Mitsuko Uchida's greatest hits? Essentially. Everything Uchida does well is on this pair of discs, starting with her forceful interpretations of Mozart's demonic Piano Sonata in A minor and his Sturm und Drang Piano Concerto in D minor and moving through her brilliantly played Debussy's etudes, her charmingly personable Schumann Carnaval, her terrifyingly virtuosic Beethoven Variations in C minor, her delicately colored Schubert, and ending with her almost inaudible Schoenberg. But Mitsuko Uchida's greatest hits? ...
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Mitsuko Uchida's greatest hits? Essentially. Everything Uchida does well is on this pair of discs, starting with her forceful interpretations of Mozart's demonic Piano Sonata in A minor and his Sturm und Drang Piano Concerto in D minor and moving through her brilliantly played Debussy's etudes, her charmingly personable Schumann Carnaval, her terrifyingly virtuosic Beethoven Variations in C minor, her delicately colored Schubert, and ending with her almost inaudible Schoenberg. But Mitsuko Uchida's greatest hits? Essentially. Prompted by Uchida's year-long sabbatical from the concert stage, Philips put together what in another genre would be called a greatest-hits package, with a photograph on the front cover by Annie Leibovitz, three pages of adoring liner notes, and photographs of Uchida as a child at the keyboard. Could anyone imagine Glenn Gould allowing this to happen to him? Could anyone imagine Deutsche Grammophon thinking this was a good way to present Maurizio Pollini? But like most...
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