![]() I presume this is what we heard here there were certainly numerous, delightful departures from Mozart’s letter in something akin to Busoni’s – and, I think, our twenty-first century pianists’ – spirit. Where London had heard the F minor Fantasia and Berlin the Sonata for Two Pianos, London 101 years later was treated to both.Īccording to Erinn Knyt’s informative note, Edward Dent and Jürgen Kindermann refer to an arrangement of the Sonata, but all that survives is a ‘marked up performance score with numerous annotations and suggested textual alterations,’ and a ‘cadenza handwritten in the back of the score’. Here was a splendid recreation – reconstruction suggests something far too dry – of two concerts Busoni and Egon Petri gave in London (in this very hall) and in Berlin’s Beethoven-Saal in 19 respectively. Joined by the equally outstanding Zoltán Fejérvári, Gerstein offered us a two-piano recital that will linger long in the memories of those who heard it. It was only fitting, then, that in the last of Kirill Gerstein’s Wigmore Hall series, we should be treated to a combination of the two, alongside the inevitable Bach. ![]() Mozart ran like a golden thread through Busoni’s life and music - though, as for many composers, Schoenberg included, he only became more important as time went on. Mozart-Busoni – Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, KV 608 Mozart – Sonata in D major for two pianos, KV 448/375 aīusoni – Improvisation on JS Bach’s Chorale ‘Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele’, BV 271 Duettino concertante after the finale of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.19 in F major, KV 459, BV B 88 Fantasia contrappuntistica for two pianos, BV 256 b (MB) Kirill Gerstein and Zoltán Fejérvári United Kingdom Mozart and Busoni: Kirill Gerstein, Zoltán Fejérvári (pianos).
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