Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in C major, K503, arranged for solo piano and three accompanying instruments by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
hrsg. v. Leonardo Miucci

Launton nr. Bicester 2015, Edition HH, Partitur und Stimmen
ISBN 979 0 708041 83 2

Here, for the first time in modern edition, is the third in our series of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s superb arrangements of seven of Mozart’s piano concertos, the Concerto in C major, K503. Any performer of Mozart’s piano concertos must have wondered how the sparsely notated sections would have been realized at the time, and no one is better placed to provide an answer than the composer’s own pupil.
Most notable with regard to performance practice are Hummel’s efforts to complete Mozart’s text in line with standard 18th-century convention, in passages where the original notation is sparse, or at least not fully comprehensive. His realizations, for example, shed light on such problematic questions as improvised embellishment and the treatment of Eingänge (lead-ins).   Hummel conceived the keyboard part in such a way that it could be performed even without the accompaniment of the other three instruments.