

Adagio en E flat major, from the String Quartet No. 4 en G minor, K 516 (1787. Arr. V. Ólafsson)

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457 (1784)

Adagio in B minor, K 540 (1788)

Ave verum corpus, K 618 (1791. Transcr. F. Liszt)

Connections

The Icelander Víkingur Ólafsson has been known in the last five years for a pianistic art in which he combines high virtuosity with intimacy. His programs are always unusual, but not so much because of the selected music, which is usually that of the great classical masters, but because of the way he establishes connections between the different parts of his recitals, in which he tends to avoid major forms, preferring short works or movements, which he links with an extraordinary musical and spiritual coherence, through his own arrangements or transcriptions when necessary. For his debut in Granada, he proposes a visit to the world of Classicism, in which, together with Mozart and Haydn, he summons three key figures of his time, although much less well-known on the piano: Emanuel Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.

Concert with no interval