"Transfigured Mozart?" Yes, indeed, transfigured Mozart. Eschewing either original works or the best-known arrangements, South African pianist Petronel Malan has chosen transcriptions which radically transform, nay, transfigure Mozart's music. From Johann Nepomuk Hummel's brilliantly post-Classical "Fantasina on a theme of Figaro" through Sigismund Thalberg's austerely reverential "Larcrimose tiré du Requiem de Mozart" to Reger's massively virtuostic "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by W. A. Mozart" -- the theme, by the way ...
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"Transfigured Mozart?" Yes, indeed, transfigured Mozart. Eschewing either original works or the best-known arrangements, South African pianist Petronel Malan has chosen transcriptions which radically transform, nay, transfigure Mozart's music. From Johann Nepomuk Hummel's brilliantly post-Classical "Fantasina on a theme of Figaro" through Sigismund Thalberg's austerely reverential "Larcrimose tiré du Requiem de Mozart" to Reger's massively virtuostic "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by W. A. Mozart" -- the theme, by the way, is Mozart's theme for the set of variations that open his famous A major Piano Sonata -- Malan has unearthed works which allow us to hear Mozart with wholly new ears. And in every case, Malan performs them with commanding technique -- no easy thing in Reger's gnarly fugue -- comprehensive tone (everything from the most hushed pianissimo to the thickest textures sings with full-throated ease), and unstinting generosity; Joachim Raff's "Souvenirs de Don Giovanni" may not be the...
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