THE NEW YORK TIMES (Adam Baer)
“Online Music Virtuosity”
February 1, 2001

“Pianist Petronel Malan, a South African graduate of the doctoral program at the University of North Texas, offers a Prelude and Fugue … and Ravel’s devilishly disturbed portrait of fin de siecle ballroom grandeur, “La Valse.”
… Malan’s talents lie in hr ability to control music that is inherently mischievous. Both Bach and Ravel are voiced with expert evenness and with functional musical contours – sound-shapes made from inflecting a collection of notes in one particular way or another – that allow ideas deep in the score to surface. Her finger work in the Ravel is meticulous, as is the tonal clarity in Malan’s delineation of voice in Bach’s musical puzzles.”