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Vikingur Olafsson - Mozart & Contemporaries wins 'Limelight Instrumental Recording of 2021'

Posted: November 29, 2021
Limelight writes.....The votes are in, the judges have spoken, and the winner is...Over the past two months, Limelight's panel of critics has been busy scrutinising the 50 outstanding recordings that made the not-­so-­shortlist for our 2021 Recording of the Year.
 
Mozart & Contemporaries from Víkingur Ólafsson is the shimmering follow-up to last year's award-­winning coupling of Debussy and Rameau (DG 4860525). Rebecca Franks awarded it five stars, declaring, "it bears all the now-­familiar Ólafsson hallmarks: that distinctive sound; those imaginative programming touches; the sense that the music is both timeless and freshly minted."
 
"Ólafsson sounds utterly at home and natural in the studio. There's warmth and clarity in the recording that allows his playing to flourish; the tone is almost plain, yet deceptively so, as the result is beautiful and intimate .?.?. This unmissable recording ends with Liszt. Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus is not only transcribed, but transformed and transfigured. This is music that points to the heavens and the stars."
 
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