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Uchida; Mitsuko
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Mitsuko Uchida’s Diabelli Variations
In a 1970 overview of Beethoven Diabelli Variations recordings, my late colleague Harris Goldsmith divided the performances into three basic categories: One strives for large-scale…
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Mitsuko Uchida’s Second Beethoven Concerto Cycle
Mitsuko Uchida’s slightly-under-the-radar cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the artless Kurt Sanderling (Philips/Decca) is one of my favorites…
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Big Boxes: DG’s Excellent Debussy (not complete) Edition
This is not the recent DG Complete (not) Edition, but […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…
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Insightful Schumann From Mitsuko Uchida
If Mitsuko Uchida’s latest foray into Schumann strikes certain listeners as micromanaged, italicized, and arch, it must be said that nearly everything she does has…
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Beethoven: Emperor/Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida and Kurt Sanderling’s Beethoven cycle reaches its apex with an “Emperor” concerto that ranks with Schnabel, Solomon, Kempff, Arrau, Fleisher, and Gieseking among…
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Beethoven: Piano sonatas Op. 101 & 106/Uchida
You might imagine how well the textural transparency and carefully gauged inner voices in the first movement of Beethoven’s Op. 101 sonata would sound via…
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Debussy: Etudes Books 1 & 2
Collectors may want to know how Philips’ latest incarnation of Mitsuko Uchida’s 1989 Debussy Etudes differs from earlier CD issues. A 2001 reissue in Philips’…
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Schoenberg, Berg, Webern piano works/Uchida
A potent fusion of intellectual severity and technical finesse brings rare distinction to Mitsuko Uchida’s new Philips survey of key Second Viennese School piano works.…
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Mozart: Piano/Violin Sonatas/Uchida, Steinberg
If I had to describe the photograph on this CD booklet’s front, it would appear that violinist Mark Steinberg and pianist Mitsuko Uchida had just…
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin/Bostridge
If you love Ian Bostridge in German lied, you can stop reading here. Go out, buy the disc, and enjoy. But I, and the handful…
