Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 485 for Piano Solo (as played by Víkingur Ólafsson) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Method - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1167524

The Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D major, K. 382 is a set of concert variations scored for piano and orchestra that was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was intended by Mozart to be a substitute finale to his Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major.

For his latest album, Ólafsson presents some of his favourite Mozart keyboard works in the company of pieces by a selection of the composer’s leading contemporaries. 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: a resourceful, hard-working adult who had come to know adversity. All is artfully brought together by Ólafsson’s signature thought-provoking programming.

Ólafsson comments: "I find this decade of Mozart’s 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 Classical tradition but subtly subverting it… the shadows are darker, the nuances and ambiguities more profound."

Víkingur Ólafsson – Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 485 Listen to 'Mozart': https://dg.lnk.to/olafsson-mozart

Advanced Intermediate.
Format; Concert, 9 x 12 inches.
16 pages.