The bet of lightness. This is how we could define the last opus by Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, dedicated to Mozart and his contemporaries. Its conceptual pose on the jacket, black feather in hand, all in games of mirrors and contrasts, seems to set the tone: that of an album with childish exterior, but the underlying depth. Aerial in its essence. Elegant and skilfully architectured in its realization. We find a succession of short pieces, signed by the genius of Salzburg, but also by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Baldassare Galuppi, Domenico Cimarosa or Joseph Haydn. Brushing the portrait of a two-sided Mozart: both elegiac and profound.
“Different from the one we always imagine, frozen in his portrait of a former child prodigy.
Because what makes Mozart is not his precocious genius but the last ten years of his life. "
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