{"id":82541,"date":"2022-02-22T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=82541"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:12:22","slug":"john-pitman-review-vikingur-olafsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/john-pitman-review-vikingur-olafsson\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson explores Mozart &#038; Contemporaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his newest recording for Deutsche Grammophon (released September, 2021), Icelandic pianist <strong>V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson<\/strong> explores Mozart\u2019s music in the context of composers who came before him and who helped Mozart shape his distinctive and immediately recognizable style. \u00d3lafsson speaks with program director John Pitman about how he made connections between Mozart and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, as well as important composers of Mozart\u2019s time who aren\u2019t so well known today, such as Baldassare Galuppi, whom \u00d3lafsson regards as a very important and forward-thinking composer of the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>Hear his conversation with All Classical Portland&#8217;s Program Director <strong>John Pitman<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-btn\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mozart-Contemporaries-V%C2%A1kingur-Olafsson\/dp\/B096ZWJV8L\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2586KU8CCQY47&#038;keywords=vikingur+olafsson+Mozart&#038;qid=1645055953&#038;s=music&#038;sprefix=vikingur+olafsson+mozart%2Cclassical%2C109&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy the CD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his newest recording for Deutsche Grammophon (released September, 2021), Icelandic pianist V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson explores Mozart\u2019s music in the context of composers who came before him and who helped Mozart shape his distinctive and immediately recognizable style. \u00d3lafsson speaks with program director John Pitman about how he made connections between Mozart and Carl Philipp Emanuel &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":82543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:37:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110011,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82541\/revisions\/110011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}